Mae > Mae's Quotes

“You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Personally, I was never more passionate about manga than when preparing for my college entrance exams. It's a period of life when young people appear to have a great deal of freedom, but are in many ways actually opressed. Just when they find themselves powerfully attracted to members of opposite sex, they have to really crack the books. To escape from this depressing situation, they often find themselves wishing they could live in a world of their own - a world they can say is truly theirs, a world unknown even to their parents. To young people, anime is something they incorporate into this private world.
I often refer to this feeling as one yearning for a lost world. It's a sense that although you may currently be living in a world of constraints, if you were free from those constraints, you would be able to do all sorts of things. And it's that feeling, I believe, that makes mid-teens so passionate about anime.”
― Hayao Miyazaki, Starting Point 1979-1996

“I'm afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Those rude, unwashed boys, why would I want to imagine such intimate pieces of them?”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“It feels as though I am an island, apart from everybody else. Perhaps we are all islands, apart from each other.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“I thought about how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it's this.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Suck my dick, America.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“There’s always more wicked if you dig deep enough.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars

“Stupid people are dangerous.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“He found himself wishing he could go back and start again and do everything differently. But time was the worst thing; time, it seemed to him now, was the only thing you couldn't change; whatever you did, it kept coming.”
― Carys Davies, Clear

“How is it, she thought, we never see the big things coming?”
― Carys Davies, Clear

“Potatoes make everything okay.”
― Catriona Ward, Looking Glass Sound

“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“If I die, I die,” said Alice. “But there’s no life otherwise, I think. Life is an activity that’s got to be sustained. You have to fight for it. Otherwise it’s no life at all. That’s just it. It’s just an impulse. And we’ve both determined that’s not enough. You know that.”
― R F Kuang

“Being an idiot!” All four Shades shuddered; a quivering mass of jelly. “Oh, the horror! Oh, to not be clever!” And one of them wailed, “What if you never learn to read!”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Believe the lie - trust the lie - it is the only thing you have. Stay in the cage and paint the walls. If you do not, then you must quit; but if you can delude yourself long enough, then your delusions might very well come true.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“You might say karma is like a seed. Seeds grow into fruit. Karma is a natural consequence. Badness accrues. It affects the way you live your life, how you perceive the world. When you do evil things, you see the world as petty and selfish and cruel. And what you experience in Hell is just the final ripple effect of your original evil. You get precisely what you asked for. And I think the whole point of Hell is to show you the full extent of what you wanted.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Loss of identity was a terrifying prospect.”
― R.F. Kuang, Katabasis

“Don't count yourself out this early, Daisy. You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“i held hands
with my sadness,
sang it songs in the shower,
fed it lunch,
got it drunk
& put it to bed early.”
― Sabrina Benaim, Depression & Other Magic Tricks