“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“The years might change our outer selves, but underneath it all we stayed the same, we kept our patterns ...”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, And has time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“I would argue ’tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories. That is why we find that having lived them once, we never can recapture them.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“always best to think the worst of everyone, for that way you’ll be seldom disappointed.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“I'd met people in my life who were pure poison. I had learnt to know the look of them - the way their smiles came and went and never touched their eyes, those eyes that could be so intense at times and yet revealed no soul. Such people might look normal, but inside it was as though some vital part of them was missing, and whenever I saw eyes like that I'd learnt to turn and run and guard my back while I was leaving.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“When I meet a wind I cannot fight,’ he said, ‘I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“And has the truth become the property of those who can afford it?’ The”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
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“If you are proven to be right a hundred times in a row,
no amount of evidence will convince you that you are mistaken
in the hundred-and-first case. You will be seduced by
your own apparent infallibility. Remember that all scientific
experiments are performed by human beings and the results
are subject to human interpretation. The human mind is a
delusion generator, not a window to truth. Everyone, including
skeptics, will generate delusions that match their views.
That is how a normal and healthy brain works. Skeptics are
not exempt from self-delusion.”
― Scott Adams, quote from God's Debris: A Thought Experiment
“or the pilots doing nine-to-five jobs at computer consoles in Nevada killing people in Iraq and Afghanistan with drones and commuting to and from their homes like any other commuters. Imagine the psychic split that must ensue from bringing in death and destruction from the sky on a group of terrorists—young men who have mothers and a misplaced idealism that has led them into horrible criminal acts, but nevertheless young and brave men—and then driving home from the base to dinner with the spouse and kids. “Have a nice day at the office, hon?”
― Karl Marlantes, quote from What It is Like to Go to War
“Keşke imkân olsaydı da (ki insan tabiatı için bu asla mümkün değildir) herkes, hepimiz, benliğimizin en gizli köşelerini olduğu gibi açığa vurabilseydik; başkalarına, hatta en yakın dostlarımıza, sırası gelince kendimize bile itiraf etmekten çekindiğimiz ne varsa, hepsini korkmadan ortaya dökebilseydik, dünyayı saracak pis kokudan hepimiz boğulurduk. Parantez içinde söyleyeyim, toplumu düzenleyen yasalar, görgü kuralları bu bakımdan iyidir zaten. Derin bir fikir gizlidir bunlarda; ahlaki olduğu iddia edilemeyecek ama, koruyucu, bize rahatlık sağlayan bir fikir. Bu da azımsanmamalı, çünkü ahlak da rahatlıktan başka bir şey değildir, yani rahatımız için icat edilmiştir. …Son olarak şunu söyleyeyim: Kusurlarımı, ahlaksızlığımı, sefihliğimi başıma kakıyorsunuz; oysa bütün suçum başkalarından daha içten olmam, o kadar. Demin de dediğim gibi, başkalarının kendilerinden bile sakladığı gerçekleri ben açıkça ortaya döküyorum.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The Insulted and Humiliated
“I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from The Next Always
“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”
― Aidan Chambers, quote from Postcards from No Man's Land
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