“I’ve never been angry to have been born a woman. There have been times I’ve been angry at how the world treats us, but I see being a woman as a challenge I must fight. Like being born under a stormy sky. Some people are lucky enough to be born on a bright summer’s day. Maybe we were born under clouds. No wind. No rain. Just a mountain of clouds we must climb each morning so that we may see the sun.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“I believe the stars align so souls can find one another. Whether they are meant to be souls in love or souls in life remains to be seen.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Be as swift as the wind. As silent as the forest. As fierce as the fire. As unshakable as the mountain. And you can do anything...”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“You are first and foremost a person. A reckless, foolish person, but a person nonetheless. If I ever say you are not permitted to do something, rest assured that the last reason I would ever say so would be because you are a girl.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Sometimes we must fall forward to keep moving. Remain motionless—remain unyielding—and you are as good as dead.
Death follows indecision, like a twisted shadow. Fall forward. Keep moving. Even if you must pick yourself up first.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“If I am marching to my death, then I will march to it as a girl. Without fear.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“The only power any man has over you is the power you give him.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“You don't know the beginning of me." She trembled as she spoke. "And . . . you will never see the end.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“There is such strength in being a woman. But it is a strength you must choose for yourself. No one can choose it for you. We can bend the wind to our ear if we would only try.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Until nothing at all existed between them.
But shared breaths.
And unspoken promises.
Lies.
And unshakable truth.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“The stars could fall - the moon could crash from the heavens - and Mariko could not care.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Beautiful words were beautiful words, even to the most practical of minds.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“The entire time she'd watched him - waited for him to join her, even in death - her features had remained serene. A flame in the mist.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“But Mariko knew it was time to do more. Time to be more.
She would not die a coward. Mariko was the daughter of
a samurai. The sister of the Dragon of Kai. But more than that, she still held power over her decisions. For at least this one last day. She would face her enemy. And die with honor.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Bravery did not come to her naturally. She spent too much time weighing her options to be brave. Too much time calculating the many paths before her. But Mariko knew it was time to do more. Time to be more. She would not die a coward.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“She remembered Chiyo telling her that finding one's match was like finding one's other half. Mariko had never understood the notion.
She was not a half. She was wholly her own.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“The air between them filled with all that remained unsaid. All that should be said.
Yet wasn't.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Control is an illusion. Expectations will not rule my days. Not anymore.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Perhaps true weakness is weakness of the spirit”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Curious had been the word most often ascribed to her
when she was younger. She’d been the watchful sort of child. The one conscious of every mistake. When Mariko had erred, it had usually been intentional. An attempt to push barriers. Or a desire to learn. Usually it was that. A wish to know more. As she grew from a curious child into an even more curious young woman, the word she most often overheard at her back was odd. Much too odd. Far too prone to asking questions.
Far too apt to linger in places she wasn’t meant to be.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Words are foolish. Promises are useless. Anyone can say anything to get what it is they desire. Believe in actions and actions alone.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Stay or go. I leave it to you. But you are welcome always. In all ways.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“I deny being a slave to any one thing. In any situation we can choose who we are and choose who we want to be.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Are you ever angry you were born a woman?"
"I've never been angry to have been born a woman. There have been times I've been angry at how the world treats us.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“She refused to die like an animal locked in a cage. Like a girl with nothing to save her name. Better to die by the sword. Better to die at the mercy of the nightbeasts. To die in the night air. Free.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Believe in actions and actions alone.”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“This boy did not take steps. He glided like a shark through the water. And like the sea, the members of the Black Clan parted around him”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“Without risk, life is far too predictable”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
“She’d fought off her assailant. And in doing so, she’d displayed one of the seven virtues of bushidō: Courage. The way of the warrior. Mariko”
― Renee Ahdieh, quote from Flame in the Mist
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“Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified or the acts of stressed combatants. In my travels, I sense a smoldering resentment towards WWII Japanese behavior among some Americans. Ironically, these feelings are strongest among the younger American generation that did not fight in WWII. In my experience, the Pacific vets on both sides have made their peace. And in terms of judgments, I will leave it to those who were there. As Ray Gallagher, who flew on both atomic missions against Hiroshima and Nagasaki argues, "When you're not at war you're a good second guesser. You had to live those years and walk that mile.”
― James D. Bradley, quote from Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
“She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life.”
― Orhan Pamuk, quote from The Museum of Innocence
“For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity.”
― Sebastian Barry, quote from The Secret Scripture
“It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“Así que, bueno, si me pides una respuesta clara a la pregunta de si intento hablarte de un hombre o de la leyenda que fue creciendo alrededor de ese hombre como lo hace la perla alrededor de un granito de arena, tendría que decirte que la respuesta está en algún punto intermedio entre hombre y leyenda. Lo único que sé a ciencia cierta es que Andy Dufresne no era como yo ni como ningún otro individuo que yo haya conocido desde que estoy en la cárcel. Entró en la cárcel con quinientos dólares en su puerta trasera, pero aquel sesudo hijo de perra logró no sé cómo entrar también con algo más. Un sentido de su propia valía, quizás, o la certeza de que al final ganaría él... o quizá fuera sólo el sentido de la libertad, dentro incluso de estos muros grises malditos. Era una especie de luz interior que llevaba consigo a todas partes. Sólo una vez le vi perder esa luz, y también eso forma parte de esta historia.”
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