Timothy Shiner > Timothy's Quotes

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“I think tempus est umbra in mente is a better one. Roughly translated, it means time is a shadow in the mind.”
― Stephen King, Fairy Tale

“I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I loved, the breath I breathed.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Other Wind

“This realisation – the realisation of the Insignificance of the Knowledge – came to me in the form of a Revelation. What I mean by this is that I knew it to be true before I understood why or what steps had led me there.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“But her brain was not interested in the future. Loaded with the past and hungry for more, it left her no room to imagine, let alone plan for, the next day.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them—words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“If you love with your eyes, death is forever. If you love with your heart, there is no such thing as parting.”
― Michael R. Miller, Ascendant

“The need to recreate the myth of coherence may be one of the reasons why history exists in the first place.”
― Stephen King, The Dark Tower

“I'm scared of everything except the dark.”
― C.G. Drews, Don't Let the Forest In