September 5, 2008

Guess what?

Filed under: Books, In English, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 3:45 pm

Yet another quote from a Robin Hobb-book! But this one will be the last one for a while:

‘It’s that - no matter how far you go back, someone took the land from someone else. I don’t think anything can be solved by trying to work out who stole it first. The solution is in the future, Epiny, not the past.’

from Renegade’s Magic (page 183), book three of The Soldier Son Trilogy.

Read other posts where I quoted Robin Hobb here and here.

September 4, 2008

Veronika decides to die

Filed under: Books, In English, Quotes, Text only — Sigrinn @ 5:00 pm

This time you’ll have a qoute from Paulo Coelho’s book Veronika decides to die:

‘… You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.’
‘Is wanting to be different a serious illness?’
‘It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else: it causes neuroses, psychoses and paranoia…’

(page 153)

August 20, 2008

More Robin Hobb

Filed under: Books, In English, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 10:44 pm

“It was as if he believed that if we took their culture away from them, they’d instantly convert to thinking like Gernians. As if our way of seeing the world were the only real one, and that anyone, given the opportunity, would think like we do.”

from the book Forest Mage (p. 782), book two in The Soldier Son trilogy by Robin Hobb

Read another qoute from this book.

August 14, 2008

Jag lÀser Robin Hobb

Filed under: Books, Ego, In English, In Swedish/PĂ„ svenska, Quotes — Sigrinn @ 10:55 am

Ligger förkyld efter jobbvecka som lÀgerledare. DÄ passar jag pÄ att lÀsa:

“Do you believe that Gernians are the most important people in the world? Or do you think so only because you were born one? If you’d been born anywhere else, would you still think that you had a duty to protect the interest of Gernia, no matter what it cost other people?”

hÀmtat frÄn boken Forest Mage (sid. 370), bok tvÄ i The Soldier Son trilogin av Robin Hobb (hon har en mysig hemsida, ta en titt pÄ den hÀr)

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