#ka

Do you like my working persona?" Saiman asked softly. "An aesthetically pleasing combination of intelligence and elegance, wouldn't you say?" Aren't we pleased with ourselves. "Are you Chinese, Japanese, half-white? I can't tell, your features are neither here nor there." "I'm inscrutable, mysterious and intellectual." He forgot conceited. "Did you have any trouble getting that ego through the door?" Saiman didn't even blink. "Not in the least. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#saiman #intelligence

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#intelligence #kassam #noetics #philosophy #intelligence

Finally, Dageus finished, and she heard Gwen and Chloe say simultaneously, breathlessly, "Oh, my God." Gabby opened her eyes. Drustan had risen to his feet and was scowling, an expression mirrored by his twin. Both were glaring at Adam--whom they obviously could now see. Then at their wives, then back at Adam. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#chloe #dageus #drustan #gabby #gwen

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering? ↗

— John Green

#life

You are my heart, my life, my entire existence." -Ash ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#iron-fey-trilogy #julie-kagawa #love #life

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously - ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#olga-lednichenko #life

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#last-sacrifice #life #richelle-mead #sonya-karp #vampire-academy

One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror. ↗