“Naturally, as humans, we are drawn to each other—our lives become centered around family, friends, significant others, and even acquaintances. And, I believed, between every human being, there was an invisible string, linking people together.”
#March2024
“To seek vengeance and power instead of cowering when the world punishes you. That‘s what they think evil is, do they not?”
#March2024
“‘Nothing disappears anymore,‘ shrugged Cadman. ‘Everything is somewhere. All that‘s private becomes public in the end.‘”
#February2024
“‘Fascinating. You look all frail and breakable, but you‘re really a violent little thing, aren‘t you?‘”
#February2024
“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
#February2024
“If someone asks you how you are, you are meant to say FINE. You are not meant to say that you cried yourself to sleep last night because you hadn‘t spoken to another person for two consecutive days. FINE is what you say.”
#February2024
“‘Our love is stronger than time, greater than any distance. Our love spans across stars and worlds. I will find you again. I promise.‘”
#January2024
“‘What blinds an Oracle, Bryce Quinlan?‘”
#January2024
“‘My name is Celaena Sardothien,‘ she whispered, ‘and I will not be afraid.‘”
#January2024
“When we narrate our experience, we take control of it. And in controlling the story of our past, we can create a better future.”
#December2023
“Courage is the root of change—and change is what we‘re chemically designed to do.”
#December2023
“Once upon a time, in a land long since burned to ash, there lived a young princess who loved her kingdom…”
#December2023
“‘What is a game? Marx said. ‘It‘s tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It‘s the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.‘”
#November2023
“For we few, the sturdy, the strong, the dreamers, Alaska is home, always and forever, the song you hear when the world is still and quiet. You either belong here, wild and untamed yourself, or you don‘t. I belong.”
#October2023
“A gift.
A gift from a queen who had seen another woman in hell and thought to reach back a hand. With no thought of it ever being returned. A moment of kindness, a tug on a thread.”
#October2023
“And for one single moment, like a flicker in the dark, it felt good.”
#October2023
“Aelin Galathynius had raised an army not just to challenge Morath, but to rattle the stars.”
#October2023
“People said Ove saw the world in black and white. But she was color. All the color he had.”
#September2023
“You‘re not a mess. You just kill by accident only. Bad luck. Can happen to anyone.”
#September2023
“Of course it‘s happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”
#September2023
“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.”
#September2023
“Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.”
#September2023
“If you want to know what a man‘s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
#August2023
“People should know about us. Girls who write their pain on their bodies.”
#August2023
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”
#August2023
“‘It is our choices, harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.‘”
#August2023
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
#July2023
“Because it‘s one thing to survive. It is much, much harder to truly live.”
#July2023
“‘What if we go on,‘ he said, ‘only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible end waiting for us?‘
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. ‘Then it is not the end.‘”
#June2023
“Question yourself, yes, but don‘t doubt yourself. There‘s a difference.”
#June2023
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else‘s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”
#May2023
“She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.”
#May2023
“She was what all the dead are: whatever the living make them.”
#April2023
“‘Why are you crying?‘
‘Because,‘ she whispered, her voice shaking, ‘you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.‘”
#April2023
“I hate to point out the obvious, but here‘s this tiny bird that‘s been trying to get through a huge bulletproof glass wall. A totally impossible situation. You tell me it‘s been here every day pecking away persistently for ten minutes. Well, today the glass wall came down.”
#April2023
“Libraries were full of ideas - perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
#April2023
“It begins with absence and desire. It begins with blood and fear. It begins with a discovery of witches.”
#March2023
“Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?”
#February2023
“‘Because that is how one survives eternity,‘ I say, ‘or even a few years. Friends. Family. Moving with them. Moving forward.‘”
#February2023
“Amren put a hand above Nestas heart. ‘That‘s the key, isn‘t it? To know the darkness will always remain, but how you choose to face it, handle it…that‘s the most important part. To not let it consume. To focus upon the good, the things that fill you with wonder.‘ She gestured to the stars zooming past. ‘The struggle with that darkness is worth it, just to see such things.‘”
#February2023
“But if you stay, no part of this comm gets to decide that any part of this comm is expendable. No voting on who gets to be people.”
#February2023
“Let‘s start with the end of the world, why don‘t we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.”
#January2023
“To the dreams that are answered, Rys.”
#January2023
“I lie down on my back and look up at the stars, thousands of white lights in a sea of darkness. Sometimes I‘m overwhelmed by it all, the vastness of this life, the absolute miracle it is that I exist in this moment in time. How much magic is out in the universe, stretching beyond what the eye can see, reaching distances the mind can‘t even comprehend?”
#January2023
“‘Time to ride, Dandelion.‘
‘Where to?‘
‘Isn‘t it all the same?‘
‘Yes, by and large. Let‘s go.‘”
#December2022
“Some people, given the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don‘t need much encouragement at all to become monsters.”
#December2022
“‘We won‘t manage to do much more than we‘re capable of,‘ he said more quietly and more warmly. ‘But we shall all do our best to make sure it won‘t be much less.‘”
#November2022
“All of you, you miss too much, looking down instead of out. A screen is no match for reality.”
#November2022
“That you understand how wrong it is to judge someone before you know their whole story.”
#November2022
