“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves how bitterness tastes.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“We can endure any amount of sadness for the people we love.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“There is no greater strength than the ability to understand and accept your own flaws.” “Are”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“You can be the most powerful witch in the land, but you will always have a weakness, and that will always make you believe you have no power when someone exploits it. There is no greater strength than the ability to understand and accept your own flaws.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“The city rich are not like bees in a hive that work together to share honey for all. The city rich are like the jungle apes; they show off their red bottoms and beat their chests because they fear to be culled from the herd if they show weakness.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Let me be clear: I never intended to raise my brother from his grave, though he may claim otherwise.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Never give your heartglass away to anyone. Anyone else versed in magic can do you harm with it. People will never be what you make of them, but at least your own heart stays yours and true.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“But I feel so helpless.” “That is usually the rule when you are taken advantage of. You can be the most powerful witch in the land, but you will always have a weakness, and that will always make you believe you have no power when someone exploits it. There is no greater strength than the ability to understand and accept your own flaws.” “Are”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are rather than in what they expect you to be.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“When people cut us, we are expected to do only two things: smile and bleed.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“You think in the same way men drink, Tea,” my father once said, “far too much—under the delusion it is too little.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“but sometimes I think I need to remember who I was to have an idea of who I should be.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Everyone is a puzzle, Tea, made of interlocking tiles you must piece together to form a picture of their souls. But to successfully build them, you must have an idea of their strengths as well as their weaknesses. We all have them, even me.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“The first are performing asha, known for their dancing and their singing, though their magic may be weaker than others. The second are fighting asha, known for their magic and their prowess, though they may not be the most gracious of hosts. The third are Dark asha like us, the strongest of them all.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Everyone is believed to have two faces—one they show to the public and one they wear in private. The first face is their shaxsiat, or their honor. The second face is their ehteram, their dignity.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from A Pair of Blue Eyes
“I shall always remember the next day for one of the most beautiful experiences I have ever had. As we marched forward we caught sight, after a while, of the gleaming golden towers of a monastery in the far distance. Above them, shining superbly in the morning sun, were tremendous walls of ice, and we gradually realised that we were looking at the giant trio Dhaulagiri, Annapurna and Manaslu.”
― Heinrich Harrer, quote from Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
“Ahora ella está de frente a él. De golpe, Alberto descubre que el rostro tantas veces evocado en el colegio estás últimas semanas tenía una firmeza que no asoma en el rostro que ve a su lado, el mismo que vio en el cine Metro, o tras esa puerta, cuando se despidieron, un rostro cohibido, unos ojos tímidos que se apartan de los suyos y se abren y cierran como tocados por el sol de verano.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The Time of the Hero
“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical of decisions with virtually no input from anyone who had any expertise on the recent history of that part of the world, and it in no way factored in the entire experience of the French Indochina War. Part of the reason for this were the upheavals of the McCarthy period, but in part it was also the arrogance of men of the Atlantic; it was as if these men did not need to know about such a distant and somewhat less worthy part of the world. Lesser parts of the world attracted lesser men; years later I came upon a story which illustrated this theory perfectly. Jack Langguth, a writer and college classmate of mine, mentioned to a member of that Administration that he was thinking of going on to study Latin American history. The man had turned to him, his contempt barely concealed, and said, “Second-rate parts of the world for second-rate minds.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Best and the Brightest
“Hate is not wrong when you hate what is wrong.”
― Nick Cole, quote from The Old Man and the Wasteland
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