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“Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.”
― Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot

“You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails”
― Kristen Proby, Easy Love

“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”
― Charles Bukowski, Living on Luck

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek

“There is no armor made that can withstand the truth.
-Karsa Orlong.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― T.S. Eliot

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.”
― Walter Winchell

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walk out.”
― Walter Winchell

“A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.”
― Walter Winchell

“An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.”
― Walter Winchell

“Tell me, Tool, what dominates your thoughts?'
The Imass shrugged before replying.
'I think of futility, Adjunct.'
'Do all Imass think about futility?'
'No. Few think at all.'
'Why is that?'
The Imass leaned his head to one side and regarded her.
'Because Adjunct, it is futile.”
― Steven Erikson, Gardens of the Moon

“Love is the most melodious of all harmonies and the sentiment of love is innate. Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.”
― Honore de Balzac

“There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need not accept responsibility for the world as it is, and by extension, one need do nothing about it. To strive for change, for true goodness in this mortal world, one must acknowledge and accept, within one's own soul, that this mortal reality has purpose in itself, that its greatest value is not for us, but for our children and their children. To view life as but a quick passage alone a foul, tortured path – made foul and tortured by our own indifference – is to excuse all manner of misery and depravity, and to exact cruel punishment upon the innocent lives to come.

I defy this notion of paradise beyond the gates of bone. If the soul truly survives the passage, then it behooves us – each of us, my friends – to nurture a faith in similitude: what awaits us is a reflection of what we leave behind, and in the squandering of our mortal existence, we surrender the opportunity to learn the ways of goodness, the practice of sympathy, empathy, compassion and healing – all passed by in our rush to arrive at a place of glory and beauty, a place we did not earn, and most certainly do not deserve.”
― Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

“Children are dying."
Lull nodded. "That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world hide in those three words.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

“‎"she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“She was as good as she was beautiful and as intelligent as she was good.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter

“One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it.
-Sherlock Holmes”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have taken to living by my wits.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“My mind rebels at stagnation, give me problems, give me work!”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

“To begin at the beginning.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

“My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“You know my methods. Apply them.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four