“For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.”
“For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.”
“I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death”
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
“PROMETHEUS: 'Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers”
“Your speech is pompous sounding, full of pride, as fits the lackey of the Gods. You are young and young your rule and you think the tower in which you live is free from sorrow: from it have I not seen two tyrants thrown? The third, who now is king, I shall yet live to see him fall, of all three most suddenly, most dishonored. Do you think I will crouch before your Gods, -so new-and tremble? I am far from that.”
“When one is wise, it's wisest to seem foolish.”
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.”
“I take my cue from deeds, not words.”
“Sorrow with me, Sorrowful one!
Tell me, whose voice proclaims
Things true and sad,
Naming by all their old, unhappy names,
What drove me mad--”
“There is no sickness worse for me that words that to be kind must lie.”
“For obstinacy standing alone is the weakest of all things in one whose mind is not possessed by wisdom.”
“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.”
“Un sabio, sí, era un sabio quien por primera vez alzó en su mente y con su lengua expresó que la boda con un igual es lo mejor, con mucho, y que ni con quienes por su riqueza viven en la molicie ni con quienes por su linaje están ensoberbecidos, cuando uno es un jornalero, ha de ambicionar casarse...”
“Do not labor uselessly at what helps not at all.”
“This is a sickness rooted and inherent in the nature of a tyranny: that he that holds it does not trust his friends.”
“Time in its aging course teaches all things.”
“Trust my folly then, since it is best
for a man truly wise to be thought a fool.”
“Sheriff Root: "Ask Me, I reckon it was niggers"
Deputy: "How you reckon that, Sheriff Root?"
Sheriff Root: "Kinda thing they do"
Deputy: "What, burn two hundred people to death, right down to the bone? They do that?"
Sheriff Root: "MARTIAN niggers”
“Realizing she was only wearing a towel, she said, 'Leave.'
'I tried to. Couldn't do it. A conscience is a terrible thing to acquire. Like it or not, you and I are going to be bonded.'
'Bonded?' She shook her head, only to realize that any kind of movement made the pain worse.
His gaze swept over her towel-covered body 'It could be worse. You could be ugly.'
'Get out of my bathroom!”
“Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.”
“The whole watching me from
afar thing is kind of creepy, you know. I get that you don't trust me, but stalking is only cool when
Edward Cullen does it.”
“When I paid close attention to Rex, it was like I escaped the present. Kind of like I do when I’m reading. It’s so fucked. I started reading and making up stories to escape how shitty things were. Then, that habit made it hard for me to be back in the real world—hard to connect with anyone. Which made me super self-conscious and want to escape. Jesus. Anyway, I’ve decided that if I’m going to escape, it’s better to escape into Rex than into a fantasy world where no one will ever find me.”
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