Coin Quotes

“Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It's as if he's speaking the words again. "Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other."
He's right. We did.
The point of my arrow shifts upward. I release the string. And President Coin collapses over the side of the balcony and plunges to the ground. Dead.”
― Suzanne Collins

“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Every blessing, just like a coin, has two sides”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The message, which one fall or another of the coin would eventually give him, was how to get himself out of his chamber and into Nepenthe's, so that he could tell her why he had not come to tell her why he had not come.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn

“Paying good coin to bad men.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Guys,
Don't be Clever by knowing one side.
Your assumptions are always wrong.
Even a one rupee coin have two sides.”
― Allan Bridjith

“Don't you think it's strange that life, described
as so rich and full, a camel-trail of adventure,
should shrink to this coin sized world?”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“Paying coin to the usurper is proof of naught but treason.”
― George R.R. Martin, Fire & Blood

“Money is a tool, so I don't have to be.”
― Eddie Mumford

“They’re two sides of the same coin. Life becomes a living hell, but the alternative is even worse.”
― Jo Nesbø, Flaggermusmannen

“Silence is such a coin that one side of which failure has and on the other hand holds the success, adopt it wisely.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“A fortune can't be made from a single coin in the same way a forest can be grown from a single seed.”
― VKBoy, Shambala Sect

“Silence is such a coin that one side of which failure has and on the other hand, holds the success; adopt it wisely”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Safely cocooned in my room, wrapped in the pink-and-gold bedspread that still smelled of nutmeg and sandalwood, I removed the coin from its tiny pocket in my skirt and studied the silver-eyed queen. She had a mischievous, run-away-with-me sort of smile, and for a moment I felt my heart swoop like something taking flight, tasted cedar and salt in my mouth-”
― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January

“The architect thinks of his client and builds a house like a machine, in order to be absolutely modern and retain only the most topical (and forward-looking) elements of the modern; the writer thinks of himself and writes a story as one way of understanding the modern tumult and all that preceded it. Together, they stamp the two sides of a single coin, an amulet for us to wear as we confront the future.”
― Christoph Grafe, OASE 70: Architecture and Literature

“Rich people? If only they had a coin for every coin they have!”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“It all begins with a coin, dream and exploration .”
― Ankit Samrat

“When those who truly pushed the box have no say in which direction the box goes, our home is left with one of the most common problems in the known world.

With even the boxes, scratching their heads.”
― Monaristw

“Reflect, and buoyancy may reflect the reflection.”
― Monaerw

“They didn't know, we know. They are excused.”
― Minoaristw

“Building up, tearing down, and inaction.

Preconsideration, consequences.”
― Garistw

“Cursed be the horses, entering rooms without first turning the lights on, and not turning all the lights off [upon] last to leave.

Vision.”
― Paratratw

“Seashells were money before coin, jewelry before gems, art before canvas.”
― Cynthia Barnett, The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

“She picked up a river stone and set it down in the pile of treasure. It acquired facets and blazed like a ruby under her hands. She picked up a coin, stamped with the face of an ancient king, and moved it to the other side of the table, where it was a dried leaf with the edges turning to powder.”
― T. Kingfisher, Nettle & Bone

“Ryne forestalled any possibility of righting matters, tossing her a fat coin and giving her a slap on the bottom to send her off. Lira offered him a dimpled smile as she slipped the silver into the neck of her dress, but she left sending smoky glances over her shoulder at Lan that made him sigh. If he tried to say no now, she might well pull a knife over the insult.
'So your luck still holds with women, too.' Ryne's laugh had an edge. Perhaps he fancied her himself. 'The Light knows, they can't find you handsome; you get uglier every year. Maybe I ought to try some of that coy modesty, let women lead me by the nose.”
― Robert Jordan, New Spring