Daryl Muro > Daryl's Quotes

“You can’t save anyone who wouldn’t save themselves without you. It’s the hardest lesson to learn in life, take it from me.
- p. 47, The Brothers Silver”
― Marc Jampole, The Brothers Silver

“The emotional rollercoaster she was riding was taking another downhill run.”
― Marilyn Dalla Valle, Westwind Secrets

“When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When were the fairy stories of the superstitious placed above criticism, beyond satire? A religion was not a race. It was an idea, and ideas stood (or fell) because they were strong enough (or too weak) to withstand criticism, not because they were shielded from it. Strong ideas welcomed dissent.”
― Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir

“Cruelty is contagious in uncivilized communities.”
― Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself

“Shit!" I heard Diehl shout over the comm. "I just lost my gorram shields because I'm already out of frakkin' power!"
"Dude," Cruz said. "You shouldn't mix swears from different universes.”
― Ernest Cline, Armada

“I'm more concerned, just as you used to be, with the world as a riddle than with the riddles in the world. I'm more concerned with natural than the supernatural. And I feel more wonder for our inscrutable brain than for all these loose anecdots about the 'extrasensory'.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Castle in the Pyrenees

“To learn a different language is to learn a different way of living,”
― Lisa See, The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

“Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!”
― Rhonda Byrne, Hero

“It's called obfuscation in the interest of deniability. You might say it's our lingua franca.”
― Robert Ludlum

“One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women means trouble in the house. Three pretty women means run at the hills.”
― Robert Jordan

“تجاوز به حریم شخصی کسی با هر درجه‌ای عادی نیست!
این چیزیه که معمولا به عنوان یه شکل از بهره‌ کشی احساسی شناخته میشه.”
― Paula Hawkins, Girl on the Train - Preview

“But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant, or were you just born stupid?”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Help

“I am no longer one of Mr. Pontellier's possessions to dispose of or not. I give myself where I choose.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“She died calmly; and her countenance expressed affection even in death. I need not describe the feelings of those who dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she, whom we saw every day, and whose very existence appeared a part of our own, can have departed for ever - that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished, and the sound of a voice so familiar, and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil then the actual bitterness of grief commences. Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connexion; and why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel? The time at length arrives when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed sacrilege, is not banished. My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to preform; we must continue our course with the rest, and learn to think ourselves fortunate, whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“A reason or a purpose is a combination of "wants" and "don't wants".”
― Robert Kiyosaki, Retire Young Retire Rich

“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“The glass can be half empty or half full.” Leni knew the glass was broken.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“The thing’s hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it’s full of stars!”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey