The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments...
If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.
I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.
Ich werde nicht alles erreichen, was ich will, aber ich werde alles probieren, was ich kann.
The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It's true that you can bomb or buy out anybody that you want to, but you can't control the rage that's building in the world. You just can't. And that rage will express itsel...
You’re doing it again,” he said. “Doing what?” I asked, wondering if I had done something wrong. “Melting my heart with your smile,” he said.
Again Gabe looked back at Michael, hoping he was about to step in, but all he did was give him a nod. A nod? Really? I don't need a nod. I need someone to stop this! Gabe thought.
Day in and day out we learn to train and grow as Guardians. We do as we're told and follow the rules. We all work hard. Now it's our turn to watch some demons tremble in fear! It's our turn to watch the hunters become the hunted. Who's ready to see s...
Bottom line? As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they...
Whoa, who peed in your Cheerios?
I am much fucking angrier than you think.
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
That's what dreams are really like, you know? They're not full of melting clocks or floating roses or people made out of rocks. Most of the time, dreams look just like the normal world. It's your feelings that tell you something's off. Not your mind,...
[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a...
Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl’s laugh grabbed my attention.
You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.
There're three reasons people get away from here: gone good, gone bad or gone dead.
Concentrated power is bad" "(name of chapter)
I watch him go, and wonder if being good isn't its own punishment as much as it's supposed to be its own reward.
Gardens are made of darkness and light entwined.
