#niko

How the hell was she going to fight them? With style. She could almost hear Niko's voice. She grinned, despite herself. Do try not to die, won't you? That was Tyler. It would have been followed by a delicate yawn. And Oz: Keep your head down and don't be stupid. Lise: Bitch, do not even think about leaving me alone with all this testosterone. Giselle: You can't win if you die, so suck it up. Tutresiel: Princess, you aren't even trying if you're dying. And Alexander: Come home. ↗

— Diana Pharaoh Francis

#lise #max #niko #oz #tutresiel-alexander

We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#literature #nikolai-gogol #russian-literature #inspirational

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. ↗

— Nikolai Gogol

#heroes #laughter #life #nikolai #tears

Life [had] replaced logic. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#life-of-meaning #raskolnikov #resurrection #life

Daja doesn't exactly need to be tested on whether she's honorable or not." "Doesn't she? Don't all of you? This is your first taste of the things which may come from your being powerful mages. People will offer you gold, status, even love. I want to know how you will react. If want to know if your teachers will release greedy, thoughtless monsters into the world. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#consequences #niko #sandry #testing #love

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#marriage #nikola-tesla #passion #marriage

We all have our security blankets in this world. Some are just sharper than others. ↗

— Rob Thurman

#leandros #niko #security

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more ↗

— Nikola Tesla

#virtue

Rosethorn had gone to her room the moment Niko started to cough. Now she returned with her syrup and a firm look in her eye. "I thought you were having trouble last night. Drink this." She poured some into a cup and held it out to him. Niko looked at it as if she offered him rotten fish. "I am fine. I am per-" He couldn't even finish the sentence for coughing. "It's not bad," said Tris, crossing her fingers behind her back. "Really, tastes like-like mangoes." Niko looked at her, then took the cup and downed its contents. The four watched with interest as his cheeks turned pale, then scarlet. "That's terrible (exclamation point)" he cried, his voice a thin squeak. "Maybe I was thinking of some other syrup," Tris remarked with a straight face. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#niko #tris #contentment

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can. ↗

— Rob Thurman

#niko #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy