Contrary to what you may think, when O’Sah told me about kytaen, that I’d be meeting one, I didn’t picture a pet or a lackey to follow me. I didn’t think of a prisoner. I… I pictured an ally, a friend, OK?


Giselle Simlett

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them eithe...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS
I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreci...
JESSICA MARIA TUCCELLI
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ...
JOHN LENNON
I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you’d live to be a hundred years old. I didn...
KHALED HOSSEINI
If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?
YUNUS EMRE
When I told you that I’d pray for you, what did you think I was talking about?
NICHOLAS SPARKS
A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE
I didn’t wake up this morning worrying about what protest color I’d wear, or what the world woul...
TOMI LAHREN
I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn�...
KURT VONNEGUT JR.
We were meat to be bought and sold. Speaking Arabic made me a curious and unusual product. I didn’...
RICHARD ENGEL
I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry,...
SYLVIA PLATH
I think life is a chain of events.
ZARA LARSSON
We didn’t have a vacuum or dishwasher. When I told my mother we didn’t have a washing machine, i...
LINDA LEAMING
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS
As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE
You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE
Maybe he was too drunk to hear me when I told him to stop. Maybe I didn’t say it loudly enough. Ma...
AMY HATVANY
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Yuki: "What can I learn from a stupid cat like you? You didn’t even know that Jason isn’t really...
NATSUKI TAKAYA
As I’d observed, it was clear that Rose was willing to do anything and fight anyone to protect her...
RICHELLE MEAD
And so, on a night in late May, I found myself standing on the lawn of a Hyde Park mansion of vampir...
CHLOE NEILL
Yes, their reasons are overwhelming. They are as big as hope and as deep as revolt. They are the rea...
ALBERT CAMUS
…A city deprived of everything, devoid of light and devoid of heat, starved, and still not crushed...
ALBERT CAMUS
Words always take on the color of the deeds or sacrifices they evoke.
ALBERT CAMUS
Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER
I had a kid a couple years ago that sent me several pictures of his pet lizards. It's really weird w...
DAMON FUGETT
I think my anorexia was to do with being a teenager, not being in films.
CHRISTINA RICCI
Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER
My name is Cammie!” I didn’t think about all the people I could have woken, all the alarms that ...
ALLY CARTER
... I think you gave me a pretty good picture of what happened that night.
JAVIER GARCIA
Grand illnesses are supposed to be life-clarifying. Instead, I knew I was going to die—but I’d k...
PAUL KALANITHI
I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want co...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around...
CHELSEA HANDLER
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.
RICKY GERVAIS
You knew, from the first day in Miss Garber’s class that I was going to do the play, didn’t you....
NICHOLAS SPARKS
Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS
She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER
I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind.
C LIONG
Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER
I didn’t realize that in his wish to transform me was the proof that he didn’t like me as I was,...
ELENA FERRANTE
You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.”
“It didn’t come ...
ILONA ANDREWS
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
You're not a man. You're their lackey. I don't care about you, or your brother, or your ridic...
LIBBA BRAY
He looked at her in bittersweet despair. “Sometimes, Kate, when I’m inside you and your arms are...
SHELBY REED
A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD
This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, w...
ALBERT CAMUS
And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy s...
ALBERT CAMUS
And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. ...
ALBERT CAMUS
You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything ...
ALBERT CAMUS
The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than t...
ALBERT CAMUS
…Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of o...
ALBERT CAMUS
For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every...
ALBERT CAMUS
In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are dis...
ALBERT CAMUS
You just were so cold with me. And the nurse’s outfit didn’t seem to make any kind of impression...
SARAH ALDERSON
I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want co...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by t...
JOHN PIPER
I think it was a good thing that Joanie and Chachi married.
ERIN MORAN
That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background,...
DANA MICHELLE BURNETT
My fear for you outweighs my fear of him,” he said simply. “And I told you, didn’t I? If you l...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
Gypsy aren't only poor, but they are brutal and not so nice people. World has smashed them, that the...
DEYTH BANGER
In a cornball way, I think being a celebrity is about making a difference, too.
DAVID HASSELHOFF
I’ll always be broken,” I went on. “Because when I came here, no one fixed me. It’s not that...
TABITHA FREEMAN
My brothers nodded their heads in unison. All of them but me. It wasn’t okay. I didn’t want her ...
JAMIE MCGUIRE
People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL
You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me t...
BECKY G
I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.
EMERAUDE TOUBIA
Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata...
HUSEYN RAZA
Chubs didn’t have to finish. I knew what I’d been when I’d found them: a terrified splinter of...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN
I could’ve sworn I was telling the truth when I told you I didn’t miss you.
PLEASEFINDTHIS
Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conv...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
People who don't Think probably don't have Brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into th...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems ...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
When late morning rolls around and you're feeling a bit out of sorts, don't worry; you're probably j...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
When having a smackerel of something with a friend, don't eat so much that you get stuck in the door...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy wor...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slo...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to the...
, INSPIRED BY A. A. MILNE
Is that what you think I am? All this time, and you still haven’t sorted it out? Why am I surprise...
SUSAN DENNARD
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Edgar asked me, 'Do you know anything about John Lennon,' ... I said, 'I know everything about John ...
DON SCARDINO
I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so muc...
KATHLEEN NORRIS
I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship...
SARAH HYLAND

More Giselle Simlett

No. You see, the night works differently here than in the human realm,’ he continues. ‘Duwyn is ...
GISELLE SIMLETT
The IOC has provisionally suspended the athlete for a disciplinary issue.
GISELLE DAVIES
It's due to general judging issues that remain unresolved since the Athens Olympics.
GISELLE DAVIES
We're used to campaign groups using the Olympics as a platform for their campaigns. The IOC is not a...
GISELLE DAVIES
If the IOC finds them guilty of a doping violation they would be declared ineligible for the Games.
GISELLE DAVIES
Yes, the IOC could still take sanctions.
GISELLE DAVIES
The IOC will follow the procedure to remove the athletes' accreditations.
GISELLE DAVIES
We thank him for his work and hope the leadership issue will be swiftly resolved.
GISELLE DAVIES
the issues currently remain outstanding.
GISELLE DAVIES
There was a general observation in Athens that things needed to be improved.
GISELLE DAVIES
We respect the CAS decision. The IOC had acted at the time based on advice from WADA that the substa...
GISELLE DAVIES
We respect the CAS decision. The IOC had acted at the time based on advice from WADA that the substa...
GISELLE DAVIES
This is not a new issue. This has been on the table since the host city contract was signed nearly s...
GISELLE DAVIES
The IOC will continue with its procedures on Monday,
GISELLE DAVIES
when life gives you lemon, take it. don't waste food
GISELLE MARQUEZ
What I 'd like first is someone to raise them with, someone who will look at me and say, 'that one. ...
GISELLE ELLIS