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50 quotes
American fiction writer (pseudonym)
“One part braggart to one part coward. He would fear everyone he did not control. And the next day he would fear those he controlled even more.”
"I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world."
on Philosophy
"There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it."
on Peace
"Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back."
on Life
"Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest."
on Wisdom
"We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread."
on Love
"Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad."
"Be very chary of telling your hoarded secrets. Many lose all power once they have been divulged."
"Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more."
"Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?"
"Humans could never accept the world as it was and live in it. They were always breaking it and living amongst the shattered pieces."
"Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself."
"History is no more fixed and dead than the future. The past is no further away than the last breath you took."
on Time
"Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day."
"But if she is alone now, it is because she chose to be alone, not someone decree if for her. Her life is hers to live, not yours to repair."
"I should live each day as if it were significant, as if everyday the fate of the world depended on my action."
"Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable."
"When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead."
on Truth
"The fight isn't over until you win it...That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks."
on Perseverance
"The fight isn't over until you win."
"Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world."
on Activism
