Cece > Cece's Quotes

“(A)ll it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“There are many ways to be alone, and some of them are almost divine. There is a feeling that comes from being at peace in such a solitary moment, sensing in a very deep way that the space you occupy is important and fulfills the measure of its creation by simply being”
― K.S.R. Kingworth (aka Karey Shane), Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador's Gate

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“There are so many layers inside of people, so much soul pain and angsty depth and heart hurt, and some ... hide all this so well that when it comes out in an action as simple as a nod, your entire world shifts a little bit on its axis.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

“Just as there are physical monsters, can there not be mental or psychic monsters born? The face and body may be perfect, but if a twisted gene or malformed egg can produce physical monsters, may not the same process produce a malformed soul?

Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. As a child may be born without an arm, so one may be born without kindness or the potential of conscience. A man who loses his arms in an accident has a great struggle to adjust himself to the lack, but one born without arms suffers only from people who find him strange. Having never had arms, he cannot miss them. To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“For those who don't believe in themselves, hardwork is worthless." -Maito Gai (Naruto)”
― Masashi Kishimoto

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual
mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man. By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions,
forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged. It is a sad suicidal course our species seems to have taken.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Love is a fragile, corruptible thing. And yet I have seen it evince a curious strength. It is beyond any comprehension Love is a weakness that once in a great while triumphs over strength. ”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Thanks to these eyes...I came to understand how cruel and despicable people can be. But that also allowed me to appreciate true beauty. All you have to do is appreciate things from a different perspective Once I realized the things we take for granted are really miracles, I came to see everything in it's precious, empheral beauty.
..... I love this world.”
― Jun Mochizuki, Pandora Hearts, Vol. 18

“Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.”
― Eiichiro Oda

“Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.”
― Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down

“There's a divinity that shapes beauty from our rough hewn lives.”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“Losing people you love affects you. It is buried inside of you and becomes this big, deep hole of ache. It doesn't magically go away, even when you stop officially mourning.”
― Carrie Jones, Captivate

“You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.”
― Carrie Jones, Entice

“Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.”
― Anne Bradstreet

“The God gives simpler problems to lesser men.”
― Brent Weeks, Shadow's Edge

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.”
― Carrie Vaughn, Kitty's House of Horrors

“It's hard to save the world when you can't save yourself”
― Carrie Jones, Need

“I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.”
― Alison Goodman, Eon: Dragoneye Reborn

“A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.”
― Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows

“The root of all fear is imagination.”
― Atshushi Okubo

“There are bad people in the world: Murderers and psychopaths and telemarketers who won't take no for an answer.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Raised by Wolves

“With a polite smile, I decided she was insane.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.”
― Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 6

“But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.”
― Ann Aguirre, Horde

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“When someone out there says that I’m not really human—what are they giving themselves permission to do to me?”
― Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Steals the Show