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“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

“There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Who is now alone, will long remain so, / will wake, read, write long letters / and wander restlessly here and there / along the avenues, as the leaves are drifting.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“Most of our attempts throughout human history to describe the difference between right and wrong have been feeble and cruel and unjust, but that the difference still remains- beyond ourselves, beyond each specific culture, beyond every individual person who has ever lived or died, And we spend our lives trying to know that difference and to live by it, trying to love other people instead of hating them, and there is nothing else that matters on the earth.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
― Robert Jordan

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing. And if that means the human species is going to die out, isn't it in a way a nice reason to die out, the nicest reason you can imagine? Because when we should have been reorganising the distribution of the world's resources and transitioning collectively to a sustainable economic model, we were worrying about sex and friendship instead. Because we loved each other too much and found each other too interesting. And I love that about humanity, and in fact it's the very reason I root for us to survive - because we are so stupid about each other.”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Meeting your soul mate is like walking into a house you've been in before - you will recognize the furniture, the pictures on the wall, the books on the shelves, the contents of drawers: You could find your way around in the dark if you had to.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“I didn’t know you could get buried in your own silence.”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. —RUMI”
― Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun

“My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Quiet friend who has come so far,
feel how your breathing makes more space around you.
Let this darkness be a bell tower
and you the bell. As you ring,

what batters you becomes your strength.
Move back and forth into the change.
What is it like, such intensity of pain?
If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine.

In this uncontainable night,
be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses,
the meaning discovered there.

And if the world has ceased to hear you,
say to the silent earth: I flow.
To the rushing water, speak: I am.

- Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me for I, too, am fluent in silence.”
― R. Arnold

“He was a soldier. He was a shepherd. He was a beggar, and a king. He was a farmer, gleeman, sailor, carpenter. He was born, lived, and died Aiel. He died mad, he died rotting, he died of sickness, accident, age. He was executed, and multitudes cheered his death. He proclaimed himself the Dragon Reborn and flung his banner across the sky; he ran from the Power and hid; he lived and died never knowing. He held off the madness and the sickness for years; he succumbed between two winters. Sometimes Moiraine came and took him away from the Two Rivers, alone or with those of his friends who had survived Winternight; sometimes she did not. Sometimes other Aes Sedai came for him. Sometimes Red Ajah. Egwene married him; Egwene, stern-faced in stole of Amyrlin Seat, led Aes Sedai who gentled him; Egwene, with tears in her eyes, plunged a dagger into his heart, and he thanked her as he died. He loved other women, married other women. Elayne, and Min, and a fair-haired farmer's daughter met on the road to Caemlyn, and women he had never seen before he lived those lives. A hundred lives. More. So many he could not count them. And at the end of every life, as he lay dying, as he drew his final breath, a voice whispered in his ear. I have won again, Lews Therin. Flicker.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“The Light shine on you, and the Creator shelter you. The last embrace of the mother welcome you home.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Mashiara. Beloved of heart and soul, it meant, but a love lost, too. Lost beyond regaining.”
― Robert Jordan, The Great Hunt

“Sordukları zaman, bana ne iş yaptığımı, evli olup olmadığımı, kocamın ne iş yaptığını, ana babamın ne olduklarını sordukları zaman, ne gibi koşullarda yaşadığımı, yanıtlarımı nasıl memnunlukla onayladıklarını yüzlerinde okuyorum. Ve hepsine haykırmak istiyorum. Onayladığınız yanıtlar yalnızca bir yüzey. Ne düzenli bir iş, ne iyi bir konut, ne sizin medeni durum dediğiniz durumsuzluk, ne de başarılı bir birey olmak ya da sayılmak benim gerçeğim değil. Bu kolay olgulara, siz bu düzeni böylesine saptadığınız için ben de eriştim. Hem de hiç bir çaba harcamadan. Belki de hiç istediğim gibi çalışmadan. istediğiniz düzeye erişmek o denli kolay ki… Ama insanın gerçek yeteneğini, tüm yaşamını, kanını, aklını, varoluşunu verdiği iç dünyasının olgularının sizler için hiç bir değeri yok ki. bırakıyorsun insan onları kendisiyle birlikte gömsün. Ama hayır, hiç değilse susarak hepsini yüzünüze haykırmak istiyorum. Sizin düzeninizle, akıl anlayışınızla, namus anlayışınızla, başarı anlayışınızla bağdaşan hiç yönüm yok. Aranızda dolaşmak için giyiniyorum, hem de iyi giyiniyorum. İyi giyinene iyi değer verdiğiniz için. İçgüdülerimi hiç bir işte uygulamama izin vermediğiniz için. Hiç bir çaba harcamadan bunları yapabiliyorum, bir şey yapıldı sanıyorsunuz. Yaşamım boyunca içimi kemirttiniz. Evlenizle. Okullarınızla. İş yerlerinizle. Özel ya da resmi kuruluşlarınızla içimi kemirttiniz. Ölmek istedim, dirilttiniz. Yazı yazmak istedim, aç kalırsın, dediniz. Aç kalmayı dendim, serum verdiniz. Delirdim, kafama elektrik verdiniz. Hiç aile olmayacak insanla bir araya geldim, gene aile olduk. Ben bütün bunların dışındayım. Şimdi tek konuğu olduğum bu otelden ayrılırken, hangi otobüs ya da tren istasyonuna, hangi havaalanı ya da hangi limana doğru gideceğimi bilmediğim bu sabahta, iyi, başarılı, düzenli bir insandan başka her şey olduğumu duyuyorum.”
― Tezer Özlü, Yaşamın Ucuna Yolculuk

“But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I'll never get used to being alive. It's a mystery. Always startled to find I've survived.”
― John Steinbeck, Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“He’s stuck out there. He thinks he’s totally alone and that we all gave up on him. What kind of effect does that have on a man’s psychology?” He turned back to Venkat. “I wonder what he’s thinking right now.”

LOG ENTRY: SOL 61 How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian