Vladimir > Recent Status Updates

"Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day, in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you'd never know which were which?"

“He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.”

I guess I need to be well versed in Reformed-Calvinistic systematic theology and apologetics to know what’s going on and to fully appreciate the background story and events of this man’s life…which I’m not haha

“[…] if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you — you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”

Two down. Five more stories to go.

It’s okay so far. Not enjoying it as much as I thought I would.

“The swords kissed and sprang apart and kissed again. Jaime’s blood was singing. This was what he was meant for; he never felt so alive as when he was fighting, with death balanced on every stroke.”

“I am surprised,” Tyrion had to confess. “I thought Robb Stark had better sense.”

“He is a boy of sixteen,” said Lord Tywin. “At that age, sense weighs for little, against lust and love and honor.”

“The greatest fools are ofttimes more clever than the men who laugh at them,” - Tywin

“Tell me how this came to be.”

“I took her castle and she took my heart.” Robb smiled.

“They say I am a slave to one woman, which I deny, but can prove that some of them are mere slaves to a hundred.”

“In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.”

“Clever men hatch ambitious schemes.”

- Jorah Mormont

“You were the one who taught me that a good threat is often more telling than a blow.”

- Tyrion

‘I say that, when something is beyond my comprehension, I am in the habit of not wasting any more time on it, but of turning to something else’

‘And now,’ said the stranger, ‘farewell, goodness, humanity, gratitude … Farewell all those feelings that nourish and illuminate the heart! I have taken the place of Providence to reward the good; now let the avenging God make way for me to punish the wrongdoer!’

he must return to life and take his place among men and in society, with the rank, influence and power that are bestowed in this world by wealth – that first and greatest of forces that a human being can control.

Having you close to me for as long as possible, hearing your eloquent voice as it enlightens my mind, re-tempering my soul, making my whole being capable of great and awe-inspiring deeds if ever I should be free, filling my mind and soul so thoroughly that the despair to which I was ready to give way when I met you can no longer find any place in them – this is my fortune. It is not a chimera.

“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.”

to a happy man, a prayer is a monotonous composition, void of meaning, until the day when suffering deciphers the sublime language through which the poor victim addresses God.

Just reading about the misfortunes of the protagonist makes me grateful for the circumstances of my life. If he can persevere through his ordeals, there’s no reason for me to be bored and weak.

‘I promise that I shall do my duty as the crown prosecutor’s deputy conscientiously – that is to say, I shall be utterly pitiless.’ - de Villefort

haha

almost done slogging through this 😩