“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it...But there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from The Orenda
“They laugh at this, the idea that one might keep herds of friendly deer or elk that walk happily to their slaughter whenever it's time for the human to eat meat. Some ask openly if there aren't consequences of a life so easy to live.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from The Orenda
“We are the people birthed from this land. For the first time I can seem something I've not fully understood before, not until now as these pale creatures from somewhere far away stare down at us in wonder, trying to makes sense of what they see. We are this place. This place is us.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from The Orenda
“wolves are so frightening not because of their fangs and claws but because of their intelligence, because of their hunger.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from The Orenda
“We are the people birthed from this land. For the first time I can see something I've not fully understood before, not until now as these pale creatures from somewhere far away stare down at us in wonder, trying to make sense of what they see. We are this place. This place is us.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from The Orenda
“So much is learned by seeing how well or how poorly someone accomplishes a job he dislikes.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from The Orenda
“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.”
― Joseph Boyden, quote from The Orenda
Joseph Boyden
Born place: in Canada
Born date October 31, 1966
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“This is the kind of thing that you wonder about when you make things up for a living. I remain unconvinced that it is the kind of activity that is a fit occupation for an adult, but it’s too late now: I seem to have a career that I enjoy which doesn’t involve getting up too early in the morning.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions
“A life entirely devoted to the avoidance of wrong seldom achieves anything exceptionally right—or anything at all.”
― Gary Jennings, quote from The Journeyer
“Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there. I don't know if the devil's got horns and a spear for a tail, but I don't think that's the point. The point is that hell is separate from love. If Lucifer knows anything, he knows that. And ever since Emma left, I'd known the same thing. It's a lonely, desolate place.”
― Charles Martin, quote from When Crickets Cry
“Uh, what are you doing?'
'What does it look like I'm doing?' Jake asks, settling into the seat beside me. The bus jerks forward. 'I'm sitting beside you.'
'No, you're not. Your seat is in the middle. Nice try, though.'
He has the audacity to ignore me, sets his book bag on his lap and rummages through it. After a minute, he pulls out a folded sheet of paper and hands it to me.
I unfold it. 'A love letter? How sweet.'
'No.' He turns pink. 'It's just something I found on the Internet-'
'Porn? You shouldn't have.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from Cracked Up to Be
“The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense”
― Bertrand Russell, quote from A History of Western Philosophy
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