“The error was not yours, Somerled," Eyvind said quietly, moving to the doorway. "It was mine. I failed to teach you the one lesson you could not do without: how to be a man.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“Now he understood what it was to be a man: that it was to be weak as well as strong, to be foolish sometimes and wise sometimes, to know love as well as to kill. And he had learned that there were other paths for him, other gods who called in the deep places of the earth, in the lap of wavelets on the shore, in the breath of the wind. He had learned that there were other kinds of courage. He knew, with deep certainty, that the islands held a new path for him. He need only move forward and find it.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows.”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“The god honors the faithful. And who is more true than a man who keeps his oath, though it breaks his heart?”
― Juliet Marillier, quote from Wolfskin
“Obviously he had aspired too high, or been too impatient; but it was his nature to be aspiring and impatient, and if he was to succeed it must be on the lines of his own character.”
― Edith Wharton, quote from The Buccaneers
“A boy with a ball. A boy with a dream.”
― David Peace, quote from The Damned Utd
“The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea from some old science fiction novel”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Reamde
“Mislim da je ljudima koji vole horore samo dosadno u životu. Žude za podsticajma, a kada se stvarno jeziv film završi, ponovo si uveren da si živ i da svet još uvek postoji kao i pre, i oni imaju potrebu da se u to iznova uveravaju. To je pravi razlog zašto postoje horor filmovi - oni služe kao prigušivači šoka - i ako nestanu, to će značiti da gubimo jedan od nekoliko načina na koje se nosimo sa anksioznošću koju naša mašta proizvodi. Kladim se da bismo tada bili svedoci velikog porasta broja serijskih i masovnih ubica. Konačno, svako ko je dovoljno glup da iz horor filmova dobije ideju da ubija ljude može istu tu ideju da dobije gledajući vesti, zar ne?”
― Ryū Murakami, quote from In the Miso Soup
“it is important that people treat any gaps they identify in their knowledge as invitations to learn more.”
― Art Markman, quote from Smart Thinking: Three Essential Keys to Solve Problems, Innovate, and Get Things Done
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