Jacqueline > Jacqueline's Quotes

“Beauty is indeed a good gift of the gods; but that the good may not think it a great good, the gods dispense it even to the wicked. The same can me said for wisdom.”
― Saint Augustine

“Each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.”
― Ronald Wright

“Someone begging for their humanity to be acknowledged can sound an awful lot like rage.”
― Kalen Dion

“You cannot deal with grief, not really. It is not a monster you can slay and be done with. Grief is an ambush predator, and we are the prey. It stalks us our entire lives, hiding in smells and sounds, in solitude and in crowds. It waits in items and in thoughts. Memories are the hunting grounds of grief, and when it pounces, its bite is venomous. It inflicts sadness or rage or sometimes despair. But grief is not an adventurous predator. Always it stalks old memories, not new. And that is how we move on. New memories where it is not welcome.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Death's Beating Heart

“Judgement is a pedestal held up by the twin pillars of context and perspective.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Death's Beating Heart

“We can never adequately prepare our children for what the world will throw at them. Their lives deviate from ours in unfathomable ways and in the end, all we can do is hope that the strength we have nurtured within them is greater than the weaknesses we have inflicted upon them.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Sins of the Mother

“Pride is like staring into a fire at night. It's comforting in the dark, but it blinds you to everything but the flames.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Sins of the Mother

“We’re never to see peace—none of us—until we come to recognize that a child of a culture that is not our own is as precious as one who is. And I don’t know if that will ever be possible.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Starlight Enclave

“I hated the people offering stupid prayers to a creature that wouldn't even notice when it stepped on them. Do you think ants pray to terrans? Do you think they worship the boot that squashes them? No. They're smarter than that, than us. Ants know the inexorable truth of the situation: big thing from sky means danger, get the fuck out of the way.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Sins of the Mother

“I have heard people say that the truth can set you free. Somewhat ironically, that's a bloody lie. The truth locks you in, determines a set way of thinking, of feeling, of believing. The truth is the opposite of freedom. Lies, on the other hand, can be whatever we want them to be. Lies can free us from a burden that truth would bury us with. Lies can ease a pain that truth would cause to rot and fester. Lies can make a point, where truth would just expose us for the hypocrites we are, a lesson all parents know well. The world is founded on lie, upon lie, upon lie. But the truth is always there, just waiting for an opportunity to tear down everything we have built.”
― Rob J. Hayes, The Lessons Never Learned

“Because these scars built me. Each one is a reminder of the pain I endured and the pain I overcame. That is what yours are, as well. Cherish the pain. Let it bind to who you are. You will be the better for it.”
― Ryan Cahill

“I don’t think losing the ones you love ever gets easier. It is the only pain your body truly remembers. When you think back on a broken leg, you do not weep from the agony. But when you remember you will never look upon your father’s face again, it cuts as fresh as the first day. What does get easier is carrying on. The weights on our shoulders rarely get lighter, but we can get stronger.”
― Ryan Cahill

“Traditions can be more confining to the mind than chains. Those who break them are always treated with suspicion and fear.”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Hunted

“GIVE ME A MAN WHO SAYS HE’S A GOOD LEADER AND I’LL GIVE YOU A POWER-HUNGRY TYRANT.”
― David Estes, Endfall

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did and let me love you anyway.”
― Edgar Allen Poe

“Plenty of humans are monstrous, and plenty of monsters know how to play at being human.”
― V.A. Vale

“I was a fucking child,” I seethe, voice low and dangerous. “I didn’t need to be stronger; I needed to be safe.”
― J. Rose

“Water doesn’t complain. When a boulder falls in a river, the water finds a way around it. What stands in the way becomes the way. Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it—turns it to its purpose, incorporates it into itself—so, too, a canny poisoner can turn each setback into the raw means to achieve her goal. ​— ​ANKARETTE TRYNEOWY”
― Jeff Wheeler, The Widow's Fate

“Religion—even true religion—has a tendency to twist itself into nothing more than justification for human turpitude.”
― Zack Argyle, Stones of Light

“The vaettir have a saying that i find of utmost relevance in our dilemma now: Prayer is a groan.”
― Jeff Wheeler, Poisonwell

“Upon common theaters, he said, the applause of the audience is of more importance to the actor than his own approbation. But upon the stage of life, while conscience claps, let the world hiss.”
― John Adams

“Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.”
― John Adams

“I read my eyes out and can’t read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams

“There are two types of people, those who make commitments and those who keep them.”
― John Adams

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
― Rumi

“silence is the language of god,
all else is poor translation.”
― Rumi