Daniel > Daniel 's Quotes

“Love is one of the most intense feelings felt by man; another is hate. Forcing yourself to feel indiscriminate love is very unnatural. If you try to love everyone you only lessen your feelings for those who deserve your love. Repressed hatred can lead to many physical and emotional aliments. By learning to release your hatred towards those who deserve it, you cleanse yourself of these malignant emotions and need not take your pent-up hatred out on your loved ones.”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

“I felt this weird mix of disappointment and anger welling up inside of me.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman’s perfume.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“It was bitingly cold up here, and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Upon it rested a slender crystal glass filled with a thick blue liquid: shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks. “Take and drink,” urged Pyat Pree. “Will it turn my lips blue?” “One draught will serve only to unstop your ears and dissolve the caul from off your eyes, so that you may hear and see the truths that will be laid before you.” Dany raised the glass to her lips. The first sip tasted like ink and spoiled meat, foul, but when she swallowed it seemed to come to life within her. She could feel tendrils spreading through her chest, like fingers of fire coiling around her heart, and on her tongue was a taste like honey and anise and cream, like mother’s milk and Drogo’s seed,”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“He went to the window seat, picked up a harp, and ran his fingers lightly over its silvery strings. Sweet sadness filled the room as man and wife and babe faded like the morning mist, only the music lingering behind to speed her on her way.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“The others were far scattered, like leaves blown by the wild wind.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire: Four Books in One

“Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata

“Stars, too, were time travelers. How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? How many had been born but their light not yet come this far? If all the suns but ours collapsed tonight, how many lifetimes would it take us to realize that we were alone?”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Some things you can never leave behind. They don't belong to the past. They belong to you.”
― Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave

“Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…”
― Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls”
― Nietzsche

“The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Come sleep with me: We won't make Love, Love will make us.”
― Julio Cortázar

“No one tells you
when you fall in love with a star,
one day it might burn out
and leave behind a black hole.”
― Analog De Leon, Vertigo: Of Love & Letting Go

“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“if i could do it all again
i would've loved me more
instead of waiting on you”
― R.H. Sin, A Beautiful Composition of Broken

“Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“I’m waiting, in my room, which right now is a waiting room. When I go to bed it’s a bedroom.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Call no man happy until he is dead. Herodotus.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“They believe. And then they will not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Not for him to accept the decrepitude of old human age.”
― Jude Watson, A Tangled Web

“Swiveling in his old wooden chair, the legs squeaking as if startled by the sudden movement, he glanced at the clock on the wall behind him and surveyed the time imprisoned behind its yellowed and aged plastic dome.”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away!”
― Hugh Howey, Wool

“Sanity is a valuable possession; 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