“I am a great believer that anything not expressly forbidden is explicitly allowed.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“May I say that I approve of a piece that tries to remake the entire puzzle?”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“The most important thing is to be true to yourself, however you feel, and not try to feel or behave differently because you think you should, or someone has told you how you must feel. But do think about it. Unexamined feelings lead to all kinds of trouble.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“A passion thwarted will often go astray.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“I don’t particularly want to meet anyone. I’m quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“Some were Charter Mages, and there would not be time to argue rights and wrongs, so any aggressive magic he used would be countered or negated by these others, as was the nature of Charter Magic.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“What do you mean? I am Mogget, of course. The one and only Mogget. Though I have had other names.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“as if they were crazed stoats that had to be got rid of before they killed again.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
“[Lunch] was composed of one of the fish she had caught, evidently rescued from Mogget. This had been grilled with ginger, pepper, and some spice she didn't know, set atop a salad of grains and greenleaf, accompanied by a lightly sparkling clear wine she had to admit was delicious and refreshing.”
― Garth Nix, quote from Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen
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“Like all those who live in touch with nature and have known want, he was patient and could wait for hours, even days without growing restless or irritable”
― Leo Tolstoy, quote from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy, Fiction, Classics
“I have suggested creation is a work guaranteed by the king. The king is the one charged to order and preserve creation, and thus the return to chaos implicitly announces the failure of kingship and its end.”
― Walter Brueggemann, quote from The Prophetic Imagination
“He would never know know her. Such intimacy but no communication, because words - even if she could speak or write them - could never explain her world to him.”
― Mary Balogh, quote from Silent Melody
“Против некоего определённого вида тупости я бессилен.”
― François Mauriac, quote from Viper's Tangle
“Oversharing? Not vulnerability; I call it floodlighting. ... A lot of times we share too much information as a way to protect us from vulnerability, and here's why.
I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt -- the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very well or I'm in front of a big group, or it's a story that I haven't processed enough to be sharing with other people - and you immediately respond "hands up; push me away" and I go, "See? No one cares about me. No one gives a s*** that I'm hurting. I knew it."
It's how we protect ourselves from vulnerability. We just engage in a behavior that confirms our fear.”
― Brené Brown, quote from The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connections and Courage
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