City-state Quote by Andrew Ashling Download Open image ““Naodyma isn’t exactly a one-temple town, you know.”” — Andrew Ashling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare City-state Small towns Temples
“There are temples to a variety of gods all over the world, but hers is the only one where I care to worship.” — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“...a temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.” — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Home is in here [tapping temple]. Where you live is just a geographical preference.” — Lemmy Kilmister Copy Share Image
“Temples are for the gods,” Thucydides said. “No city has the hubris to put her own citizens on a temple.” Phidias promised, “The Athenians… — Yvonne Korshak Copy Share Image
“You do realize that Nowhere is a pretty stupid name for a city.” — Amos T. Fairchild Copy Share Image
“God is a slick god. Temple Knows. She knows because of all the crackerjack miracles still to be seen on this ruined globe.” — Alden Bell Copy Share Image
“One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“The simple truth is that you can understand a town. You can know and love and hate it. You can blame it, resent it,… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
“Your explanation is good, but your herring doesn't fry, as we say in Ramaldah," he exploded.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Of course he was afraid of war. Only fools are not. Anaxantis was no fool. He was fully prepared to fight, but only as… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them,”… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Davellon may be a village, but the Davellon House can be anything you make it. Nobility has to start somewhere. It might as well… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Why, Andrew, why would it irritate me? Do you think that being loved by you is something to be ashamed of? I don't.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Hey," Anaxantis protested. "Oh," he added, when the Muktar prince took his member in his mouth. "Oh... that's what you meant by servicing." He… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Damn you, Anaxantis. You and your brother were supposed to sit on your princely asses, organize the occasional banquet, use your high sounding titles… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“Deal with all this, live with myself, you mean? I honestly don't know. I stand often enough at the abyss of my soul, asking that same question, looking down into the dark crevices where the black monsters dwell on the bottom. They gaze up at me, and I look them in the eyes. “This also you are,” they say, and… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share
“Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot who are… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“War, they say, is the answer of those who have no arguments left.” — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't worry about it too much, son. Certainly not about the peasants and the servants. They don't feel things as we do.” “They're human.” “Barely. They might as well be another species. What would happen without us to keep them in check? They wouldn't work the land. They would be at each other's throat if we weren't there to… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share
“But you didn’t mention Orrigar I, the first king of the House of Chaldarina. He put an end to years of unrest and civil strife. Neither did you mention Ronnick II, the one who reformed the monetary system and forbade the Great Houses to mint their own coins, thus stabilizing our currency. At the time it saved Ximerion from going… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share
“But no city-state ever solved the problem of incorporating new territories and new populations into its existing structure, or involving really large numbers of… — Joseph Reese Strayer Copy Share Image