Kirbi

Add friend

https://www.goodreads.com/femaledoubt

Kirbi’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (270)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (271)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

favorites‎ (9)
interested‎ (0)

Stats | More…

“Every single empire in it’s official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And sadder still, there’s always a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires, as if one shouldn’t trust the evidence of one’s eyes watching the destruction and the misery and the death brought by the latest mission civilizatrice.”
― Edward W. Said, Orientalism

1 likes

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself. And when finally they set the structures to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few time and subsided, for there were no other grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now, it's too late.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

2 likes

“Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know.”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

tags: fantasy, horror, philospohy, ray-bradbury, something-wicked-this-way-comes

5 likes

“Not that everything "went black," nothing of the sort; only that the event itself is cloudy because of some primitive, numbing effect that obscured it at the time; the same effect, I suppose, that enables panicked mothers to swim icy rivers, or rush into burning houses, for a child; the effect that occasionally allows a deeply bereaved person to make it through a funeral without a singe tear. Other things—naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror—are too terrible to really ever grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory, that the realization dawns; when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself—quite to one's surprise—in an entirely different world.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

4 likes

“What's in that house, child, knows more than you know. What's in that house don't come out of your mind. It don't have to worry 'bout rules and behaving like a spirit ought to behave. It does what it does to fool you, it wants to trick you into believing what's not right. It's got no truth to it. What it did last week it's not gone be doing today. You see something in there, it wasn't there yesterday, it's not gone be there tomorrow. You stand at one of them doors thinking something's behind it—nothing's behind it. It's waiting for you upstairs, it's waiting for you downstairs. It's standing behind you. You think it's buried in the sand, why then, it's gone be standing behind that door after all! And you don't ever know what it is you looking for. You don't ever know what it is you gone see! Wasn't no ghost you saw, wasn't Martha Ann.”
― Michael McDowell, The Elementals

0 likes

More of Kirbi’s quotes…