Quotes of: Kansas-city Keyword

The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

A song and a smile from someone I cared about could be enough to distract me from all that darkness, if only for a little while.

Hollow City

What if there's no town for fifty kilometers?" Said Enoch. "The we'll walk for fifty-one kilometers. But I know we weren't blown that far off course.

Hollow City

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

Hollow City

Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

The only thing they valued higher than ammunition were Man United footballs.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

I struggled to think pure thoughts, as Hector sucked out my psyche with his eyes.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again.

Broken Abroad

That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams. The girls of 1929.

Bright Young Things

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change

City of Ashes

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

City of Fallen Angels

At least Kyle wasn't home. That would be a hard one to explain to his new roomate. Nobody liked a guy who kept blood in the fridge.

City of Fallen Angels

Jace snorted so loudly that she turned on him with a frown. He wiggled his mud-caked fingers at her. His nails were black crescents. "Filthy inside and out.

City of Ashes

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

City of Ashes

We came to see Jace. Is he alright?" "I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?

City of Ashes

Watching Jace hug Isabelle, she tried to school her features into a happy and loving expression. "Are you all right?" Simon asked, with some concern. "Your eyes are crossing.

City of Ashes