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And Scipio Aemilanus took a seat on a camp chait that a different boy unfolded for him. "Will you light a fire?" he asked me.
"Alas," I said. "I have no hands. I'm surprised you've never noticed." (fox)
The Holy rolled his eyes. "Will you order one lit?"
"Of course," I said. "Scipio, light a fire."

Smrť musí existovať, aby mal život zmysel.

V životě zažijeme přátelství, pro která čas nehraje žádnou roli, ani čas prožitý společně, ale ani ten, kdy jsme si z nějakého důvodu vzdálení.

People are like constellations that touchthe earth for a season.

Life is not so simple as loom. What you weave, you cannot unravel with a tug.

Gods pretend to be parents, but they are children, clapping their hands and shouting for more.

If I burned down the world, he would burn with it.

Is one life worth more than another? I have never thought so.

If Glaucos remained a mortal, then he would grow old, and if he grew old he would die, and there would be a day upon that shore when I would come and he would not.

324 "Nie som nešťastná," povedala mi tá žena. "Som len... na konci."
Ale nesmrteľnosť podľa definície znamená, že na konci nie sme nikdy, až kým kosec nerozhodne inak. Naša existencia už nie je dočasná, no naše pocity áno.

Zistil som, že ľudské bytosti sa zo svojich prečinov učia tak často ako zo svojich dobrých skutkov.

"To je všetko? Vojdeš mi do hlavy, aby si mi povedal, že som dôležitá, živá alebo mŕtva, a potom ma odkopneš na kraj chodníka? To nie je fér! Musíš mi dať viac!"
"Na kraji chodníka sa dá robiť všeličo. Vykročiť z neho, čo môže byť začiatkom cesty, ktorá zmení život. Alebo odtiaľ niekoho strčiť pod nákladiak."

"Milujeme vás!"
"Prečo? Môžem kedykoľvek ukončiť vašu existenciu, tak prečo by ste ma mali milovať?"

"Ale vy ho musíte použiť," nástojil, "ako pripomienku."
"Pripomienku čoho?"
"Že kosec je len nástrojom smrti, ale to vaša ruka ho vedie..."

Just because you're loving them differently than they love doesn't make it any less loving.

"My friends would never hurt me."
"Your friends will hurt you the most."

Ľudia si radi vymýšľajú obludy a obludnosti. Potom si sami pripadajú menej obludní. Keď pijú do nemoty, klamú, kradnú, mlátia ženu bičom, hladom moria starú mater, umlátia sekerou líšku, čo sa chytila do pasce alebo prevŕtavajú šípmi posledného jednorožca na svete, radi si myslia, že predsa len obludnejšia ako oni je mora, čo sa na úsvite vkráda do chalúp. Akosi sa im na srdci uľaví. A ľahšie sa im žije.

A presvedčil som sa, že povolanie zaklínača si skutočne zasluhuje úctu. Bránite nás nielen pred zlom, čo číha v tme, ale aj pred tým, čo drieme v nás samých."

Gray is the color of truth. The same in art as in life, nothing is ever as black and white as it looks.

Do not fault yourself for choices you believed were right in the moment.

"It's funny - you don't think of doctors getting ill." It's true, and I think it's part of something bigger: patients don't actually think of doctors as being human.

So I told them the truth: the hours are terrible, the pay is terrible, the conditions are terrible; you're underappreciated, unsupported, disrespected and frequently physically endangered. But there's no better job in the world.

Why do we always say that people lost their battle with cancer, and never that cancer won its battle against them?

The other thing I realize is that none of her many, many concerns are about herself; it's all about the kids, her husband, her sister, her friends. Maybe that's the definition of a good person.

We had love for a time, which is more than most get.

Hope is a dangerous thing. Most of the pain in the world was because of hope.

The only thing that's permanent is death. Life changes constantly.

She had gotten love, and that was more than plenty of people got on this planet.

My heart is yours. Beating or still.

The fear of losing the ones we love makes us do selfish and foolish and cruel things.