I was foolish to believe my roots could expand past all these walls built around me. Your life can only be as big as the container you’re planted in, after all.
“What if we go on,' he said, 'only to more pain and despair? What if we go on, only to find a horrible friend waiting for us?'
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.”
― Queen of Shadows
Aelin looked northward, as if she could see all the way to Terrasen. 'Then it is not the end.”
― Queen of Shadows
“I want something…violent. “Pump It,” by the Black Eyed Peas, yeah.”
― Grey
― Grey
“After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other word? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take “good”, for instance. If you have a word like “good”, what need is there for a word like “bad”? “Ungood” will do just as well – better, because it’s an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of “good”, what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like “excellent” and “splendid” and all the rest of them? “Plusgood” covers the meaning; or “doubleplusgood” if you want something stronger still. Of course we use those forms already, but in the final version of Newspeak there’ll be nothing else. In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words – in reality, only one word.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I don’t have a favorite, but I literally couldn’t go to the gym for practice without my K-pop playlist.”
― The Gravity of Us
― The Gravity of Us
“Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? You have as much charisma as the rotting innards of unidentified roadkill.”
― Ignite Me
― Ignite Me
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