Every act intends some good.
Brent Weeks, The Broken Eye.
“Hope is the great deceiver. Hope is the piper who leads us sleepy to our slaughter.”
“This world has only two kinds of people: villains and smiling villains.”
“...Many shadows hide behind light, and the best lies are those seasoned liberally with truth: salt covering the flavor of rotten meat.”
“He kissed her. And she kissed him. And it was infatuation, and it was hunger, and it was longing to be loved, and it was an all-consuming fire so hot it devoured worry and loneliness and fear and t...”
“..More choices in a limited time didn't mean didn't mean you could do everything-it meant that you could do anything, so you probably did nothing, frozen with indecision.”
“He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster.”
“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”
“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”
“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
“Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make...”
“Be a good human.”
“Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”
“All evil and good is petty before Nature. Personally, we take comfort from this, that there is a universe to admire that cannot be twisted to villainy or good, but which simply is.”
“Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tem...”
“You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.”