“If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Shatterglass
“Don't threaten someone unless you're certain you can carry out the threat.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Shatterglass
“The hardest lesson any of us must learn is there’s only so much we can do,” she informed him, her voice lemon-tart. “We run into it headfirst all the time, knowing what we can do, what we can’t, how much we can do. We think of magic as this promise that we will fix anything that comes our way, Keth. We can’t.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Shatterglass
“Scrying the wind is very difficult, Tris,” Niko said gently. “It’s like scrying the future. You’re assailed with thousands of images — fragments, really. It drives many who try it insane.” “You learned to scry the future,” Tris pointed out. “And a number of people have informed me they think I am mad,” Niko replied, his voice very dry.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Shatterglass
“It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.”
― Tamora Pierce, quote from Shatterglass
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“There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care.”
― Andrea Levy, quote from Small Island
“A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing. You could put your bishop out there to mate the other guy’s king, and he could lean down and whisper in your bishop’s ear, and suddenly it’s playing for him, and moving like a rook. And you’re fucked.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“الفرد في كل نشاط تلقائي يعانق العالم. فلا تظل نفسه الفردية لم تُقضَ فحسب, بل هي تصبح اكثر قوة واشد صلابة. فالنفس تكون قوية بقدر ما تكون نشطة. لا يوجد اية قوة اصيلة في التملك كتملك, لا في الملكية المادية ولا في الصفات الذهنية مثل الانفعالات او الافكار. كما انه لا يوجد ايضا قوة في استخدام واستغلال الموضوعات, ان ما نستخدمه ليس ملكنا بكل بساطة لاننا نستخدمه. ان ما هو ملكنا هو فقط الذي نرتبط به بنشاطنا الخلاق سواء كان هذا شخصا او موضوعا غير حي. ان تلك الصفات الناجمة عن نشاطنا التلقائي هي وحدها التي تعطي قوة للنفس ومن ثم تكوّن اساس التكامل. والعجز عن السلوك تلقائيا والتعبير عما يشعر به المرء ويفكر فيه بأصالة والضرورة الناجمة لتقديم نفس زائفة للآخرين وللانسان هي كلها جذر الشعور بالدونية والضعف. وسواء كنا ندري هذا ام لا, فلا شيء يدعونا الى الخجل اكثر من الا نكون انفسنا, ولا يوجد شيء يمكن ان يعطينا فخارا وسعادة اكثر من التفكير والشعور والقول بما هو نحن.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
“I accept you, I tell him. All of you. The broken parts. The bent parts. The ones filled with shame. The cracks where hope seeps through. The little boy cowering in fear and the grown man still suffocating in his shadow. The demons that haunt. Your will to survive. And your spirit that fights. Every single part of you is what I love. What I accept. What I want to help heal.”
― K. Bromberg, quote from Crashed
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