Mari Pacheco > Mari's Quotes

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”
― Stephen E. Ambrose, Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
― Mark Twain

“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“No entanto, a mente humana tem a aptidão e a disposição para repensar
uma grande parcela do passado, reiteradas vezes — e não necessariamente devido a novos dados, mas devido a perspectivas mutáveis: e a perspectiva é, evidentemente, um componente inevitável do ato de ver.”
― John Lukacs, Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.

“A revisão da história não deve ser o monopólio efêmero de ideólogos ou oportunistas que estão sempre prontos a deturpar, adulterar ou falsificar
dados do passado para ilustrar determinadas idéias e os seus próprios
ajustamentos a elas.”
― John Lukacs, Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian.

“I certainly didn’t feel like writing anymore. I couldn’t explain why, but the only emotion that I could arouse were feelings of anger and after staying mad all day and half the night, I was just plain tired. Mad at what? Just about everything, for just about everything was done wrong or it wasn’t done perfectly. Since nothing but perfection was acceptable, I stayed mad.”
― Dick Winters, Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters

“Sometimes we want our bodies to do a better job of showing the things that hurt us, the stories we keep hidden inside of us.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“As vezes, nosso corpo deveria mostrar mais as coisas que nos machucam, as histórias que mantemos escondidas dentro de nós.”
― Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead

“Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.”
― Rose Wilder Lane

“There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written — behind your silence and your suffering.”
― Anne Rice

“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”
― Matthew Quick, The Silver Linings Playbook

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
― Alice Walker

“Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.”
― Sue Grafton

“I am a complicated person with a simple life and I am the reason for everything that ever happened to me.”
― Charlotte Eriksson

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State

“You see, bookshops are dreams built of wood and paper. They are time travel and escape and knowledge and power. They are, simply put, the best of places.”
― Jen Campbell, The Bookshop Book

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

“Recreate your life, always, always.
Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets."

Begin again.”
― Cora Coralina

“Sanity is a valuable possesion; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“…there is an idea of a Patrick Bateman, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my cold gaze and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable: I simply am not there. It is hard for me to make sense on any given level. Myself is fabricated, an aberration. I am a noncontingent human being. My personality is sketchy and unformed, my heartlessness goes deep and is persistent. My conscience, my pity, my hopes disappeared a long time ago (probably at Harvard) if they ever did exist. There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it, I have now surpassed. I still, though, hold on to one single bleak truth: no one is safe, nothing is redeemed. Yet I am blameless. Each model of human behavior must be assumed to have some validity. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone. In fact, I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape. But even after admitting this—and I have countless times, in just about every act I’ve committed—and coming face-to-face with these truths, there is no catharsis. I gain no deeper knowledge about myself, no new understanding can be extracted from my telling. There has been no reason for me to tell you any of this. This confession has meant nothing….”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Tara Westover, Educated