“When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.”
― Nick Lake, quote from In Darkness
“It's like she had a soul that was much too big for her; it filled her to the brim till there was no more space, so it flowed out through her eyes.”
― Nick Lake, quote from In Darkness
“In darkness, I count my blessings like Manman taught me.
One: I am alive.
Two: there is no two.”
― Nick Lake, quote from In Darkness
“One could call a master a good master because he did not whip his slaves, but ultimately he was still and owner of men, and men were not made to be owned.”
― Nick Lake, quote from In Darkness
“In point of fact, he was not afraid to die, not anymore. He now understood with a faith that he had never before possessed that he would see those he had lost when he died, that everything would be made whole, that he would talk to Boukman, and his mother and father and sister, again. It was true that there was no need on earth that could not be slaked and satisfied. When you are thirsty there is water. When you are hungry there is food. It is impossible to need a thing without that thing being available for the having. A man may want a green horse that flies, but he canot need one, for there is no such thing.
At this precise moment, Toussaint felt that he needed Boukman, that he could not bear it if he never saw him again, and he knew, because this need existed, that it would be met.”
― Nick Lake, quote from In Darkness
“He owns them more completely than if he had seized their balls in his hands”
― Nick Lake, quote from In Darkness
“Behind the mountain is another mountain; behind the fire is another fire.”
― Nick Lake, quote from In Darkness
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“One small changed family doesn't calculate into a world that has been spinning for a billion years. But one small change makes the world spin differently in a billion ways for one family.”
― Mary E. Pearson, quote from The Adoration of Jenna Fox
“O zamana değin, çocukken insana sonsuz gibi görünen bir yolda yılların yavaş yavaş ve hafifçe geçtiği, böylece hiç kimsenin akıp gittiklerinin ayırdına varmadığı bir yolda, hep ilk gençliğinin kaygısızlığıyla ilerlemişti, insan bu yolda, sakin sakin, çevresine merakla bakarak ilerlerdi, aceleye gerçekten hiç gerek yoktu, ne arkanızda sizi sıkıştıran ne de tabii, bekleyen birileri bulunurdu, arkadaşlarınız da kaygısız, oynamak için sık sık durarak ilerlerlerdi. Evlerinin kapısından büyükler size dostça selam verir ve suç ortaklığı dolu gülüşlerle ufku gösterirlerdi; böylece yürek yiğitçe ve tatlı arzularla çarpmaya başlar ve insan kendisini az ötede bekleyen harikulade şeylerin umudunu tadar; gerçi o şeyler henüz uzaktadır ama bir gün onlara ulaşılacağı kesin, tartışmasız bir biçimde kesindir. Daha çok yol var mıdır? Yoo, şu ilerideki nehri geçmek, şu yeşil tepeleri aşmak yeterlidir. Belki de varmışızdır bile. Şu ağaçlar, kırlar, şu beyaz ev belki de bizim aradığımız şeylerdir. Bir an, bunun doğru olduğuna inanıp, orada durmak isteriz. Sonra, kulağımıza ileride daha iyisinin olduğu çalınır ve tasasız bir biçimde yeniden yola koyuluruz. İnsan, böylelikle, umut dolu, kendi yolunda gider durur; günler uzun ve sakindir, güneş yukarıda gökyüzünde parlamakta ve akşam bastığında üzülerek yok olmaya yüz tutmaktadır. Ama bir noktada, belki de içgüdüsel olarak, insan geri döner ve arkasında bir kapının kapanarak dönüşü olanaksız kıldığım fark eder. İşte o zaman bir şeylerin değişmiş olduğunun ayırdına varırız, güneş eskisi gibi kıpırtısız değildir, hızla hareket etmektedir; ne yazık ki, henüz bakmaya bile fırsat bulamadan, onun ufkun ucuna doğru hızla kaydığını, bulutların da gökyüzündeki mavi koylarda hareketsiz durmadığını, birbirlerinin üzerine çıkarak kaçtıklarını, iyice acele ettiklerini görürüz; zamanın geçtiğini ve günü gelince yolun zorunlu olarak son bulacağını anlarız. Belirli bir zamanda, arkamızda bir kapı kapanır, kapanır ve bir şimşek hızıyla kilitlenir; geri dönecek zaman kalmamıştır.”
― Dino Buzzati, quote from The Tartar Steppe
“People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.”
― Steve Toltz, quote from A Fraction of the Whole
“Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from The Devil and Miss Prym
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