Quotes of: Wright Keyword

It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another

River of Stars

Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all.

The Rose Society

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

The Square Book

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

The Square Book

What others think about you is none of your business.

The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Hacemos lo que hacemos porque hay algo que podemos hacer al respecto. Las cosas como «¿cuanto tiempo?» y «¿que pasará?» no forman parte de eso. Se trata de esperanza, no del horror.

Scarlet

But never in all her human days had her blood bubbled with such a golden exultation and such blissful freedom as now when she ran, a werewolf, across the marsh.

Sudenmorsian

What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.

Seduce the Darkness

He licked at her lips."We are going to have some amazing children. The best this world has ever seen.

Seduce the Darkness

... "You may not see the ocean, but right now we are in the middle of the ocean, and we have to keep swimming.

Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

The Shining Girls

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

The Shining Girls

I'm scared, Mom." ... "It's okay, honey. It's all right. That's the big secret, don't you know? Everyone is. All the time.

The Shining Girls

Holy fellatio! You are standing there licking him up with your eyes! Do you freaking hear the old seventies porn music playing in your head?

Saving Grace

Nothing is infinitely reducible. You can split an atom but you can't vaporize it. Stuff sticks around. It clings to you, even when it's broken.

The Shining Girls

(…) everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' (…) 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.

The Shining Girls

This is the real power of joy, to make us certain that, beneath all grief, the most fundamental of realities is joy itself.

Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

Although we cannot command it, we choose joy, making a deliberate commitment to happiness (essentially another word for peace).

Sister Wendy's Meditations on Joy

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.

Made For His Pleasure: Ten Benchmarks of a Vital Faith