“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
“The man who waits for reality to write the truth inside his soul waits in vain.”
― Leonard Peikoff, quote from Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“Zircoff," I said, "put the tomatoes away."
"Piss," he said, "I wish they were hand grenades.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from South of No North
“You can control any situation if you first control yourself.”
― quote from The Game Of Life How To Play It
“Evolution has produced us more recently, and that makes us the smartest ever. After all, we invented the parking lot.”
― N.D. Wilson, quote from Leepike Ridge
“Get action, do things; be sane,” he once raved, “don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody: get action.”
― Richard Hofstadter, quote from The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
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