Best 31 quotes of Jennifer A. Nielsen on MyQuotes

And I want you to find something in the hills for the vigils to protect, like a rock or a thornbush. I don't want them around here.

And my stature never sank when I joined you. You may be a thief, but there is far more good in you than bad. I'm better off for knowing you.

Be loyal to the thing you know is right. Never bend to weakness, never yield to a false crown.

Courage isn't knowing you can do something; it's only being willing to try . . .

Erick had underestimated the distance, both to the ground and the cliff above me, yet the texture of the cliff wall was better than I'd hoped for. Vines and plants grew dense and well rooted, and there were many rocks and missing chunks of earth. I didn't know whether I could make it to the top on one leg or not, but I thought it was a great day to try.

How will it look to everyone at dinner if the servant who left with Amarinda fails to return?" "How will it look if that servant's bandages bleed through and he drips blood on Conner's dinning table?

If both Evendell and I survived this, we would have to discuss his timing when explosives were involved.

If I don't stand for freedom, then I must sit in chains.

I haven't don anything wrong." At least, not for a few hours

I loved everyone who's been taken from me. So don't tell me when I'm allowed to break.

I might have been the one in chains, but he was the one who looked afraid.

In the knowing, there was peace.

Is it true?" Devlin asked me. "You're Prince Jaron?" "KING Jaron, actually. News must travel slower amongst the illiterate." I glared at Gregor with every inch of disdain I felt. "Shouldn't you be groveling to me or bowing or something?" Gregor smiled. "I think before I have the chance, you will already be dead." "Ah. So much for all your toasts to my long life.

It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.

Nobody gives you respect in this life. You must take it, you must earn it, and then you must hold it sacred, because no matter how hard respect is to attain, it can be lost in an instant." I nodded my head toward the garrison. "Go get it, Roden. People won't follow a leader who doesn't know where he's going. Show them what you do.

No, it's real gold. I am real, Lord Kerwyn.

No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be." "Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?" "No." "Then you didn't even get a taste.

Once we were alone, Imogen unfolded her hand. In it, she held the key to the chains. I had passed it to her while we were in the embrace. Roden noticed it and scowled. "You gave her the key and not me? I could be free already." I smiled at him. "Yes, but I wasn't going to kiss you." "Fair enough

Our country is Germany -- one country that should be reunited. We don't belong to Moscow or to the west. We belong to ourselves and I have never betrayed that. This tunnel has taken every ounce of courage we have. We're not cowards.

Promise me that you will find happiness in life, Jaron. Don't give in to bitterness.

Roden wasn't convinced. "How big of a fuss will this require?" [Jaron] grinned. "Catastrophic levels of bad behavior Trust me, it'll be fun." "You have a sick idea of fun." Roden's cool expression seemed less than enthusiastic. "When we do this, will they hurt us?" That made me sigh. "You're the captain of my guard, aren't you? Surely you can take a few hits by now. Besides, the pain will be forgotten once the ropes go around our necks" "I don't want a rope going around my neck, Jaron! That's the part you need to figure out.

The most difficult time to be hungry is when the pangs first start. When the body realizes it's missed a meal and signals that it wants food. But after a while, it gives up asking; it gives up expecting anything. The will return, of course, and the hunger never goes away.

There was something you failed to understand about me. I never run!

Villains and plots and enemies are simple things to me. But friendships are complicated, and love is harder still. It has wounded me deeper than a sword ever could.

Was it possible for a king to run so far from his identity that he ceased to be anyone special? Because I had never felt lower, or less worthy of my title.

We all smiled, but not that much, and frowned but rarely cried. Nobody could succeed here, but most people around me seemed to be okay with that . It meant they wouldn't fail either. I didn't want to be like them. And at the same time, I was beginning to forget how to be different, how to be my own self. It was the feeling of being swallowed up, and I hated it.

Wherever our lives lead us, one thing is certain. You and I will always be connected. You might be able to deny that, but I can't. Even I am not that good a liar.

With a grin, I told her, "I'll have more than ten minutes' notice that this battle is coming. In that way, this might be the most prepared I've ever been.

With each brick, my hopes faded until nothing was left. If there had ever been a chance of Dominic and my father returning, then the wall took that too. My schoolteacher taught us a new song that thanked our leaders for building a wall to keep the fascists out. I muted my glares and only mouthed the words when my teacher was looking - I couldn't bear to sing the lies.

You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?" "Can you do it with your left?

You made the right choice," Roden whispered. "Though you did choose his name rather quickly. "He has a skinny neck. He'd have died faster." (Jaron) "That's why you chose me? Because it'll take me longer to die?" "Yes, Roden, that's exactly why." "Enough bickering!" (Vargan)