If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. From the Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
From my CR, Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare: “Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.” ?????
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul. – American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Destined for War / Can America and China Escape Thucydide’s Trap? / Graham Allison / It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable
“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings. Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You’re stupid.” ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.” ― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
“I’m not going to apologize for the way I’ve led my life.” ― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.” –The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
It was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone. From the infernal devices series (not sure which book) by Cassandra Claire
Clockwork Angel, I believe ?
If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. From the Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
From my book journal
Just want to say you have beautiful handwriting
@Jessica thank you! ?
From my CR, Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare:
“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”
?????
“‘Stories are wild creatures,’ the monster said. ‘When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?'”
—A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Beauty fades, but cooking is eternal-Will Herondale
“An eye for an eye leads only to more blindness” Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not fooling a soul. – American Gods by Neil Gaiman
‘We are all here for each other, otherwise what is the f**king point?’ From “I’m a Flamingo in the Toilet Bowl of Life”.
Destined for War / Can America and China Escape Thucydide’s Trap? / Graham Allison / It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable
Stay Gold, Ponyboy, Stay gold… The Outsiders.
This is the only one im planning on getting as a tattoo at the moment,
You could ask anything of me and I’d break myself trying to make you happy – Jace Herondale
“There was nowhere to go ,nothing to buy and no money to buy it with”
To Kill A Mockingbird
“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn’t exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You’re stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
“Some people care too much. I think it’s called love.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“They’re funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you’re having them.”
― A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner
“I’m not going to apologize for the way I’ve led my life.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
Sarah J. Maas — ‘To the stars who listen and the dreams that are answered.’
“Sometimes your heart is the only thing worth listening to.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
“I fear this heart shall be mended, nevermore.”
― Marissa Meyer, Heartless
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
–The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupèry
The Little Prince is so much ?
Ikr! I love the book and film so much. It makes me think deeper about life and the world than I ever have before.
Idk how many times I’ve read the book or watched the movie…. Lol
You are sanity in an insane world. You are reason where there isn’t any reason. Reason to live.” Austin Family Chronicles Book 4 Madeleine L’Engle
Don’t Panic, Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
And always carry a towel 😀
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
from code of Hammurabi
Fredrick Backman, “A Man Called Ove ”