Quotes About Exchange

Ashlar: I have learned to live with a profound loneliness. I forget about it for years and years. Then it surfaces, the desire to be placed in context by somebody else. The desire to be known, understood, evaluated morally by a sophisticated mind. That was always the lure of the Talamasca, from the beginning, that I could go there and confide in my scholars, that we would talk late into the night.(...) Human beings very seldom survive without that kind of exchange, communication. Love.

Derek glanced over at her. Then he closed his magazine, leaving a finger inside as a marker, and undid his seat belt and stood up. "Trade places with me," he said. Willa gazed up at him imploringly. "Come on. Move." She fumbled for her seat belt. She undid the buckle, holding her breath, and then she clutched her purse and sat forward, wincing as she braced for the slam of the bullet. Nothing happened.

Oh," he said. That seemed to satisfy him. At least, he didn't ask anything more. In the silence that followed, Willa's eyes met her sister's, and the two of them exchanged a long, stunned, stricken gaze.

I wonder if she ever wants to trade lives with me, if only for the chance to punch something.

So we take the deal. We agree to do a job in exchange for a set of instructions. And for the hundred years that it led to increasing standards of living, it seemed like a very good deal.

Organizing around the average, then, is too expensive. Organizing around average means that the organization has exchanged the high productivity of exceptional performance for the ease and security of an endless parade of average performers.

Otherwise, I'd like nothing better than…conversing with you. You're such a deep, penetrating conversationalist, after all

Are you up? Dressing? (Astrid) No. I'm pissing on your rug. What do you think I'm doing? (Zarek) I'm blind. For all I know you really are peeing on my rug, which is a very nice rug incidentally, so I hope you're kidding. (Astrid)

What are you doing here? (Artemis) I wanted to thank you for what you did tonight, but as I considered that, it dawned on me that you have never once in eleven thousand years done anything for me for free. The sheer fear factor of that realization alone has made me come seeking you. So what gives? (Acheron)

Hey, man. Where have you been? (Dev) Out and about. You? (Talon) (Dev gave him a wicked grin.) Mostly in and out. (Dev)

You want me here. (Artemis) Yeah, like an alien rectal probe up my sphincter.' (Acheron)

It's a gift. (Artemis) Nothing is ever freely given. (Acheron)

Are you calling me out? (Varyk) I'm calling you slow. Not out. (Dev)

Why'd he call you?" – Sundown "My charming personality." – Zarek

I have two words for you. (Terri) Oh, yeah? (Josie) Whatever- (Terri) That's one word. (Josie) –bitch. (Terri)

Shut up. What did you ask me, anyway?" – Sundown "Really? Good thing I didn't tell you to duck a bomb." – Sasha

Wouldn't it be freaky if the two of us exchanged places? You'd have to go home to my house and make out with Duncan. (Mary) Ah, gah! Eye bleach. Don't put that shit in my head. You're my sister, for Pete's sake. Now I'm going to have to beat your husband the next time I see him for defiling you. (Zeke) Oh, pooh. You always overreact to everything. (Mary)

And there's one more thing. (Gabriel) Neutering? (Zeke)

By the way, I have a bone to pick with you. Esperetta Only one? Velkan At the moment. Esperetta Then I can't wait to hear it. Velkan 'Bram' and 'Stoker'? Esperetta It was fitting, I thought. Velkan

Acheron: Yeah well, I don't like talking about myself and I despise personal questions. Tory: Fine. All I want is that brain of yours for a few

Who is it that does not voluntarily exchange his health, his repose, and his very life for reputation and glory? The most useless, frivolous, and false coin that passes current among us.

I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.

Much as we deplore our condition in life, nothing would make us more satisfied with it than the changing of places, for a few days, with our neighbors.

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.