“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
“The more I get to know Jesus, the more trouble he seems to get me into.”
― Shane Claiborne, quote from The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Wśród naszego rodzaju utrzymuje się zdumiewający pociąg ku temu, co "ostatnie" i "utracone". Wartość przeżycia czegoś, z czego również przyszłe pokolenia będą czerpać radość, nie może się w żaden sposób mierzyć z wartością zobaczenia tego, co później popadnie w ruinę. Ten widzi, kto widzi ostatni. Podobnie rozpowszechniony jest zwyczaj kłócenia się krewnych i przyjaciół o to, kto ostatni zamienił słowo ze zmarłym. W miarę zmniejszania się naszej planety i odkrywania przez przemysł turystyczny coraz to nowych nisz i nisz w niszach wróżę świetlaną przyszłość nekroturystyce. "Zobaczcie wymarły Bajkał!", "Jeszcze tylko kilka lat, a Malediwy znajdą się pod wodą!", "Ty możesz być ostatnim człowiekiem, który oglądał żywego tygrysa!".”
― Jostein Gaarder, quote from Maya
“all I want to know.” “You just”
― Laurann Dohner, quote from Obsidian
“Fear and pain are only wind. Let it blow past you.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“The worst part, he realized as he destroyed first one vampire, and then another, was that he didn’t care. He welcomed it, embraced it, and relished in the death around him as it briefly calmed his tormented spirit.”
― Erica Stevens, quote from Salvation
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