“So not every person fits into the little rooms we build to hold them. There are infinite combinations of human and inhuman, male and female, brown and white.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“She was ugly, was all they'd told her. But she didn't find them beautiful, so what did it matter?”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Outside of monsters, meat is meat. Science is a powerful teacher. And hunger is a cruel mistress.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“A creature is what it is, even if it can't show its true face.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Could a mare only like mares or stallions, or could a mare like whatever she damn pleased? Maybe she just didn't know enough yet to understand what she was or what she wanted. Or maybe she was lots of things, just as her skin was a mixture of browns. Maybe she didn't have to like anything.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“People need to be touched and talked to, they need to know somebody else in the world cares.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Nettie's one-eyed glare was flat, her patience gone. "I'm the feller that's going to kill you."
"You're not a feller."
"That's not yours to decide.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“People fear monsters. Monsters fear the Cannibal Owl.” Nettie”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Because you were raised by ignorant people. They taught you to use things before you understood them. To kill things before you recognized them. To hate things before you knew them. But you'll appreciate a thing better when you know where it comes from, when your hands know the shape of it.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Being a person was mighty twisty, and yet she didn’t want to go back to being nothing.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Because a shadow was a thing that defined itself, and Nettie didn't have to fit anyone else's shape.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“Nettie scanned the shed for anything useful, but all she saw were big, clumsy things, like hoes and plows and men.”
― quote from Wake of Vultures
“The thing about dreams, though, is they usually sound crazy to everyone but you. All it takes is one other person to buy into them to keep you going.”
― quote from Running for My Life: One Lost Boy's Journey from the Killing Fields of Sudan to the Olympic Games
“I knew what happened in fairy tales. The strong survived while the weak were eaten alive.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Marriage of Opposites
“If you accept the position of governor, part of your job is to make sure all your people have a decent shot at making something good out of their lives.”
― Timothy Zahn, quote from Choices of One
“Where was the excitement in dependability? Where was the spontaneity in a predictable world? He could offer her an eternity of challenges and passion, of quiet, tender moments stolen in the depths of riotous flames and ravaging storms—tranquility amidst the chaos.
She belonged with him, wearing regal robes. He had so much to teach her about the nether realm, about the glories of manipulation and madness.”
― A.G. Howard, quote from The Moth in the Mirror
“How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and earth are whispering me,
" To morrow, wake, but, dream to-night."
Yes, Fancy, come, my Fairy love !
These throbbing temples softly kiss;
And bend my lonely couch above
And bring me rest, and bring me bliss.
The world is going; dark world, adieu !
Grim world, conceal thee till the day;
The heart, thou canst not all subdue,
Must still resist, if thou delay !
Thy love I will not, will not share;
Thy hatred only wakes a smile;
Thy griefs may wound–thy wrongs may tear,
But, oh, thy lies shall ne'er beguile !
While gazing on the stars that glow
Above me, in that stormless sea,
I long to hope that all the woe
Creation knows, is held in thee !
And, this shall be my dream to-night;
I'll think the heaven of glorious spheres
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Is rolling on its course of light
In endless bliss, through endless years;
I'll think, there's not one world above,
Far as these straining eyes can see,
Where Wisdom ever laughed at Love,
Or Virtue crouched to Infamy;
Where, writhing 'neath the strokes of Fate,
The mangled wretch was forced to smile;
To match his patience 'gainst her hate,
His heart rebellious all the while.
Where Pleasure still will lead to wrong,
And helpless Reason warn in vain;
And Truth is weak, and Treachery strong;
And Joy the surest path to Pain;
And Peace, the lethargy of Grief;
And Hope, a phantom of the soul;
And Life, a labour, void and brief;
And Death, the despot of the whole !”
― Emily Brontë, quote from The Complete Poems of Emily Bronte [with Biographical Introduction]
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