"There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been……" — Vivian Vande Velde
"There, close enough to spit on--if I'd been a barbarian and inclined to spit--was the dragon."
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Vivian Vande Velde
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13 Quotes by Vivian Vande Velde
Vivian Vande Velde has 13 quotes on this site.
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Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.
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A [reformed] vampire ... mostly tries to make reparation for his previous evil by doing good deeds-most commonly, apparently, going…
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If you don't like vampire games, don't play
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Then, early, early, early in the morning-just as in countless Disney films-I heard a rooster crow. But guess what? They…
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People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor…
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if Saint Bruce doesn't like your poem, he chops your head off.
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Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?
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They'd poisoned me, dammit. Probably to trade my dead body to the barbarians for Wulfgar's safe return. Or maybe just…
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She sighed. Loudly. "Physical appearance is not what is important." Yeah right. Tell that to any girl who hasn't bothered…
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Those Grimm brothers," she said with a sigh, "they'll never amount to anything." And she was right because all they…
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The wolf sniffed beneath the door to be sure this was a human cottage. The scent was undeniable. No pigs,…
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Mothers are legendary for being able to read the thoughts of their children at just the right moment.
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More Barbarian Quotes
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As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
— Jack Abramoff
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Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other…
— Alexander the Great
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...while science gives us implements to use, science alone does not determine for what ends they will be employed. Radio…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on…
— John Shelby Spong
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his…
— Lord Acton
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It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really…
— William Dean Howells
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a…
— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
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The idea of imposing universal peace on the world by force is a barbarian fantasy.
— Garet Garrett
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In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the…
— Unknown Author
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Every virile people has established colonial power. All great nations in the fullness of their strength have desired to set…
— Heinrich von Treitschke
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The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is…
— William Gilmore Simms
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