“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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“How do you say what's in your heart if your heart is something you haven't known for years? How do you give yourself completely when all you've done is bury yourself in grief? How do you come back from the dar when it's all you can remember?”
― T.J. Klune, quote from Into This River I Drown
“En los corazones de los hombres más temerarios hay cuerdas que no se dejan tocar sin emoción. Hasta en los más depravados, en quienes la vida y la muerte son siempre motivo de juego, hay cosas con las que no se puede bromear. Toda”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Masque of the Red Death
“worried about you, I’d never have asked Mia about it. Rather saw my tongue in half with a rusty kitchen knife. But I did ask her, and she’s not clear on it.’ ‘Honey, what you said before about knowing me, that’s true. Now what do you think my reaction is to what you just said?’ She hissed out a breath. ‘If he comes after her, he’ll have to get through you.’ ‘Close enough. Shouldn’t you be out on patrol, or would you rather take the paperwork portion of our day?’ ‘I’d rather eat lice.’ She put on her cap, yanked the tail of her hair through the back. ‘Look, I’m glad you found someone who suits you. I’m even more glad I like her. But there’s more to Nell Channing than a nice woman with a murky past who can bake like a team of angels.’ ‘You mean she’s a witch,’ he said easily. ‘Yeah, I figured that out. I’ve got no particular problem with it.’ So saying, he went back to the keyboard, chuckling to himself when Ripley slammed the door behind her. ‘The goddess doesn’t require sacrifice,’ Mia said. ‘She’s a mother. Like a mother, she requires respect, love, discipline, and wants happiness for her children.’ The evening was cool. Mia could already scent the end of summer. Soon her woods would change from green and lush to wild color. She’d already seen the woolly caterpillars, watched the busy squirrel hoarding”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Dance Upon the Air
“In politics,” said John Lindsay, “the perception is the reality.” So, too, in advertising, in business, and in life.”
― Al Ries, quote from Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind: How to Be Seen and Heard in the Overcrowded Marketplace
“There was religion, then there was God. Lianne wanted to disbelieve. Disbelief was the line of travel that led to clarity of thought and purpose. Or was this simply another form of superstition? She wanted to trust in the forces and processes of the natural world, this only, perceptible reality and scientific endeavor, men and women alone on earth. She knew there was no conflict between science and God. Take one with the other. But she didn't want to. There were the scholars and philosophers she'd studied in school, books she'd read at thrilling dispatches, personal, making her shake at times, and there was the sacred art she'd always loved. Doubters created this work, and ardent believers, and those who'd doubted and then believed, and she was free to think about doubt and believe simultaneously. But she didn't want to. God would crowd her, make her weaker. God would be a presence that remained unimaginable. She wanted this only, to snuff out the pulse of the shaky faith she'd held for much of her life.”
― Don DeLillo, quote from Falling Man
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