“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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“What are you looking at?" Jordan demanded finally, watching
her.
"A dragon." When he looked bewildered she lifted her arm and pointed to the sky in the southeast. "Right there—that cloud—what do you see when you look at it?"
"A fat cloud."
Alexandra rolled her eyes at him. "What else do you see?"
He was quiet for a moment studying the sky. "Five more fat clouds
and three thin ones.”
― Judith McNaught, quote from Something Wonderful
“Someone once told me that writing is an act of faith. Another person told me that forgiving is also an act of faith. That’s true. I think both heal, both are arts. What a fine thing it is to do both at once.”
― Kaye Gibbons, quote from Ellen Foster
“Лесно решение би било да обвиня нашата пропаганда, каквато например тук се налага на войската от обершарфюфер Кнител, който ръководи Kulturabteilung: Häftling е непълноценен човек, дори не е човешко същество, следователно е съвсем законно да бъде бит. Но не е съвсем така: в крайна сметка животните също не са хора, но никой от нашите надзиратели не би се отнасял към някое животно както към Häftlinge. Пропагандата определено играе определена роля, но по по-сложен начин. Стигнах до извода, че надзирателят от SS не се превръща в насилник или садист, защото мисли, че затворникът не е човешко същество; тъкмо обратното, яростта му се увеличава и става садистична, когато си даде сметка, че затворникът не само не е непълноценен човек, както са му казали, а всъщност е човек като него и именно тази устойчивост, разбирате ли, надзирателят намира за непоносима, това безмълвно постоянство на другия, и тогава надзирателят го бие, опитвайки се да заличи общата им човешка същност. Разбира се, не се получава: колкото повече надзирателят удря, толкова повече е принуден да приеме, че затворникът отказва да се признае за непълноценен човек. Накрая като единствено разрешение му остава да го убие, което представлява окончателен провал.”
― Jonathan Littell, quote from The Kindly Ones
“Sometimes you think you want something,” Arin told him, “when what you need is to let it go.”
― Marie Rutkoski, quote from The Winner's Crime
“No, it's not, Holmesy. You pick your endings, and your beginnings. You get to pick the frame, you know? Maybe you don't choose what's in the picture, but you decide the frame.”
― John Green, quote from Turtles All the Way Down
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