Quote by Omar Khayyám

“Chaol reached the dark, silent gardens and strode between the hedges. He’d kill any man who hurt Celaena; and if the king ever gave…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Then there was the church and the villagers on the sidewalks, the red geraniums on the graves in the cemetery, Perez fainting (he crumpled…

— Albert Camus

“You are nothing more than a coward. So Celaena didn’t get out of bed that day. And she didn’t get out of it the…

— Sarah J. Maas

“Dredging up some semblance of annoyance, Celaena stuck out her tongue. At the guards, at the market, at the hawk on the nearby chimney,…

— Sarah J. Maas

“is not just any bint,” he said. “This is a philosopher-queen, a sultana . . .”

— G. Willow Wilson

“They sat for several hours over a pot of tea and a plate of cake, and then they wandered the streets, impervious to time.…

— Penelope Lively

“And what was to become of what he had taken from her? He had dashed her heart to the ground and danced on it…

— V.S. Carnes

“At such moments I would stand up and go to the bay window, where Lemon the canary was slowly aging in his cage, and…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The hours passed by in a series of clanking glasses and perfect card suites, group singing sessions and tales of lands far and near,…

— Sarah J. Maas

“He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the calls of the…

— Joy Williams

“You should pay more attention to the caravan," the boy said to the Englishman, after the camel driver had left. "We make a lot…

— Paulo Coelho

“Colonel da Silva was particularly upset. All the trouble he had taken to lead the crows astray had come to nothing. He felt he…

— Eva Ibbotson