E.J. Patten > Quotes

“Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as they might or
should be, but as they are, right now, in this moment. The
heart sees the now; the mind only sees the next. If you can’t
learn to see the now, you’ll never see what’s truly there, and
then where will you be?”
“Trapped”
“Precisely. But if you take care of the now, the future will
work out as it should.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at all.”
― E.J. Patten

“A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward
one inevitable conclusion”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“A trap, like a good
story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them
until the prey is snared.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“It’s hardly the time for sense, I should think, since nonsense
has been serving us so well”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“A good
trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment.
It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what’s coming,
they’ll bolt.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“A grape may become a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin rot on the vine, if you do nothing for it.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile

“A grape may be a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin will rot on the vine, if you do nothing for it.”
― E.J. Patten, Return to Exile