Crio > Crio's Quotes

“You’ve no right to starve people, to punish them for no reason. No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking. Winning a war doesn’t give you that right. Having more weapons doesn’t give you that right. Being from the Capitol doesn’t give you that right. Nothing does.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“You can blame it on the circumstances, the environment, but you made the choices you made, no one else. It's a lot to take in all at once, but it's essential that you make an effort to answer that question. Who are human beings? Because who we are determines the type of governing we need. Later on, I hope you can reflect and be honest with yourself about that you learned tonight.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“And try not to look down on people who had to choose between death and disgrace.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“For a moment he laughed, forgetting where they were, how depressing the backdrop. For a moment there was just her smile, the musical cadence of her voice, and the hint of flirtation. Then the world exploded.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“But better off sad than dead.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“What are lies but attempts to conceal some sort of weakness?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Wars are won by heads not hearts.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Courage in battle was often necessary because of someone else’s poor planning.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Trust is important.” “I think it’s more important than love. I mean, I love all kinds of things I don’t trust. Thunderstorms . . . white liquor . . . snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can’t trust them, and how mixed up is that?”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Before need, before love, came trust.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“If you ain’t scared… you ain’t human.”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“You are the shuckiest shuck faced shuck in the world!”
― James Dashner, The Maze Runner

“I am the perfect weapon, I can kill with a single touch.”
― Melinda Salisbury, The Sin Eater's Daughter

“The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.”
― Bhim Rao Ambedkar

“Sometimes life is like this dark tunnel. You can't always see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you just keep moving... you will come to a better place.”
― Uncle Iroh

“Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else”
― Uncle Iroh

“Protection and power are overrated. I think you are very wise to choose happiness and love.”
― Uncle Iroh

“Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not.”
― Uncle Iroh

“Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else.”
― Uncle Iroh

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again. Only this time, more wisely.”
― Uncle Iroh

“The Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“He was a silent fury who no torment could tame.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.”
― Jack London, White Fang

“Sometimes, when I have to do something I don't want to do, I pretend I'm a character from a book. It's easier to know what they would do.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel

“TREADING ACROSS THE GROUND strewn with exquisite fragments of crimson, Xie Lian slowly approached Hua Cheng. He saw that the man’s shoulders had a few red blossoms scattered on them, and he wanted to brush them off for him, but he realized that gesture would be overly intimate. So he forced down the urge and tucked his arms behind his back, smiling. “Not only can you call forth blood rain, you can also make a flower shower. I didn’t know that. How fun!”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 5

“Hua Cheng gazed into his eyes. “I know you can’t die, and that you aren’t afraid to die. But no matter how tough you are, remember that you can still get hurt.” Xie Lian was stunned. “Not dying doesn’t mean not getting hurt,” Hua Cheng continued, “and it certainly doesn’t mean that it doesn’t hurt. When”
― Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù, Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 5

“If I could, I would have you use me as your stepping stone,
the bridge you take apart after crossing, the corpse bones you
need to trample to climb up, the sinner who deserved the
butchering of a million knives. But, I know you wouldn’t allow
it.”
― Moxiang Tongxiu

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
― Virginia Woolf