Legend Quotes
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![Colleen McCullough](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1473700455i/4917067._UY200_CR100,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of great pain… Or so says the legend.”
― The Thorn Birds
― The Thorn Birds
![Marie Lu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285032806i/4342215._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer.
I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”
― Legend
I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.”
― Legend
![Marie Lu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285032806i/4342215._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.”
― Legend
― Legend
![Marie Lu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285032806i/4342215._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“I hope,” he replies softly, “to get to know you again. If you are open to it. There is a fog around you that I would like to clear away.”
― Champion
― Champion
![Marie Lu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285032806i/4342215._UX200_CR0,55,200,200_.jpg)
“Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always.
"I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?”
― Champion
"I love you," he whispers. "Can you stay awhile?”
― Champion
![George R.R. Martin](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1649011787i/346732._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
![Richard Matheson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1200467797i/8726._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.”
― I Am Legend
― I Am Legend
![Mike Norton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1488662178i/5177973._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.”
― White Mountain
― White Mountain
![John Flanagan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1204665476i/34049._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Remember no one expects you to be Halt. He's a legend, after all. Haven't you heard? He's eight feet tall and kills bears with his bare hands...”
― Erak's Ransom
― Erak's Ransom
![Stephanie Garber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1437192619i/14137787._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Some would probably call him a villain. Others would say his magic makes him closer to a god.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible, distant because of his demonstrated flawlessness, and possessing such strength of character that he was dismaying and at the same time utterly attractive in an enticing and forbidden way.”
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
![Lisa Kaniut Cobb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1626896290i/453232._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg)
“They don't know what a stand up guy you are."
"Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
― Down in the Valley
"Even more so, now that I have four legs, right?”
― Down in the Valley
![Lisa Kaniut Cobb](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1626896290i/453232._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg)
“George didn't do quiet or subtle. His big paws kicked up rocks as he stretched into his own version of a freight train.”
― Down in the Valley
― Down in the Valley
“songs, to me, were more important than just light entertainment. They were my preceptor and guide into some altered consciousness of reality. Some different republic, some liberated republic... whatever the case, it wasn't that I was anti-popular culture or anything and I had no ambition to stir things up. I just thought of mainstream culture as lame as hell and a big trick. It was like the unbroken sea of frost that lay outside the window and you had to have awkward footgear to walk with.”
― Chronicles, Volume One
― Chronicles, Volume One
![C. JoyBell C.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1612358741i/4114218._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends. Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as "fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales." And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day "advancements" we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question "Who designated myths and legends as unreality? " But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors "You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things" and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable. Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.”
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“A person who is truly cool is a work of art. And remember, original works of art cost exponentially higher than imitations. Just take a look at the the coolest people in history. They will always be a part of history for being extremely original individuals, not imitations.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
![Stephanie Garber](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1437192619i/14137787._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“And you’re wrong if you think I don’t want you. I’ve wanted you for so long, and I’ll never stop wanting you.”
― Finale
― Finale
![Terry Pratchett](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1235562205i/1654._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“Legends don't have to make sense. They just have to be beautiful. Or at least interesting.”
― The Folklore of Discworld
― The Folklore of Discworld
![Washington Irving](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1218187394i/28525._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“His appetite for the marvelous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary”
― The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
― The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
![Diane Duane](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1285664395i/11761.jpg)
“A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past."
"It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.”
― The Book of Night with Moon
"It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.”
― The Book of Night with Moon
![Peter S. Beagle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1360970921i/1067608._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul either. Ware him ever, trust him never, but when the wind’s right he has his uses. Never forget that you will never know him. The Pooka’s mystery even to the Pooka.”
― Tamsin
― Tamsin
![Janice Hardy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1278335751i/2868311._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about?”
― Blue Fire
― Blue Fire
“Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.”
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![John F. Kennedy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1498639086i/3047._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily see how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country, which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”
― Prelude to Leadership: The Post-War Diary, Summer 1945
― Prelude to Leadership: The Post-War Diary, Summer 1945
![Richard K. Morgan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1175224722i/16496._UX200_CR0,38,200,200_.jpg)
“...you and I will be dust and half-remembered tales before they even start to build that city. But it will come, and when it does, this sword will still be there to see it. Kiriath steel — built to harm, built to last. When all the damage it’s done and the grief it’s caused have been forgotten, even by the gods, when the Kiriath themselves have passed into discredited myth, this murderous fucking ... thing ... will hang unused, and harmless, and gaped at by children. That’s how it ends, Gil. With no one to remember, or care, or understand what this thing could do when you set it free.”
― The Steel Remains
― The Steel Remains
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