Answers to the game
Since I learned the fine art of making a cut, I figured I will post an answers under the cut and if anybody will want to play one day, they still may :)
So here we go and yes, Jen you have good memory the two books that you mentioned you got spot on.
1. “I’d have lost it without her. Pillar of strength and calm,” Billy said. He glanced back toward the waiting room and a smile touched the corners of his eyes. “She’s good at setting things aside until there’s time to deal with them. Once things have settled out, she’ll be a wreck, and it’ll be my turn to hold her up.”
Jim Butcher “The turn coat”
2. “It has been some time since that I conceived of any event in this Life, which could call forth, feelings of mutual sympathy. But I know how closely entwined around a parents heart, are those chords which bind the filial to the parental Bosom, and when shaped asunder, how agonizing the pangs of separation”
Abigail Adams (Letter to Thomas Jefferson)
3. “Men, I understand that you don’t like lice. Well, I don’t like ‘em neither. But this is an urgent business we have in hand: there is no time to ship wash-tubs and boil everything, and to get into Grimsholm you have to look like sloppy-joes, not like man-of-war’s men. I am sorry for it, but there is nothing I can do: it is all in the line of duty. And you need not fear for your hair, so long as you do not put on their hats. A very learned gentleman has told me that these are innocent lice: they go only for your body, never for your pigtails.”
Patrick O’Brien “ The Surgeon’s mate”
4.
“And the waiting was almost as bad as the heat. Instead of being ready for a fight, with the normal anticipation of victory in battle against half-civilized enemy, the men were quiet, almost nervous, preparing to meet their ends. And Scolville could say nothing to contradict that expectation without insulting his men’s good sense and making himself look like a fool. How was an officer supposed to put heart into his men when every scrap of intelligence numbered at least ten Afghan tribesmen to every British soldier? No amount of pride and patriotism could overcome those odds”
Lee Rowan
“Gentleman’s gentleman”
5.
‘He had always respected her for her courage and integrity but now he found himself enjoying her company, partly as fellow traveler but also as a smart and attractive woman, who had faced her troubles and side-stepped self pity. Everything about her indicated a cheerful ability to get up and try again, and again after if need be”
R.E.Delderfield ‘To serve them all my days”
6.
‘I reached the corner, but a swift glance revealed that it was only a blind drive to the back of another building. I was half-turned in anticipation; I had to hurriedly correct and dash across the narrow drive, back to the sidewalk. The street ended at the next corner, where there was a stop sign. I concentrated on the faint footsteps behind me, deciding whether or not to run. They sounded farther back, though and I knew they could outrun me in any case”
Stephenie Meyer “The Twilight”
7.
“I am not accustomed at this point in my career to having to solicit commissions, but I did tell you that I was between engagements. You might spare my pride and regard that as a hint”
Guy Gavriel Kay ‘Song for Arbonne”
8.
"All that time after you left it was so easy to be pissed at you, to wrap myself in this mantle of betrayed friend and lover, act like you'd done me so horribly wrong, but the truth is... it was all a big fricking cover. Being angry and venting my hurt and frustration at you, was easier than having to admit that it was my fault. I know I'm the one who run you off.
M.L. Rhodes “Always”
9.
"It amused and touched her to discover this childish streak of vanity in him. But she knew that he would see through her at once if she tried to pander to it by saying anything more flattering than the truth"
Dorothy L. Sayers “Gaudy Night”