40 quotes found
“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”
“I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.”
“They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.”
“Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.”
“The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.”
“The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.”
“Yet I now ask of youare you marauders or are you servants? Do you give power to others, or do you hoard it? Do you fight not to have something, but rather fight so that others might one day have so...”
“I have taken many lives in my life. Many children, perhaps husbands, wives, parents. Perhaps it is only just that this same violation was inflicted upon me. Perhaps it is just that one who lives a ...”
“You are wrong, says the man. His voice is low and resonant. The metal walls of the dome, all the knives and swords and spears, all seem to vibrate with each of his words. Your rulers and their prop...”
“But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the...”
“I have never met a person who possessed a privilege who did not exercise that privilege to the fullest extent that they possibly could. Say what you like of a belief...of a party...of a finance sys...”
“And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.”
“What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.”
“...there is no better time to examine and understand ones selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.”
“The word everyone forgets is 'serve'...Yes. Serve. This is the service, and we soldiers are servants. Sure, when people think of a soldier, they think of soldiers taking. They think of us taking te...”
“A soldier serves not to take, they don't strive to have something, but rather they strive so that others might one day have something. And a blade isn't a happy friend to a soldier, but a burden, a...”
“Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.”
“One has no room for vengeance,' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.”
“What I'm going to do up here, kid, is tell you a story. Like all stories, it's an attempt to make sense of something larger than itself. And, like most stories, it fails, to a certain degree. It's ...”
“Sometimes I cant tell if you hate this place or love it.I love its potential. I hate its past. And I dont like what it is. She hugs her knees close to her chest. The way you feel about the place yo...”
“No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. Thats all I want just to be close.”
“I am sorrowful. I am sorrowful that I happened to be born into a world where being disgusted with yourself was what you were supposed to be. I am sorrowful that my fellow countrymen feel that being...”
“I am penitent," says Vohannes. "I am penitent for all the relationships this shame has ruined. I am penitent that I've allowed my shame and unhappiness to spread to others. I've fucked men and I've...”
“I don't have the time or the energy to hate," says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.”
“Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.”
