#ron

Chiron, I don't think the attic is the proper place for our new Oracle, do you?" "No, indeed." Chiron looked a lot better now that Apollo had worked some medical magic on him. "Rachel may use a guest room in the Big House for now, until we give the matter more thought." "I'm thinking a cave in the hills," Apollo mused. "With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#chiron #rachel-elizabeth-dare #mystery

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under! ↗

— Anne Frank

#strong #survival #weak #survival

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable. ↗

— Lionel Shriver

#infamy #right-and-wrong #fame

If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#care

The witchlight made his skin paler, his eyes more intently blue. They were the color of the water in the North Atlantic, where the ice drifted on its blue-black surface like the snow clinging to the dark glass pane of a window. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #color

We have got some very big problems confronting us and let us not make any mistake about it, human history in the future is fraught with tragedy ... It's only through people making a stand against that tragedy and being doggedly optimistic that we are going to win through. If you look at the plight of the human race it could well tip you into despair, so you have to be very strong. ↗

— Robert James Brown

#environmental-justice #nature #social-justice #nature

It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#right #wrong #eternity

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#manners #manners

Some people really need to be taught some manners," he said disdainfully. I stared up at him. "Would you really have gotten in a fight for me?" "Of course." He didn't hesitate. "But there were four of them." "Beth, I'd take on Megatron's army to protect you." "Who? ↗

— Alexandra Adornetto

#halo #megatron #protection #manners

If you have any care for Sin at all, don't leave him in darkness. It's not fair to show someone the sun and then to banish him from it. Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone - Acheron (Devil May Cry) ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#devil-may-cry #sun