“It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
“Humans see what they want to see.”
― The Lightning Thief
― The Lightning Thief
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things..." she held up four big-knuckled fingers. "...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing..." She closed her fingers into a fist. "...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”
― Dune
― Dune
“A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
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