“There is a place deep, deep inside every person that is hidden and hard to find. If things get bad enough and life gets too hard, though, some people will go to that place and never come back from it. Certainly, all outward appearances will suggest otherwise. They will look as they always did. They may even act somewhat like their old selves, but the trut is, the real truth is that they are hiding in this place deep inside where no one can touch or hurt them anymore.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“My ma told me that there isn't anything in this life worth having that comes easy. She told me that every road I walk down's gonna have a price. But what she didn't tell me and what I learned since I've been here is that if you don't choose the road you're gonna walk, sooner or later someone else'll do that choosing for you.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“It seems to me that it don't hurt none to get yourself a dream and a plan. 'Cause if you don't, then you'll never go nowhere.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Like the birds I will fly.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“The fact of the matter is, the minute you get a mouthful of blue sky dancing across your taste buds there's no keeping you from it.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Remember how mean you where when we first met? Piper laughed and Conrad smiled and tentativly relaxed. Boy did you ever have everyone fooled because you're about the nicest person I ever met. Conrad blushed.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“If you don't choose the road you're gonna walk, sooner or later someone else'll do that choosing for you.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Dang! Look at that RAINBOW!" Piper shouted, accidently spewing bits of apple pie from her overstuffed mouth. All quickly turned and saw...
...exactly what Piper claimed, a rainbow.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“She says it’s wrong to be frittering away my hours asking questions when there’s work to be done. But I don’t see how a question can be wrong. Can you, Pa? Ma says the Bible sets out what’s right and wrong so we don’t have to bother ourselves with it none but it seems to me that it ain’t so matter-of-fact. Like when you kilt that old cow last week and I didn’t want to eat it ’cause he was my favorite and so gentle besides. Ma said I was sinful to waste food. But I said that maybe we shouldn’t go about killing and eating cows when they was so peaceful-like. Ma said that was foolishness and that God put the cows here just so as we can eat ’em. But that don’t seem like such a good deal for the cows to me. Preacher told us not more than four Sundays ago that God loves all his creatures, but it ain’t loving to my way of thinking to create a thing just for it to be food. Them cows ain’t never done nothing to us. Which got me to thinking that maybe we got it wrong and they got a purpose we don’t know nothing about.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Ain’t nothing in this life comes easy to any of us, child. Every road you walk down’s got a price. Sooner you learn that the better. Don’t matter the direction you go, there’ll be some bad mixed in with the good and you just gotta learn to take the one with the other.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“El talento por sí solo puede facilitarte una parte del camino, pero el resto únicamente se consigue a fuerza de práctica, perseverancia y sudor.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“A veces, sin embargo, debemos tomar decisiones difíciles y tener en cuenta todos los puntos de vistaa, así como los sentimientos de los demás. A veces, la verdadera felicidad nos llega cuando encontramos el equilibrio entre lo que nos gusta y lo que es bueno para los demás.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“As simple as that, Conrad had finally done it. For the first time in his life he had the right answer. It wasn't the best decision and certainly wasn't a logical one, but it was the right one.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Raw talent only gets you so far in this old world and the rest is a whole lot of practice, persistence, and perspiration.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“No era la mejor decisión y sin duda tampoco una decisión lógica, pero era la decisión correcta.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“I have seen the coming of the dawn.
Unconcernedly watching the passing of the day,
Whiled away my hours in joyful play-
I live to simply sing the song of love
And play the music of my heart-
Dancing and playing in the light,
I am filled with passion and delight.
My voice is free.
It rises and floats away from me-
I am unable to escape these walls.
My body will not float like my song’s plaintive calls.
Only in my mind I float free as my song
And I fly to a home where I belong.
There, those who know my heart well
Sing, sing, sing with my song’s spell-
They snatched my voice,
Held me against my choice.
I forget all that was mine
Yet I reach to dream it one last time.
I struggle to the last
But my light is fading fast,
A lone warrior waging a brutal fight
Against an endless night.
I fight for escape even if the notes of this song
Are only the part of me to leave.
I rise up out of here,
Reaching for the things I hold dear.
I will not stay silent,
I shall not remain still.
I sing. I sing to the end.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Yo creo que tener sueños y planes no es malo. Porque, si no los tienes, nunca llegarás a ninguna parte.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Todos los caminos tienen un precio; cuanto antes aprendas y aceptes eso, mejor. Tomes el camino que tomes, encontrarás cosas buenas y cosas malas y tendrás que aprender a aceptar tanto lo uno como lo otro.”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
“Everything worked out. Everyone's real happy and... I mean, I know it's not perfect, but what's perfect? Righ?”
― Victoria Forester, quote from The Girl Who Could Fly
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“You have come from the Citadel—I know, you see, something of your journeyings and history—that great fortress of bygone days, so you must possess some feeling for the past. Has it never struck you that mankind was richer by far, and happier too, a chiliad gone than it is now?” “Everyone knows,” I said, “that we have fallen far from the brave days of the past.” “As it was then, so shall it be again. Men of Urth, sailing between the stars, leaping from galaxy to galaxy, the masters of the daughters of the sun.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Shadow and Claw
“But you are not my wife. You are a woman who will go to bed with anyone who flatters your antics. That’s”
― R.K. Narayan, quote from The Guide
“Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“My sister says tearfully that she has a feeling that she will never see me again. I am not very much impressed, because she has felt this every time I go to the East. And what, she asks, is she to do if Rosalind gets appendicitis? There seems no reason why my fourteen-year-old daughter should get appendicitis, and all I can think of to reply is: ‘Don’t operate on her yourself!’ For my sister has a great reputation for hasty action with her scissors,”
― quote from Come, Tell Me How You Live
“We choose this. This place. This life. What it will be, and how we live it. We are not slaves to gods, or fate, or destinies woven in veils of smoke. We choose the people we want to be, and we choose the shape of the world in which we live. Nothing worthwhile comes without sacrifice. There is nothing so easy as swimming with the current, nothing so difficult as being the first to stand up. To say no. To point at a thing wrong and name it so. There are none so brave as those who choose to stand, when all others are content to kneel. None so worthy of the title 'hero' as those who fight when there are none to see it. Who choose a life bereft of accolade or fanfare, a life of struggle for the idea that we are all the same. Every one of us. And every one of us has the right to be happy. To know peace. To know love.”
― Jay Kristoff, quote from Endsinger
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