- "don't cling to things, because everything is impermanent."
- "you do care. you care so much as though you feel you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
- "i always marvel at the humans' ability to keep going. they always manage to stagger on, even with tears streaming down their faces."
- "i am haunted by humans."
- "it takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but much more to stand up to your friends."
- "never forget what you are. the rest of the world will not. wear it like armour, and it can never be used to hurt you."
- "in my job, i am always finding humans at their best and their worst. i see their ugliness and their beauty. and i wonder how the same thing can be both."
- "when life robs you, sometimes, you have to rob it back."
- "restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. she wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. it didn't matter where. her mouth, her neck, her cheek. her skin was empty for it, waiting."
- "i guess humans like to watch a little destruction. sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. their great skill is their capacity to escalate."
- "words will live as long as people remember them."
- "only the weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."
- "there's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it."
- "desire is not always lessened by disgust. nor can it be bestowed, like a favor, to those most deserving of it."
- "and that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. they think everyone else does too."
- "humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them."
- "i've never seen anyone get so excited over books before. you'd think they were diamonds."
- "what a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person."
- "winter isn't sad. you've had happy times in winter. and sad ones in summer. life goes by year-round. people get married in sleet storms. people get cancer on soft summer evenings, sitting by the radio, looking up words in a dictionary. the wonderful world falls apart around the clock. you know this from experience, if you've ever had any. and there's nothing necessarily sad about anything. or happy."
- "she ran the back of her hand along the first shelf, listening to the shuffle of her fingernails gliding across the spinal cord of each book. it sounded like an instrument, or the notes of running feet. she used both hands. she raced them. one shelf against the other. and she laughed."
- "that's the problem with putting others first, you've taught them you come second."
- "you punish yourself for being yourself."
- "don't compare your chapter one to someone's chapter twenty."
- "and i'd choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, i'd find you and i'd choose you."
- "the power of one man doesn't amount to much. but, however little strength i'm capable of... i'll do everything humanly possible to protect the people i love, and in turn they'll protect the ones they love. it seems like the least we tiny humans can do for each other."
- "nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect, but it's there for us, trying the best it can. that's what makes it so damn beautiful."
- "if the ways of this world are based on equivalent exchange, as alchemy says, then in order to allow for a new generation to enjoy good fortune, then the price that we must pay is to carry the bodies of the dead across a river of blood."
- "i will follow you into hell if you ask me to."
- "one is all, and all is one."
- "believe in yourselves and choose life over death. otherwise, you've led a shameful existence."
- you see, i'm sure we can change. because we're weak. and because we die. we have to fight in order to live, and that's what will make us strong."
- "a king exists for his people. without subjects, rulers can not exist."
- "a king is no king without his people. but people without a king are lost as well."
- "we don't see any point of clinging in those who've died. we only know how to fight to keep more from dying."
- "you humans are such sad and weak, foolish creatures."
- "it's remarkable how weak they are. they have an innate fear of the dark. and how do they handle this fear? they simply pretend it doesn't exist. they run away from it. how could anyone say humans aren't weak? it's an inherent trait."
- "... there's an old myth, about a hero who flew on wings made of wax. he thought he could touch the sun but when he got too close, his wings melted and he came crashing back to earth."
mar 10 2014 ∞
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