30 quotes found
“True monsters are not those lurking under the bed, but the ones sleeping in it.”
“Fate has a cruel sense of humor, don't you think?”
“Now that lilacs are in bloomShe has a bowl of lilacs in her roomAnd twists one in her fingers while she talks."Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not knowWhat life is, you who hold it in your h...”
“Hugo, we are taught to be advanced in every form from academically to socially. I think our parents fucked it up, taking that advancement for granted. They wanted us to grow up with everything and ...”
“Dragon kind was no less cruel than mankind. The Dragon, at least, acted from bestial need rather than bestial greed.~ A thought by Lessa ~”
“Against a set of desolate scenery, amid spectral crags and livid mountains of ash, beneath the funereal daylight of slopes illuminated in blue, she personified the spirit of the witches' sabbat. Mo...”
“Time is the cruelest force of all.”
“I thought of Sammy Glick rocking in his cradle of hate, malnutrition, prejudice, suspicions, amorality, the anarchy of the poor; I thought of him as a mangy puppy in a dog-eat-dog world. I was modu...”
“If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"The dragon was silent for a long time after this question. And at last he said: "It just came over me. I don't know ...”
“It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.”
