The God of Small Things

- That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

- And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say.  But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said.  Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

- Change is one thing. Acceptance is another. Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

- As Estha stirred the thick jam he thought Two Thoughts and the Two Thoughts he thought were these:
Anything can happen to anyone.
It is best to be prepared.

- Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

The Lady Most Likely

"He is asking Caroline to produce a list," Georgina explained.
"What sort of list?" Finchley asked.
"A list of women to marry," Hugh said feeling as if his idea had been a stupid one. Now even Finchbird would take the piss out of him as well.
"I find that one wife is more than enough," his brother-in-law said grinning.

"I heard her ask Lord Nebel how many sheep he was running on his estate. He didn't even know he was running sheep."
"I have sheep, but from the look of it, all they do is eat. No running."

"They don't have to all be maidens."
"Well, that's very liberal of you," Caroline said with a sisterly smirk. "But since I can hardly hand out a questionnaire as regards their experiences in that regard, we'll have to leave it there."

She looked down at her sketch pad. She'd been drawing a rabbit. She decided to give him unpleasant teeth. Vicious little bunny. Excellent.

"I am beginning to realize," Alex murmured, "why people always hope for sons. It has nothing to do with producing an heir."
"That was unkind," Octavia said, not sounding the least bit insulted.
"Females are a prodigious amount of work."

And then Alec had a providient thought. "D'you want my sister?"
"Octavia!" Hugh gasped at him. "isn't she twelve?"
"She's nineteen."
"I can't marry her. I'd keep picturing her as twelve."

It was so strange how someone could love another person so much and so well but still not understand what made her happy.

You don't understand how fragile life is. You don't realize that the thread breaks between one moment and the next.

"...there us a difference you know, between the male and the female ghost-"
"What is the difference?" Georgina asked.
"Oh, the male ghost is obsessed with venegemce, I find." Lear said, drinking again.
"And what are females obsessed by?" Hugh asked.
"Prick songs," Lear said. "Snogging. Same as when they are alive, really.

A Night To Surrender

"No, Susanna, " he said.  "I cannot love you just a little.  If that's what you want, you must find a different man."  His green eyes were breathtaking in their intensity.  His thumb brushed her bottom lip.  "Because I can only love you entirely.  With everything I am, and everything I ever will be.  Body, mind, heart, soul."

"No, no.  Don't make that face.  Every time I propose to you, you make that twisty, unhappy face.  It wears on a man's confidence."
"I'm so sorry to disappoint you," she said, breathing hard. "But it would take far more than that to scare me."
A quick flex of his arms, and their bodies collided. And he whispered, just as his mouth fell on hers, "God, I was hoping you'd say that.

"I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel."

"Why not? Because I'm a woman?"
"No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood."

"Tonight," he announced, "is the night we take back that village. And we're not going to do it by marching in lines or committing acts of brave idiocy. We're going to do it by being men. Manly men. The kind of men a woman wants to take control."
Brows wrinkled in confusion.
"But . . ." The blacksmith looked around the group. "We are men. Last I checked, anyhow."
"It's not just a matter of having the proper equipment. It's using the equipment properly." Leaping up on a crate, Colin spread his arms wide. "Look at me. Now look at yourselves. Now look back at me. I am the man you want to be like."
Dawes crossed his arms. "Why is that, precisely?"
"Do you know how many women I've bedded?" When Rufus and Finn perked, he waved at them. "Have a guess, boys."
"Seventeen," offered Finn.
"More."
"Eighteen."
"Still more."
"Er . . . nineteen?"
"Oh, for the love of God," he muttered. "We'll be here all day. Let's just call the number more than you can imagine. Because clearly, that is the case." Under his breath, he added, "Perhaps higher than you know how to count."

Colin stared at the officer. "Thorne, you scare me. I'm not ashamed to say it."

"The Blushing Pansy," his cousin read aloud, in a tone of abject horror. "Tea shop and confectionery."
Bram swore. This was going to be ugly.

"We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions."

"This explains so much," she said, clucking her tongue in mother-hen fashion. "You're compensating for this withered appendage."
Withered appendage? What the devil was she talking about? He shook his head, trying to clear it. Colin's dire predictions of shriveled twigs and dried currants rattled in his skull. Wide awake now, he fought to sit up, wrestling the sheets.
"Listen, you. I don't know what sort of liberties you've taken while I was insensible, or just what your spinster imagination prepared you to see. But I'll have you know, that water was damned cold."
She blinked at him. "I'm referring to your leg."
"Oh." His leg. That withered appendage.

"Your breasts are alabaster orbs."
"What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that."
"Do you have some better suggestion?"
"Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?"

She [Susanna] realized she was still hugging the wall.  Pride propelled her two steps forward.  As she advanced, something bleated at her, as though chastising her for trespassing.  She stopped midstep and peered at it.  "Did you know there's a lamb in here?"
"Never mind it. That's dinner."
She gave it a smile and a friendly pat.  "Hullo, Dinner.  Aren't you a sweet thing."
"It's not his name, it's his...function."

When he [Colin] reached the center of the field, he paused to catch his breath and scan the area for telltale tufts of wool.  When the lamb failed to appear, he cupped his hands around his mouth and tried again.  "Dinner!"
This time, his call earned an answer.  Several answers.  In fact, the ground shook with the collective bestial response.  He spied several large, dark forms lumbering toward him through the twilight dusk.  He blinked, trying to make them out.  These weren't sheep.  No, they were...
Cows.  Large cows.  Remarkably fast and menacing cows.  A small herd of them, all thundering straight for him where he stood in the center of the field.
Colin took a few steps backward.  "Wait," he said, holding up his hands.  "I didn't mean you."

Bram stared into a pair of wide, dark eyes.  Eyes that reflected a surprising glimmer of intelligence. This might be the rare female a man could reason with.
"Now, then," he said. "We can do this the easy way, or we can make things difficult."
With a soft snort, she turned her head.  It was as if he'd ceased to exist.
Bram shifted his weight to his good leg, feeling the stab to his pride.  He was a lieutenant colonel in the British army, and at over six feet tall, he was said to cut an imposing figure.  Typically, a pointed glance from his quarter would quell the slightest hint of disobedience.  He was not accustomed to being ignored.
"Listen sharp, now."  He gave her ear a rough tweak and sank his voice to a low threat.  "If you know what's good for you, you'll do as I say."
Though she spoke not a word, her reply was clear: You can kiss my great wolly arse.

Confounded sheep.

So close.  He'd get there. Not today, but soon. He had a task to accomplish here, and the sooner he completed it, the sooner he could rejoin his regiment.  He wasn't stopping for anything.
Except sheep.  Blast it.  It would seem they were stopping for sheep.
A rough voice said, "I'll take care of them."
Thorne joined their group.  Bram flicked his gaze to the side and spied his hulking mountain of a corporal shouldering a flintlock rifle.
"We can't simply shoot them, Thorne."
Obedient as ever, Thorne lowered his gun.  "Then I've a cutlass.  Just sharpened the blade last night."
"We can't butcher them, either."
Thorne shrugged.  "I'm hungry."
Yes, that was Thorne--straightforward, practical.  Ruthless.

Thorne looked to the woolly beast at his [Bram's] knee and and cocked a brow.  "You seem to have acquired a lamb, my lord."
"The lamb goes home tomorrow."
"And if he doesn't?"
"He's dinner.

"This isn't food."  Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it.  "This is...edible ornamentation."

He shook his head, looking perplexed. "I even like it when you snipe at me."
"You've seen me with a gun. If I were to snipe at you, I promise you'd feel it. And you wouldn't like it one bit."

The further he raided, the closer he came to the other rooms. Those unused, cobwebbed chambers of her heart. Would he dare to venture there? She doubted. Jumping off a cliff was a flashy sort of courage, but a man would need true strength and valor to break through those padlocked doors. There were dark, uncharted spaces within her that had been built to house love, and even she was afraid to explore them. Terrified to learn just how vast and how achingly empty they truly were.

"Dodgy bastard," one of the twins spat. A trickle of blood from his temple made it hard to tell which one.
"Shite for brains," the other replied, reversing their positions and landing a punch to the gut. "We're twins. If I'm a bastard, you're one too."

And bloody hell. This journeyed far beyond like rocketed straight past fondness, and pushed all the way to the brink of absurdity.

"How is it you've never married?"
A soft splash. "It's an easy enough thing. Every morning I wake up, go about my day, and return to bed at night without having recited marriage vows. After several years, I have the trick of it down."

"A home isn't only defined by what you need, Bram. It's also about the people who need you."

What kind of a modern woman was she, if she didn't reach for her own dream? Maybe it was time to sweep the man off his feet, for a change.

"So I will just tell you I love you. I love you, Bram. I want everyone to see it, and I want you to know . . . you're a part of this place now. No matter where duty takes you, Spindle Cove will always be here for you. And so will I."
 He put both arms around her, pulling her flush against his chest. "You beautiful, brazen thing." Then he went silent, just holding her gaze for what seemed like eons. Nerves multiplied in her stomach with every passing second. She swallowed hard. "Don't you have anything else to say?
"Hallelujah springs to mind. Beyond that . . ." He brushed a caress down her cheek. "Does this mean that if I proposed marriage to you right now, you might not make that twisty, unhappy face?"
"Try me and see."

"I adored you. All my life, I adored you. I asked nothing of you. No promises, no courtship. I surrendered my virtue. I gave you my trust. And you left me with a note."
His mouth twisted in an expression of regret. He pushed a hand through his hair. "I'm so very-"
"Twenty-six words!" she shot back, in the loudest whisper she could manage. "I gave you my virginity, and you left me twenty-six scribbled words."

A Duke Of Her Own

"Yes Leopold," Eleanor said in a low, mocking voice. "Do start to shine, please. I think I saw the rising, but I definitely missed the shining.

Fairy Tail

Fear is not evil. It tells you what your weakness is. And once you know your weakness, you can become stronger as well as kinder. - Gildarts

People cry, not because they’re weak. It’s because they’ve been strong for too long. - Mirajane

Tears are how your heart speaks when your lips cannot describe how much you’ve been hurt. - Jellal

Whether fairies have tails or not, or whether they even exist, nobody knows for sure. So it’s like an eternal mystery, an eternal adventure. - Makarov

Being alive…is a sign of strength!” - Erza

There are people in this world that enjoy being alone, but there isn’t a single person who can bear solitude. - Makarov

Bury the pain of losing your loved ones… into the arms of your friends. - Erza

The mistakes people make are eventually labelled as experience. But with a true mistake, there will be no experience to be gained. Because the mistake you made taking me as your opponent will leave you with no future. - Purehito

Moving on doesn't mean you forget about things. It just means you have to accept what hapened and continue living - Erza

In a confrontation, the person who wants to help their friends is stronger than the person who escapes. - Mirajane

When people realize how lonely it is being on their own, they will become kind. - Mirajane

Take it, the courage you've locked in your heart, awaken it, wipe your etars, be strong and use that courage. - Erza

There is nothing fortunate about having your fate decided for you. You have to grab your own happiness. - Lucy

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have that strength, I don't care if I'm weaker than anyone else in the world. - Erza

You have three choices: you can give up, give in, or give it your all. - Lucy

It is love that can make us strong, but it is also love that can make us weak. - Makarov

The minute you think of giving up, think of the reason you held on for so long. - Natsu

Gray: Why are you wearing your armor? It is a guild for wizards.
Erza: Why are you not wearing your clothes?  It is a guild for perverts? - Erza

You never looked up to me. I know better than anyone else that I am not the type to be admired. You feared me. Let me help you remember than fear. - Gajeel

There's no need to change the past. We are who we are now. Every second, every action from then is linked to us here and now. - Gray

It’s not the goodbyes that hurt, it’s the flashbacks that follow. - Gray

I may not be able to see you. There may be hundreds of miles between us but I will always be looking your way. I will be watching over you forever. I promise. - Makarov

What is the point of having magic power...If you can't even use it to save the people you care about. - Lucy

One day, you’ll understand. Tears are hollow. Are you sad because someone’s gonna die? Has sadness ever killed a person? The answers are deep in each of your hearts… My proud little brats! Live on… to the future! - Makarov

You don't die for your friends, you live for them. - Erza

Hey... If I disappear again sometime... will you come and find me, Natsu? - Lisana

Everything doesn't have to be decided by life and death. Just think about the future - Gray

But what's important isn't the Magic, it's the heart of the wielder who uses it." - Erza

Gray: I don't mind having a few scars as long as I can see them, its the ones that you can't see that sting.
Natsu: you have invisible scars??

We'll stop it, even if my body crumbles to bits I'll stop it with my soul! - Natsu 

Mistakes are not shackles that halt one from stepping forward. Rather, they are that which sustain and grow one’s heart. -Mavis

Now that I've eaten.... I'm all revved up! - Natsu

Erza was crying, her voice was shaking, and she was giving up. I don't want to see Erza like that. Erza should always be strong and courageous, that's why... I'LL FIGHT!!! - Natsu 

Erza must stay in Fairy Tail, so she would no longer shed any tears! - Gray

Comrades isn't simply a word. Comrades are about heart. It's the unconditional trust in your partners. Please, feel free to lean on me... and I, too, will lean on you as well. There will be painful times... sad times... I'll be with you through thick and thin... You are never alone... The hopes we carry are matched by the number of stars twinkling in the night sky, the rustling of the wind on our bodies are premonitions for what's to come tomorrow. Now, let us take a stroll... to the melody from the song of the fairies. - 

To think there would ever be a day when we could have a normal conversation like this. Thank you, Erza. - Jellal

I don't care if you are the strongest or top guild in Fiore, but I will tell you this - you've made enemies of the worst possible guild to piss off. - Erza

There's a wall that can't be destroyed with just power. However, there is a type of power that can destroy that wall. The Power of Feelings. - Mavis

What are you running away from?... You were running away from yourself, weren't you? From your own past. Pain, failure, fear... A painful past that made you want to escape. I was the same way once. I kept running from my bitter past. That's why I understand the pain in your heart. No one is going to chase you anymore. You don't have to run away. - Mirajane 

Magic isn't a power for killing... But... without great power, you can't protect those you love... It's really contradicting... You've made one critical mistake... When I'm in the presence of others like at the arena... I shy away from taking my true form... Because it makes me a walking contradiction and has always been a source of internal conflict... but when I'm 'alone'... That's when I'm able to unleash my full fury. - Mirajane 

None of us will ever blame our misfortunes on others... Not a single one. But... It's okay... People all have their own reason for living. No matter how small it may be... Even you have a purpose. - Mirajane 

Weaklings will stay weak forever. But weakness is not evil, since human beings are weak creatures to begin with. Alone, you feel nothing but insecurity; that’s why we form guilds, that’s why we have friends. We walk together in order to live a strong life. The clumsy ones will walk into more walls than the others, and it may also take them longer to get there. If you believe in tomorrow and put yourself out there, you can naturally obtain your strength. That’s how you will be able to smile and live strong. - Makarov 

That morning’s dawn was painted a beautiful scarlet, the likes of which I had never seen before. Like the color of Erza’s hair, it was warm and passionate… If she could only lift her face a beautiful sky would be spread out before her. - Lucy

It is always sad to part with those whom you love but your companions will help you bear that sadness. - Erza

It's your words that gave me courage. They became my light that would guide me towards the right path again. - Jellal

I wonder why is it. . . i'm sad . . .and lonely. . . yet the tears won't come. . . - Lucy

Jellal: What's wrong . . . with this twisted world?
Erza: Be that as it may, we must continue to endure and preserve in this world.

Jellal: You're right, . . just like you've always been.
Erza: I'm not trying to be right. I'm just flinging myself headfirst at life, with everything I have.

If the world keeps rejecting me, then I will deny this world. - Zeref

Don't forget the spirit of Crime Sorciere.
That is not to forget your sins. That is to not have your sins crushes. That is to believe in a day that your sins will be forgiven. That is to never stop loving people. -

The grand Magic Games, Day 3, Pandemonium. I think I'll never forget the events of this day. As she becomes covered with wounds, the fairy that should have fallen to earth Dances. Almost like . . . A scarlet flower, blooming fully with pride. - diary

Don't cry, Lucy. Let's save the tears for when we win. - Natsu

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you - Lucy

Defeat is the seed for tomorrow's victory! - Makarov

If it doesn't prick your conscinece, any one could have made those choices. - Michelle

Why do you find it easy to kill ? These are lives dammit! -Natsu

I don't believe in a god that can't even save a child. - Jellal

I thought it was just a thieving cat running away with a piece of paper in its' mouth. I had no idea it was Happy. - Laxus

Fairy Tail mages are specialize in property destruction. - Natsu

You've got to stay by her side! For Erza's sake! So come with us, we're all here for you! You are one of us now, right? Jellal! - Natsu

It's all because of you! You're the one that made Erza cry! - Natsu

There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we were too small to reach the light switch on the wall, and when darkness itself was enough to make us cry out in fear.... -

If you are going to say you don't remember anything, I'll strike my sword on your heart and make you remember. - Erza

If I don't wear my armor, I won't feel secure. - Erza

I wonder for how long... How long will I remain anchored at this harbor known as battle?" Erza

Cobra ... You said that you are strong because you lost everything, doesn't it? But this isn't true strength! People become stronger when they have something to protect! If you have a true friend, that friend will support you! But you only think about yourself! Do you think you could actually hear the voice of this friend?! Don't you feel shame when you think of your friend?! Feelings by friends do not drag you down. - Erza

This life was entrusted to me by Simon... by grandpa Rob... and my comrades... Relinquishing my life so easily would be a slap in the face to all of them - Erza

I am here for you. Even if that hatred were to return, the current you won't vanish. I... - Erza

I... I know of the light that dwells within Jellal - Erza

Always trying to make myself seem stronger, I locked my own heart in a suit of armor and cried." - Erza

Erza... Freedom is not a thing that exists in this world. - Jellal

Life and death are the very basis of all things; they intensify every emotion. Or, to put it in a rather different way, there is nothing quite so dull as "life" - Jellal

This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. - Jellal

Erza... I can feel kindness from that name... I can feel kindness, cheerfulness and warmth... I'm sure you'll continue to hate me, but I can't help that. It's only natural. But hatred will steal the freedom from your heart. It will eat away at you from within. I can't go that far. I can't go before you! You will be free from Jellal. I will take your hatred and sadness... with me... You are... free! - Jellal

Gramps, lets fight. I know there are times when you have to fall back, Gildarts taught me that. But this ain't one of those times. The bastard who makes an enemy of Fairy Tail, we need them to remember the power of our guild with all its heart and soul. Lets fight gr...gramps! - Natsu

That is our Fairy Tail!! We don't live like we have already died, like you do!! We live with our lives on the lines, you bastard!! If you don't have the courage to change things then you might as well just die!!! -

The citizens are all in panic. There's no one who could adapt to such a rapid change in the world. That's precisely why they need a new leader now. A new King for the new world. A King who can lead a nation in bondage to fear and terror to happiness. It's impossible for me, as I haven't walked the paths of this world and neither do I have right. In order to calm the panicked masses, we need a villain and a hero. The person who exposes the evil that's plunged this world into the chaos, and execute it, becomes the hero. That hero can unite the people and become King. I, who've rebelled against the King of Edolas and stolen all of this world's Magic Power, am the "villain". And you, who can bring harmony out of the prejudice and misunderstanding between races, would make an appropriate "hero". You must execute me, as the traitor who destroyed this world and then become the King this world - Mystogan

Such beautiful scarlet hair....Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it. - Jellal

The worst kind of pain is when you are smiling to stop the tears from flowing. - Lucy

Ghum Sheshe

You can bring pieces of memory together of someone who had died. But you can't bring them all the way back to life.

Tangled

Mother Gothel: Look in that mirror. I see a strong, confident, beautiful young lady.
[Rapunzel smiles]
Mother Gothel: Oh look, you're here too.

Flynn Rider: This is the story of how I died. Don't worry, this is actually a very fun story and the truth is, it isn't even mine. This is the story of a girl named Rapunzel.

Rapunzel: Hi. Welcome home, Mother.
Mother Gothel: Oh! Rapunzel, how you manage to do that every single day without fail, it looks absolutely exhausting, darling!
Rapunzel: Oh, it's nothing.
Mother Gothel: Then I don't know why it takes so long.

Flynn Rider: You were my new dream.
Rapunzel: [crying] And you were mine.

Rapunzel: Who's that?
[the castle guards]
Flynn Rider: They don't like me.
Rapunzel: Who's that?
[the Stabbington brothers]
Flynn Rider: They don't like me either.
Rapunzel: And who's *that*?
[Maximus]
Flynn Rider: Let's just assume for the moment that everyone in here doesn't like me!

Hook Hand Thug: Go, live your dream.
Flynn Rider: I will.
Hook Hand Thug: [Referring to Rapunzel] Your dream stinks. I was talking to her.

Rapunzel: So mother, earlier I was saying tomorrow is a really big day, and you didn't really respond, so I'm just gonna tell you: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! Tada!
Mother Gothel: No no no, can't be. I distinctly remember, your birthday was last year.
Rapunzel: That's the funny thing about birthdays, they're kind of an annual thing.

Rapunzel: I've been looking out of a window for eighteen years, dreaming about what I might feel like when those lights rise in the sky. What if it's not everything I dreamed it would be?
Flynn Rider: It will be.
Rapunzel: And what if it is? What do I do then?
Flynn Rider: Well,that's the good part I guess. You get to go find a new dream.

Rapunzel: We made it.
Flynn Rider: Her hair glows!
Rapunzel: We're alive. We're alive!
Flynn Rider: I didn't see that coming.
Rapunzel: Eugene.
Flynn Rider: The hair actually glows.
Rapunzel: Eugene.
Flynn Rider: Why does her hair glow!
Rapunzel: Eugene!
Flynn Rider: [almost in hysteria] What?
Rapunzel: It doesn't *just* glow.
Flynn Rider: [Pascal smiles at him smugly] Why is he smiling at me?

Flynn Rider: But I know what the big question is? Did Rapunzel and I ever get married? Well I am happy to say after years and years of asking, I finally said yes.
Rapunzel: Eugene!
Flynn Rider: Okay, okay. I asked her.
Rapunzel: And we're living happily ever after!
Flynn Rider: Yes we are.

Rapunzel: I met someone.
Mother Gothel: Yes. The wanted thief, I'm so proud.

Rapunzel: Something brought you here, Flynn Rider. Call it what you will... fate... destiny...
Flynn Rider: A horse.

Flynn Rider: All the things we've seen and it's only 8 in the morning!

Flynn Rider: I have dreams like you, no really. Just much less touchy-feely. They mainly happen somewhere warm and sunny. On an island that I own, tanned and rested and alone. Surrounded by enormous piles of money.

Flynn Rider: The kingdom and I aren't exactly sympatico.

Flynn Rider: I didn't want to have to do this, but you leave me no choice. Here comes the smoulder.