Mora > Mora's Quotes

“Una ventana solo es una ventana. El cristal de colores: simple cristal. Pero bajo el sol se convierte en algo más. Ella le mostraría, y le diría, que el amor debería hacer eso mismo.”
― Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Kiss

“Adam didn't look at him when he said, finally, "It doesn't matter how you say it. It's what you wanted, in the end. All your things in one place, all under your roof. Everything you own right where you can see...”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.
This was the important thing.
It had always been the important thing.
This was what it was to be Adam.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“What good is power when you're too wise to use it?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

“Jade is praised as precious,
but its strength is being stone.”
― Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“We don't need to be good. But let's try to be fair.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“all success cloaks a surrender”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

“Real education doesn't make your life easy. It complicates things and makes everything messy and disturbing. But the alternative...is to live your life based on injustice and lies.”
― Laurie Forest, The Black Witch

“Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimism to brood with any sort of respectability.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Katar," Raoden called.
Yes, My Lord?"
Do you know what it is? The secret, I mean?"
Kahar smiled. "I havent't been hungry in days, my lord. It is the most amazing feeling in the world-I don't evern notice the pain anymore." Raoden nodded, and Kahar left. The man had come looking for a magical solution to his woes, but he had found an answer much more simple. Pain lost its power when other things became more importan. Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—
self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Elantris

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Patriotism is just an idea, so is capitalism or communism. But ideas can make men forget their own interests. And the guys in charge will exploit men who believe in ideas too much.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“If I give you a hint and tell you it's a hint, it will be information.”
― Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle

“Close your eyes. Concentrate on your breath. Remember that you were not always earthbound. Every living creature, every drop of water and every sombre mountain is the by-blow of some bloated, dying star. Deep down, we remember wriggling through the universe as beams of light.”
― Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster

“I hate this city.

Thankfully, I wasn’t able to meet you earlier – if I had met you earlier, I would have fallen in love with every single person in this city.

And that would have killed me.”
― Jiu Yue Xi, The Youthful You Who Was So Beautiful

“In one of your letters, you had asked me whether, despite all that I’ve been through, I continued to believe – in truth, in beauty, in kindness, in goodness, and in trust and belief itself.

Officer Zheng,

I am now able to tell you, that because of Bei Ye, and solely because of Bei Ye, my answer is “Yes”.”
― Jiu Yue Xi, 少年的你，如此美丽

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.”
― Muriel Rukeyser

“There are all sorts of barriers out there that you never even notice unless they affect you personally.”
― Kamome Shirahama, とんがり帽子のアトリエ 8 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 8]

“Why does everyone else just assume we all see the world the same way?!”
― Kamome Shirahama, とんがり帽子のアトリエ 3 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 3]

“Rather than saying you have no idea what to do…you’re asking what you can do to make it work. That’s a big step forward. Good job.”
― Kamome Shirahama, Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 6