“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.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
"Where does it come from?"
"From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.”
― The Way of Kings
"Where does it come from?"
"From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.”
― The Way of Kings
“And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
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