“None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Forest Mage
“A leaf turns in the wind, and you suddenly have a different perception of what colour it is.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Forest Mage
“It was all so meaningless when I looked at it that way. It was meaningless in the same way as when I stood up from a game and then looked down on the scatter of playing pieces, and realized that they all were just bits of polished stone on a wooden board marked with squares. All the meaning they'd had moments before when I'd been trying to win a game were meanings that I'd imbued them with. Of themselves, neither they nor the board had any significance.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Forest Mage
“Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Forest Mage
“Isolation was better than shame. I would continue on my own. This was my fight and no one else”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Forest Mage
“Any future can be!” she replied, laughing at me. “If it were not so, if it were fixed, it would be a past. You say a foolish thing. How can a future be impossible?”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Forest Mage
“They need other people to make them think they’re alive. They only feel like they’re important if someone else tells them they are.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Forest Mage
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“What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?”
― Joss Whedon, quote from Astonishing X-Men, Volume 4: Unstoppable
“Когда Джонатан убедился, что суть человеческой свободы состоит во
владении общим на весь этаж туалетом и что он располагает этой существенной
свободой, его охватило чувство глубокого удовлетворения. Да, все-таки жизнь
свою он устроил хорошо! Его существование можно целиком и полностью назвать
счастливым. В нем ничего не было, а это тем более означает, что в нем не о
чем жалеть и незачем завидовать другим людям.”
― Patrick Süskind, quote from The Pigeon
“That was back when all of us were students at Jefferson Elementary, and our quirks and strange rough edges hadn't fully formed yet”
― Jennifer Mathieu, quote from The Truth About Alice
“Love if life, and you are my love...You are my entire life.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Heart Recaptured
“Barack Obama, in a 2007 stump speech for his nascent presidential campaign, had pledged, ‘No more illegal wiretapping of American citizens. No more National Security Letters to spy on American citizens who are not suspected of a crime. No more tracking citizens who do no more than protest a misguided war. No more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient.”
― Luke Harding, quote from The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man
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