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1 " The irony was that my real enemy had been there all along right in front of me. Smiling crookedly and convincing me we were friends. Trying to seduce me for the thrill of the chase. Chastising me for not trusting him that first year in the tower stairs at the Academy… Telling me he loved me. And then tossing me aside the second I jeopardized his dreams. I wasn’t what he had wanted all these years. I’d merely been a diversion in his pursuit of the crown.I never should have trusted a prince. "
― Rachel E. Carter , Apprentice (The Black Mage, #2)
2 " You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. "
― Kahlil Gibran , The Prophet
3 " The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting. "
― Eoin Colfer , Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl, #1)
4 " Amy turned to Nellie. " Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?" The au pair was wary. " What kind of diversion?" " You could pretend to be lost," Dan proposed. " The guy comes out to give you directions, and we slip inside." " That's the most sexist idea I've ever heard," Nellie said harshly. " I'm female, so I have to be clueless. He's male, so he's got a great sense of direc "
5 " Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master's concerns. Now we hear that is is the task of women of Color to educated white women - in the face of tremendous resistance - as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought. "
― Audre Lorde , Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
6 " And if a diversion is needed, why not arrest a general? Arthur Dillon is a friend of eminent deputies, a contender for the post of Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front; he has proved himself at Valmy and in a halfdozen actions since. In the National Assembly he was a liberal; now he is a republican. Isn’t it then logical that he should be thrown into gaol, July 1, on suspicion of passing military secrets to the enemy? "
― Hilary Mantel , A Place of Greater Safety
7 " There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. "
