Quotes about Lucian

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If she's out here and not locked up in the barracks, I'll know, he said. He took a deep breath and whistled. You share a whistle? Trevanion said in disbelief. Do you have a problem with that? Finnikin asked. I have a few whistles, Lucian murmured. Very confusing sometimes. Whistles are meant for combat, Trevanion said. Not wooing women. Women do not understand whistles.

Up in the distance the whistle of the wind sang to her from the mountain. From Lucian's mountain. It beckoned and taunted and she wanted to run towards it. To be enveloped in its coat of fleece and to hear its safe sounds.

Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to, why we cannot forget. Everything is collage, even genetics. There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border we cross.

Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje
Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk, eh, Lucian?

Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare
Women have ironically enjoyed a greater symbolic, if not practical freedom. Thus it is that male and not female homosexuality has been harshly punished by law. A debater in Lucian declares, Far better that a women, in the madness of her lust, should usurp the nature of man, than that man's noble nature should be so degraded as to play the woman. Similarly today, lesbian interludes are a staple of heterosexual pornography. Ever since man emerged from the dominance of nature, masculinity has been the most fragile and problematic of psychic states.

I wasn't going to argue with you. Why ever would you think that? I never argue." Lucian smiled at her. She was so small, it amazed him she was such a strong person. "Of course you do not argue. What was I thinking? Go to sleep, honey, and allow my poor body to rest." I'm already asleep. You're the one gabbing.