Failure is a price of entry.

Anonymous

"Gold", sagt der Mann. "Gold und Reichtümer. Das ist die Antwort auf fast alle wichtigen Fragen, die du dir im Leben stellen wirst und die mit warum beginnen." Er schließt die Augen. "Die zweite Antwort ist Liebe."

Ursula Poznanski, Erebos 2

A good game is easy to learn but hard to master.

Nolan Bushnell

"Get to sleep. You've got a big day tomorrow."
"Thanks! That's sure to help me wind down."
"I'll meet you at the altar."
"I'll be the one in white." I smiled at how perfectly blasé I sounded.

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, Bella and Edward

Wer die Gegenwart wahrnimmt, dem offenbart sich oft auch die Zukunft.

Ursula Poznanski, Erebos 2, Idmon

He cradled our hands to his chest; I could feel his heart beat under my palm, and I guessed that he hadn't placed my hand there accidentally.
"I don't know if I get more than just this one dance," he said, and he began pulling me around in a slow circle that didn't match the tempo of the music coming from behind us ...
We moved to the rhythm of his heart under my hand.

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, Bella and Jacob

Sarius kämpft jetzt viel mehr mit sich selbst als gegen Bloodwork. Was auf dem Spiel steht, weiß er. Für alle Beteiligten. Er weiß auch, dass er gut darin ist, Auswege zu finden. Dass er Freunde hat, die auf seiner Seite stehen. Er ahnt bereits jetzt, dass er sie bereuen wird, aber er trifft eine Entscheidung.
Vor dem nächten Axthieb weicht er einen Wimpernschlag zu spät zurück, die Schneide gräbt sich tief in seine Hüfte, der Verletzungston setzt mit ungeahnter Heftigkeit ein. Sarius taumelt nach hinten.

Ursula Poznanski, Erebos 2, Sarius gegen BloodWork

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us..."

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

Wer starke Verbündete hat, ist selbst stark.

Ursula Poznanski, Erebos 2

He froze. Then he lifted his face from mine and glared at his favourite sister. "You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating."

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, Edward to Alice

Die Zeit ist mein unerbittlichster Feind.

Ursula Poznanski, Erebos 2

"She was thinking what I think she was thinking, wasn't she?" I muttered. He laughed at my convoluted sentence. "Yes."

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn

Schweigen ist Silber, Reden ist Tod
Die Wahrheit ein scharfes Schwert
Und der, den es zu treffen droht,
Weiß gut, wie man sich wehrt.
Für eine Fee eine ganze Armee,
Gewissheit für die Toten,
Wer viel riskiert und nicht verliert,
Dem ist auch nichts verboten.

Ursula Poznanski, Erebos 2

'... He deserves death.'
'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.'

J. R. R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings

And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Life sucks, and then you die.

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, the perfect beginning of the book two (about Jacob)

It was like fate was out to make me do everything I'd ever sworn I wouldn't in the course of twenty-four hours. Here I was, hanging around, waiting for her to die.

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, Jacob

Maybe the planet had started turning backward. Maybe that would explain how everything was the opposite of what it had been yesterday - how I could be hoping for what had once seemed like the very worst thing in the world.

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, Jacob

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.

Miyamoto Musashi

That's the funny thing about knowing you can't have something. It makes you desperate.

Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn, Jacob