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Gold for The Time Slipsters
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But what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav...
TERRY PRATCHETT One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth, five for silver, six for gold,...
CASSANDRA CLARE The sunlight in the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its ...
LOUIS MACNEICE gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' ...
TERRY PRATCHETT When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M Silver hidden in the gold,
Young man hidden in the old,
Laughing lord with weeping eyes, MARGARET LOVETT Black for hunting through the night
For death and sorrow, the color’s white
Gold for a b...
CASSANDRA CLARE This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent g...
W.H. DAVIES Black for hunting through the night

For death and mourning the color's white

G...
CASSANDRA CLARE Where the blue of the night
Meets the gold of the day,
Someone waits for me.
BING CROSBY Seventeen moons, seventeen years,
Eyes where Dark or Light appears,
Gold for yes and green...
KAMI GARCIA Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonight
Sparkling for moon's spiced silver bite
Upon skin o...
MUNIA KHAN I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.

- Coloured Money
MERVYN PEAKE Violet
232 books | 49 friends
see comment history Black for hunting through the night
CASSANDRA CLARE "I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
...
ALLAMA IQBAL Good folk, I have no coin,
To take were to purloin:
I have no copper in my purse,
I h...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.
(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan)
MICHAEL PRYOR The Sunlight on the Garden

The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
W...
LOUIS MACNEICE Stop settling for silver and go after the gold.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER (Sharon) said
the whole country stopped for two hours at noon when the racing starts, ... Ever...
GAL FRIDMAN Tyson, the fleece. Can you get it for me?'
'Which one?' Tyson said, looking around at the hundr...
RICK RIORDAN And what went wrong when other alchemists tried to make gold and were unable to do so?"

"...
PAULO COELHO Closed eyes
can't sacrifice
a third time
i may never know
A dreamer's dream
GREG C WARNER There were three things sought by invaders who crossed
oceans to discover America. Those were ...
TOBA BETA For strangely graven
Is the orb of life, that one and another
In gold and power may outp...
EURIPIDES LADY BRACKNELL

I had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entire...
OSCAR WILDE We too can repair our cracks with gold
And glow again.
Crazed by life,
More beautiful...
SCOTT HASTIE I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his ho...
MARGUERITE OGDEN BIGELOW WILKINSON – Here, take this. It'll give you a boost.
– You spent 90 gold on this??
– 90 gold...
CORY DOCTOROW Far over the misty mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Whilst the wolflets bayed,
A grave was made,
And then with the strokes of a silver spade...
ROMAN PAYNE A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,
Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates...
E.E. KNIGHT What's it going to take for you to open that door? Gold? Blood?"

"Your name and password....
MARK LAWRENCE The order was obeyed and when [the Greek general] saw gold and silver couches all beautifully draped...
HERODOTUS Life is the muse which perfectly rhymes,
Plays with the words and fills empty lines.

NINO VARSIMASHVILI RICHER THAN GOLD
You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. STRICKLAND GILLILAN Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros past
did and history have written their names i...
IKECHUKWU JOSEPH I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
Is it fair go...
CELIA THAXTER WINTER'S GHOST:
Autumn moon
incautious in the dark river
Winter’s ghost walks
...
TAMARA RENDELL Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But...
ROBERT FROST Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
H...
ADHISH MAZUMDER My child, I know you're not a child
But I still see you running wild
Between those floweri...
ANTONIA MICHAELIS The wife yearns for gold and silver, and her friends, the senses, yearn for good food.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Love has not a value,
though we treasure it dear,
it's worth more than gold,
that's w...
ANTHONY T HINCKS His gold eyes grew very soft. “You said you loved me.”
“You knew that already,” I remin...
STEPHENIE MEYER So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost
JOHN GREEN It's a gold
medal for all the people of Israel, ... We think
about the people who were t...
GAL FRIDMAN where do i find self love?'
you dig
dig until you find the gold
JENAI CHARLES Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye.

'I find today ...
JULIE ANNE LONG Let these men sing out their songs,
they've been walking all day long,
all their fortune's...
ROMAN PAYNE Ah God! to see the branches stir
Across the moon at Grantchester!
To smell the thrilling...
RUPERT BROOKE Do you want to improve the world?
I don't think it can be done.

The world is sacred....
LAO TZU Cal's attraction to her was unstoppable - undeniable. Like a thunderbolt piercing his heart, it beat...
NINI CHURCH THREE BASIC TRUTHS

Three things have a limited threshold:
Time, pain, and death. SUZY KASSEM All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told:
Many a man his life hath so...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE M-O-T-H-E-R
M is for the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T...
HOWARD JOHNSON Where’s our teacher?”
“Probably getting it on with the English teacher.”
- Alex ...
R.J. MORSE, R.J. BROOKES Under the Mountain dark and tall
The King has come unto his hall!
His foe is dead,
th...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The Weaver

My life is but a weaving
between my Lord and me;
I cannot choose the...
BENJAMIN MALACHI FRANKLIN I asked for wisdom...
And God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity...
And God...
ANON. Cold be hand and heart and bone,
and cold be sleep under stone:
never more to wake on ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN DEPARTURE

The horizon slopes away

The days are longer
Trip

A...
PIERRE REVERDY There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ernestine used to remark, in a tone tinged with envy, that Lill was probably New Jersey's youngest g...
FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. 2 SECONDS

He was on her in an instant to brace her against the wall. She kicked and clawe...
G.S. JENNSEN Dorian walked slowly back to his rooms, his heart racing. He could still feel her lips on his, smell...
SARAH J. MAAS Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.
ABERJHANI blue-gold sky, fresh cloud,
emerald-black mountain, trees
on rocky ledges,

o...
BARBARA BLATNER Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a vi...
ANNA AKHMATOVA Barter

Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
SARA TEASDALE Dark house, by which once more I stand
Here in the long unlovely street,
Doors, where my h...
ALFRED TENNYSON So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosed
In serpent, inmate bad! and toward Eve
Addressed h...
JOHN MILTON On Saturday evening, August 5, 2017, FAPA announced and presented awards to the 2017 medalists at th...
CAPTAIN HANK BRACKER, "SUPPRESED I RISE" The Wanderer

What is she like?
I was told—
she is a
melancholy soul.
LANG LEAV He says his gold medal glows, and his silver medal sparkles.
GEORGE BABICZ Living things don't all require
light in the same degree. Some of us
make our own light: a...
LOUISE GLüCK By the Valg, three were made,
Of the gate-Stone of the Wyrd:
Obsidian the gods forbade
SARAH J. MAAS If we could push ajar the gates of life,
And stand within, and all God's workings see,
We ...
MARY RILEY SMITH Some days I wake up
and all I feel
are the fractures
in the flesh
that covers TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.
And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in ...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS If you hate it... you close it!
If you can't do it... you don't do it...!
...

D...
DEYTH BANGER The middle son gets a magic donkey. When you shout the word: "Bricklebrit!", it spews gold pieces...
SARAH BETH DURST There will be time, there will be time

To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;...
T.S. ELIOT We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and...
BRIGHAM YOUNG History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Caged Bird

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind
and floats downstream ti...
MAYA ANGELOU The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of ...
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time...
DOUGLAS WOOD For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.
And then, she happened one more time in his...
NISHIKANT Give fools their gold, and knaves their power;
Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall;
Who sows...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Vespers

Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed,
Droops on the little hands little ...
A.A. MILNE Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, J.R.R. TOLKIEN Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of sto...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
UNKNOWN I caught a red bird once,
I fell in love with her,
Took the red bird home with me,
I...
QUETZAL There's a hard life for every silver spoon.
There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue. SHINEDOWN . . . Like ashes of gold in a cinnamon-flame,
My youthful desires have been burnt with the year...
HAORAN MENG

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TERRY PRATCHETT Don't worry, it's not loaded.
TERRY KATH Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.
TERRY PRATCHETT To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darknes...
TERRY PRATCHETT Famous I don't know about. It's hard to be famous and alive. I just want to play music every day and...
TERRY PRATCHETT No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...
TERRY PRATCHETT "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"<...
TERRY PRATCHETT Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended....
TERRY PRATCHETT Conceived as a short-term remedy to the occasional ailment of acute labour shortages in key industri...
TERRY GLAVIN When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people from other ...
TERRY BRADSHAW I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is grow...
TERRY PRATCHETT I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.
TERRY SOUTHERN As far back as Iran's aborted 'Green Revolution' in 2009, Obama's supplications to I...
TERRY GLAVIN A notorious network of violent Islamist hoodlums, concentrated in the rough-and-tumble district of M...
TERRY GLAVIN Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain...
TERRY SOUTHERN What used to be called 'good manners' is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a...
TERRY WOGAN Games are not so bad because the adrenalin keeps you going, but training on a daily basis when every...
JOHN TERRY I must have read every issue of 'Punch' published in the 20th century, and I think in the pr...
TERRY PRATCHETT Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what mig...
TERRY TEACHOUT Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.
TERRY PRATCHETT There was once a caustic comment from someone suggesting I was breeding a new race. Fans from differ...
TERRY PRATCHETT It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...
TERRY PRATCHETT It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimer's, and th...
TERRY PRATCHETT My parents spent an awful lot of money sending me to the best possible schools, and I came out of my...
TERRY WOGAN I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying...
TERRY BRANSTAD Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known.
TERRY GILLIAM Were I to be appointed Secretary of Education, I'd issue a prospectus for a compulsory nationwid...
TERRY TEACHOUT The First Amendment rights, everybody has them.
TERRY BRADSHAW Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, t...
TERRY GLAVIN I could've ended up in action films forever. But the comedy thing has been my forte.
TERRY CREWS The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, shoul...
TERRY EAGLETON Driving with one foot on the accelerator and the other on the brake is likely to get you nowhere, bu...
TERRY SAVAGE It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being o...
TERRY RILEY Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
TERRY RILEY By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that...
TERRY PRATCHETT My thing is you're only as good as the people you work with. I've been blessed to work with ...
TERRY CREWS When someone can, on a worldwide level, make someone laugh, that's power. A lot my heroes - Eddi...
TERRY CREWS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS