- Crooked Kingdom
- "Maybe there were people who lived those lives. Maybe this girl was one of them. But what about the rest of us? What about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary. That was how you survived when you weren't chosen, when there was no royal blood in your veins. When the world owed you nothing, you demanded something of it anyway."
- "Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea"
- Kafka on the Shore
- "That's fine. Look - what I'm getting at is no matter who or what you're dealing with, people build up meaning between themselves and the things around them. The important thing is whether this comes about naturally or not. Being bright has nothing to do with it. What matters is that you see things with your own eyes."
- "Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. So anyone who's in love gets sad when they think of their lover. It's like stepping back inside a room you have fond memories of, one you haven't seen in a long time. It's only a natural feeling. You're not the person who discovered that feeling, so don't go trying to patent it, OK?"
- "But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them"
- "Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?"
- "Listen - there is no war that will end all wars," Crow tells me. "War grows within war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that"
jan 12 2019 ∞
apr 28 2019 +