“You are my daughter. I would love you if you put out the sun.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“I am the palm and this is only wind. I will bend, but I will not break.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own drama, I forget I'm not the only one in the play.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Fear and pain are only wind. Let it blow past you.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Cowards kill as often as heroes”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Great things can be found in small talk”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Pain teaches, Par’chin, Jardir had once told him, and so we give it freely. Pleasure teaches nothing, and so must be earned.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“We all make mistakes, Gared. But those that can see ’em are halfway to being better men.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“Plant the seeds you have, the Evejah’ting said. For they may bear unexpected fruit.”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“The future was a living thing, and could never be truly known. It rippled with change whenever someone used free will to make a choice. But”
― Peter V. Brett, quote from The Daylight War
“So I do have this ambivalence. Obviously I'm against militaries, because of what militaries do. In many ways though, the air force was unmilitary-like. They dropped bombs on people, but...they had a golf course.”
― George Carlin, quote from Last Words
“Tear It Down"
We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining the morning,
we find a morning that comes just after darkness.
We can break through marriage into marriage.
By insisting on love we spoil it, get beyond
affection and wade mouth-deep into love.
We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.
But going back toward childhood will not help.
The village is not better than Pittsburgh.
Only Pittsburgh is more than Pittsburgh.
Rome is better than Rome in the same way the sound
of racoon tongues licking the inside walls
of the garbage tub is more than the stir
of them in the muck of the garbage. Love is not
enough. We die and are put into the earth forever.
We should insist while there is still time. We must
eat through the wildness of her sweet body already
in our bed to reach the body within the body.”
― Jack Gilbert, quote from The Great Fires
“What if the greatest love story ever told was the wrong one?”
― Rebecca Serle, quote from When You Were Mine
“Oh, my dear friend, it is impossible not to give oneself away - unless one never opens one's mouth! Speech is the deadliest of revealers.”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Cards on the Table
“It was typical of Washington’s style of leadership to present a promising proposal as someone else’s idea, rather than his own.”
― David Hackett Fischer, quote from Washington's Crossing
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