#of

He's got courage," Alex said. "Courage!" Raoul bellowed. "That coward almost kills him and-- ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#alex #anger #courage #raoul-of-goldenlake #anger

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take. ↗

— Christine E. Schulze

#adventuresome-women #ashlei #choice #coming-of-age #equal

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#ask #butter #daddy #daughter #face

You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you. ↗

— Harvey Keitel

#dear #experience #father #profundity #protect

I don't practice, but I am still officially in paediatrics. I keep in touch with journals, and I have a very good data bank of medical information and there is a key thing for a writer knowing where to go. I know where to go to get the information that I need. ↗

— Jonathan Kellerman

#bank #data #get #go #good

I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people. ↗

— Jack Kelley

#being #being in love #different #different kinds #get

I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#best #bring #challenging #child #could

It's not the scar and it's abso-freakin-lutely not you." I dropped my hand. "Yeah, right." I sagged against him a little. For being as little as he is, Frankie's really solid. "It's never me." I felt his sigh against my shoulder blades. ↗

— Melissa Jensen

#the-fine-art-of-truth-or-dare #art

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here? ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#any #crime #doing #end #first

The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck. ↗

— Bob Seger

#gotta #great #heck #hours #i