[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?"[ Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball out of the small of my back. It must have been when I turned to hail for more hands- thank God I did not. At the time I thought it was one of those vile horses that were capering about abaft the wheel."" Oh, sir, surely a horse would never have fired off a pistol? Patrick OBrian
Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
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Euripides
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
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Clive Barker
You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.
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Emery Allen
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.
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Bertolt Brecht
The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
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Isobelle Carmody
More Quotes By Patrick OBrian
Sir, ’ said Stephen, ‘I read novels with the utmost pertinacity. I look upon them-- I look upon good novels--as a very valuable part of literature, conveying more exact and finely-distinguished knowledge of the human heart and mind than almost any other, with greater breadth...
I sew his ears on from time to time, sure.
I should send my bees ashore for you, upon my sacred honour.
Well, I will wear the bees, like Damon and Pythagoras — ho, a mere sixty thousand bees in the cabin don't signify, much.
You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack.
