“Google tells me everything I need to know about death except what comes after.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps courage is simply this spur-of-the-moment acts when your head screams don't, but your body does it anyway.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Courage is standing still even though you want to run. Courage is planting yourself and turning towards the thing that scares you, whether it's your leg or your friends or the guy who could break your heart again. It's opening your eyes and staring that fear down.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“I don’t know how he does it—how he makes me forget the clock and the pain. Sometimes, even if it’s just for a few seconds, I can forget how crap my life is.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“three is the worst hour. it's too dark, too bright, too late, too early. It's when the questions come, droning like flies, nudging me one by one until my mind's full of them”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Isn't that normal? To want to be alone sometimes?”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Düşünüyorum da bir otobüse binersem ve yeterince uzağa gidersem, en sonunda dünyanın kenarından düşerim.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There are some things you can't change ... And there are some things you can”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Mia: Where do their other things go? Like mobile phones and all the music on ipods? I imagine mountains of phones. Songs forgotten in clouds.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“We humans screw up everything in the short time we've got”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“De golpe siento lo que es coraje. El coraje es permanecer quieto, aunque desees salir corriendo. El coraje es plantarte y darte la vuelta para encarar aquello que temes [...] Es abrir bien los ojos y aguantarle la mirada a ese miedo.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“There's nothing mysterious about death or what comes after. There's just nothing.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Perhaps time eats away all relationships”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
“Yeah, there’s that, too, those razor-edged comments that come from nowhere like nunchuks.”
― A.J. Betts, quote from Zac and Mia
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“Don't worry so much! My skin's thick enough to put up with honestly expressed opinions, even from outsiders, however little I may care for them. And if I started using my security people to break heads or quash dissent, I'd only prove I was exactly what they say I am, now wouldn't I?" The”
― David Weber, quote from Flag in Exile
“People can change... no matter where they come from, no matter where they think they ought to go, people can make their own way.”
― Rochelle Maya Callen, quote from Ashes and Ice
“I have never before considered the feelings of a cow. I suppose they must not care for us at all.’ ‘They are only dumb beasts,’ Laurence said, ‘and such thought surely beyond them. Any animal will defend its life and young, but that is not the same as being a thinking, reasoning creature.’ ‘Only, how could one be certain?’ Temeraire said. ‘After all, if one wishes to be particularly dull, one might be like that fellow Salcombe, and say that dragons are also dumb beasts. And I am quite sure the bunyips are not, though they do not seem to talk at all: they are only nasty thinking creatures. It is not very fair, though, that I should allow them to have sense because they will contrive one unpleasantness after another; what if cows are very clever, only they do not like to make a fuss about it?’ ‘If they dislike fuss enough to tolerate being eaten,’ Laurence said, with rather an amused expression, ‘surely it need not matter one way or another.’ ‘Perhaps they think they will be eaten anyway, as they are so delicious,”
― Naomi Novik, quote from Tongues of Serpents
“She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister—comes from hating human beings so much, I think.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Roboter-Visionen
“They’re all over me I smell their beer breath mixed with my sweat I can’t answer all the questions, I can barely think straight Now I’m alone in the room To be hard you must be alone To withstand this shit you must be hard The logic works itself out right in front you Be alone as much as you can If you want to hit like a ton of fire You have to get to the essential number One”
― Henry Rollins, quote from See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die
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