Elizabeth Jackson > Elizabeth's Quotes

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Arthur went down, and I know him too well to imagine he's coming back up unless I drag him behind me, a sullen Eurydice. I know the hard set of his jaw and the soft slide of his lips, I know the terrible guilt that drives him and the scars it left behind. I know he is the thing I have been chasing and craving, searching and waiting and hoping for my entire life: home.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

“My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“So many vows... they make you swear and swear. Defend the king. Obey the king. Keep his secrets. Do his bidding. Your life for his. But obey your father. Love your sister. Protect the innocent. Defend the weak. Respect the gods. Obey the laws. It’s too much. No matter what you do, you’re forsaking one vow or the other.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Valar Morghulis.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“I am become a sour woman, Catelyn thought. I take no joy in mead nor meat, and song and laughter have become suspicious strangers to me. I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings. There is an empty place within me where my heart was once.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“A hound will die for you, but never lie to you. And he'll look you straight in the face.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“Only a fool humbles himself when the world is so full of men eager to do that job for him.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“They understand what they are looking at. They understand that it could have been them. A wrong turn on the wrong night, and it could have been them. There is no sense to that. That you can be going about your life, minding your own goddamn business, and suddenly become prey.”
― Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

“Don't you have enough power now?"
"When you have been powerless your whole life- how do you know when it is enough?”
― Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

“Even the devil does not trust men to honor a bargain, so it does not deal with them. It offers power only to women.”
― Krystal Sutherland, The Invocations

“This is a world of blood. Of tooth and claw and sharp iron. Of short lives and painful deaths.”
― John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods

“It is a dark world, and dark deeds rule it, drag us down a white-foamed river we cannot resist.”
― John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods

“Courage is being scared of a task and doing it anyway.”
― John Gwynne, The Shadow of the Gods

“Real courage is to feel fear, but to stand and face it, not run from it.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“Life is a knife's edge, and all can change with the thrust of a blade.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods

“We are none of us born warriors,” Orka muttered. “It is the world that makes us so.”
― John Gwynne, The Hunger of the Gods