From Quotes

“But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day?”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space. ”
― Guy de Maupassant

“So that in the nature of man,
we find three principal causes of quarrel:

First, Competition;
Secondly, Dissidence;
Thirdly, Glory.

The first, maketh men invade for Gain;
the second, for Safety;
and the third, for Reputation.

The first use Violence, to make themselves Masters of other men's persons, wives, children and cattle;
the second, to defend them;
the third, for trifles, as a word, a smile, a different opinion, and any other sign of undervalue, either direct in their Persons, or by reflexion in their Kindred, their Friends, their Nation, their Profession, or their Name.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

“Girl! I'm here to make you look Fa-Bu-Lous!”
― Fake Cinna

“the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.”
― William Faulkner, Barn Burning and other stories

“Don't bruise the Foo!”
― Christopher Moore

“sixty years old and lives for the 3 f's--friends, family, and France.”
― Jamie Ivey

“To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.”
― Steven Magee

“For she acted exactly as she pleased, laughed at his strictures against her behaviour, her friends, his lectures on 'respectability'. She was the first woman in his existence who had a life of her own, who did things simply because they pleased her, who argued, who asserted herself. There was only one role he was equipped to play which was to resist, to the bitter end, this encroachment as he saw it on his authority, his manhood. And bitter it became.”
― Olive Senior, Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories

“Do things which make you feel reborn, don't try to fit in somebody's expectations. You always make somebody to get dissapointed from you.”
― Deyth Banger

“These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another procedure altogether) every time I thought of selling the damn thing and buying a Toyota. I hope you benefit from this and preserve your ailing finances!
Good luck!”
― Christina Engela, Bugspray

“Run... That's what's going to save you from the deadly virus

"PORNOGRAPHY”
― Deyth Banger

“It started somewhere from there.”
― Deyth Banger, Bridge Of Writing

“But how could he have, when women themselves had suddenly gone insane, were rejecting the direction, the protection, that their menfolk offered them, were recklessly plunging off on their own into unknown and unspeakable depths?”
― Olive Senior, Arrival of the Snake-Woman and Other Stories

“Where are y'all from . . . I am from 42 miles from 42nd Street”
― Kevin Kolenda

“How do you explain a war?", he asks himself, "How can you try and make sense of something that doesn't make any sense?”
― Maricla Pannocchia, Letters from Afghanistan

“I feel like being run over by a train: how couldn't I see, or care? I have much more than I need when it comes to material things as well as opportunities. I can basically do everything I want. Sure, my parents can still tell me where to go or what to do, but they don‟t impose their views on me. They will never marry me off. They will never forbid me to go to school. They will always do their best to make sure I‟ll be happy, healthy and safe.
And what have I done to deserve all this?
Absolutely nothing.
It was a chance of luck, and that makes me responsible toward those who have not been as lucky as me.”
― Maricla Pannocchia, Letters from Afghanistan

“Some people are hens. Others are like eagles.”
― Maricla Pannocchia, Letters from Afghanistan

“My life has always been so easy. Everything here is so simple.
Problems are not really problems. I‟ve never felt cornered, hurt or threatened in my whole life. If someone would abuse me, or scare me, like a bully, I could always get the help of a parent or a teacher, or even the police.
I admire Basya so much.
I don‟t know how she can be so strong, then I realize she has no choice. The alternative is giving up, and she‟ll never give up.
She could stop her education like her friend Silsila”
― Maricla Pannocchia, Letters from Afghanistan

“My life has always been so easy. Everything here is so simple.
Problems are not really problems. I‟ve never felt cornered, hurt or threatened in my whole life. If someone would abuse me, or scare me, like a bully, I could always get the help of a parent or a teacher, or even the police.
I admire Basya so much.
I don‟t know how she can be so strong, then I realize she has no choice. The alternative is giving up, and she‟ll never give up.”
― Maricla Pannocchia, Letters from Afghanistan

“Stop working towards stuff. Work from it. In this sense, the future is the present and time collapses. You have what you want and thereby can do what you need.”
― Richie Norton

“Learn from Florida’s mistakes!”
― Steven Magee

“When you learn something from a mistake, it's not a mistake; it's a lesson for your wellbeing and growth.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“And he kissed her. And kissed her. And kissed her – slowly, hungrily, as though he needed her breath just as much as her body.”
― N. von Wolf, From Valhalla

“...Our hearts…’ he paused, exhaling as if the truth cost him something, ‘they have frayed with time. Centuries spent clawing at systems, war, governance… control… and somewhere along the way, we forgot how to be human.”
― N. von Wolf, From Valhalla

“This won’t be soft. This won’t be sweet. This won’t be gentle.”
― N. von Wolf, From Valhalla

“Survival wasn’t always about dignity. Sometimes, it meant fighting fire with fire, even if the flames left you singed.”
― N. von Wolf, From Valhalla

“Chains chosen are still chains. But another voice stirred beneath it. Quieter – more dangerous. Chains chosen might be loosened. Bent. Re-forged.”
― N. von Wolf, From Valhalla

“She had been shaped to be silent, sharpened to please, polished into something beautiful enough to bind. But the hands that broke her had also forged her – each chain a lesson, each collar a scar turned sigil.”
― N. von Wolf, From Valhalla

“Magnus with his silken hunger and devouring eyes. Erik with his brutal tenderness, his mouth full of vows and vengeance. She was theirs now, as they were hers – claimed not with rings, but with teeth and fury.”
― N. von Wolf, From Valhalla