Karatics > Karatics's Quotes

“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Jean de La Bruyère, Les Caractères

“She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.”
― Kate Chopin

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
― Ezra Pound

“Love isn't an act, it's a whole life.”
― Brian Moore

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
― Stephen Fry

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I’d prefer a world with no identity politics. I’d prefer we judged people according to reason, logic and evidence instead of barmy left-wing theories about “oppression.”
― Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous

“Identity politics is universally attractive because it enables failures and weaknesses to be spun as the products of oppression and historical injustice. Personal responsibility is removed from the equation.”
― Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous

“I want people to be allowed to make jokes about, and discuss, anything they want. I don’t think people should be ostracized for doing so.”
― Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous

“Hatred has engulfed the politics of the Left. Socialists hate the financially successful. LGBT activists hate fundamentalist Christians. Black Lives Matter hate police officers. Fat people hate skinny people, like me and Ann Coulter. But none of these groups hate with the PMS-fueled pettiness of feminism.”
― Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous

“The pretext needed to ban me turned out to be the all-female reboot of Ghostbusters, a remarkably bad film that flopped at the box office and contributed to Sony’s decision to take a near $1 billion write-down on its movie business.”
― Milo Yiannopoulos, Dangerous

“He snatched up the reins again, holding her tight. There was nothing affectionate or remotely romantic about the gesture; it was desperation, like a man clinging to a ledge. "We run.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“Eat you?" He made a disgusted sound. "The smell of your blood alone is enough to put me off eating for a month.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“The bow in hand, he finally staggered up and glanced down the alley, obviously searching for whoever had – what had he said? – ‘called’ him? Though he didn’t look much taller than her, the vast array of weapons – enough to fight a whole troop of French soldiers – was terrifying and slightly ridiculous. Like what a little boy might don to pretend to be some ancient warrior.

A warrior. Oh, by the Most High…

He was looking for her. Nahri was the one who had called him.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“You're some kind of thief, then?"
"That a very narrow-minded way of looking at it. I prefer to think of myself as a merchant of delicate tasks.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“Judging from the screams of the mob, Nahri suspected animating winged lions that breathed flames was not a regular occurrence to the djinn world.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“Nahri always smiled at her marks.”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“Can I swim?” he snapped, as if the very idea offended him. "Can you burn?”
― S.A. Chakraborty, The City of Brass

“And how do you know that you're mad? "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. You grant that?" I suppose so, said Alice. "Well then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
― Robert Frost

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov