Robert Thier, Storm and Silence
14 quotes
"I would prefer a sword to fight duel, but a pen to plan a war."
"A man.A really manly man with a lot of mannishness in his manliness."
"Chains of gold are still chains."
"Marriage is supposed to be a union between two equals who love and support each other, not a master-slave relationship in which the man commands a docile woman."
"Ships are my arrows, the sea my bow, the world my target."
"Then don't you dare tell me my dreams are insane! Because my dreams are what I live for!"
"Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living."
"And worse, far worse – he wasn't just kissing me. He was making me like it! And he was somehow, by some nefarious chauvinistic manly trick managing to make me kiss him back!"
"His lips reached mine and enveloped them, soft as velvet and yet unyielding."
"His silent, stony face was only inches away now. He was so near, so terribly near – and then he moved to close the last bit of distance."
"Only stupid men would want stupid wives!"
"Hard. That was what he looked like. That was what you first noticed about him: a hard, chiselled face, like that that of some ancient Greek statue."
"You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?” I gasped."
"His blue-green eyes were dark pools of immeasurable depth, pools you could drown yourself in and never again come up for air."