Estelle Maskame · 422 pages
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“I really wish you hadn't said sorry for it. Because apologizing means regretting.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Love You?
“Forgiveness shouldn't be expected : It should be earned.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Love You?
“I already miss him and he hasn't even left yet.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Love You?
“We have sneered at one another's weaknesses. Mine is insecurity. Tyler's is the truth.
And beneath it all lies attraction.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Love You?
“That's something I've always fond odd, people smile when they're sad. There's no such thing as a sad smile.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Love You?
“Dark haired guys are so, so much better.”
― Estelle Maskame, quote from Did I Mention I Love You?
“...There were precious few people you could trust, so if you wanted to survive, you'd better always look out for Number One.”
― Lara Adrian, quote from Midnight Rising
“How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, quote from Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
“Once we have broken free of the prejudices of our own provincially limited ecclesiastical, tribal, or national rendition of the world archetypes, it becomes possible to understand that the supreme initiation is not that of the local motherly fathers, who then project aggression onto the neighbors for their own defense. The good news, which the World Redeemer brings and which so many have been glad to hear, zealous to preach, but reluctant, apparently, to demonstrate, is that God is love, the He can be, and is to be, loved, and that all without exception are his children. Such comparatively trivial matters as the remaining details of the credo, the techniques of worship, and devices of episcopal organization (which have so absorbed the interest of Occidental theologians that they are today seriously discussed as the principal questions of religion), are merely pedantic snares, unless kept ancillary to the major teaching. Indeed, where not so kept, they have the regressive effect: they reduce the father image back again to the dimensions of the totem. And this, of course, is what has happened throughout the Christian world. One would think that we had been called upon to decide or to know whom, of all of us, the Father prefers. Whereas, the teaching is much less flattering: "Judge not, that ye be not judged." The World Savior's cross, in spite of the behavior of its professed priests, is a vastly more democratic symbol than the local flag.”
― Joseph Campbell, quote from The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.”
― Julie Kagawa, quote from The Eternity Cure
“Ah, yes, the trusty time paradox. If I go back in time and kill my grandfather, then shall I cease to exist? I believe, as Gorben and Berndt did, that any repercussions are already being felt. We can only change the future, not the past or present. If I go back, then I have already been back.
- Artemis Fowl”
― Eoin Colfer, quote from The Time Paradox
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