26 quotes found
“Madness, and then illumination.”
“The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.”
“If words can be lethal weapons, I must provide them with an arsenal.”
“Grief, she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.”
“With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.”
“The only way to retrieve a secret,once known, is to replace it with a lie.”
“When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is...”
“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete ...”
“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
“someone's senta loving notein lines of returning geeseand as the moon fillsmy western chamberas petals danceover the flowing streamagain I think of youthe two of usliving a sadnessaparta hurt that ...”
“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”
“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidenceYou believe that the story is true, because you responded t...”
“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good ...”
“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.”
“Hive Queen: So many of your people are becoming Christians. Believing in the god these humans brought with them.Human: You dont believe in God?Hive Queen: The question never came up. We have always...”
“Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew.""He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six.""Right.""And you're th...”
“You will soon learn that there ARE no strange stars, no alien skies"- No?"Only skies and stars, in all their varieties. Each one with its own flavour, and all flavours good"- Now YOU think like a t...”
“If you asked me to marry you all over again today I'd say yes, said Valentine.And if I had only met you for the first time today, I'd ask.”
“Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.”
“Every day people judge all other people. The question is whether they judge wisely.”
“Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.”
