- We're winning!
- Who is 'we', mon Prince?
- Not a word! I will tell you tomorrow.
The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned in the dark
David MitchellAt least you pay for them.”
“I could support a foundling hospital, and you would applaud my virtue.”
“I didn’t expect you to populate your own orphanage,” she said.
Tags: cynical
One child out of wedlock is an error. Two suggests carelessness. Three—and six—is simply wrong. Wrong.
Eloisa JamesTags: cynical
Writers whose thoughts are expressed with clarity and precision are assumed by readers to be superficial. Where the meaning is obscured, then readers give more attention and consider the fruit of their labour more valuable
Friedrich NietzscheThere just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me a whore in denial and if there’s one thing I am, it’s an honest bitch. Then again, you don’t get famous for being daddy’s little angel, but you can easily fall into the Infamy Bracket by preaching a made-up Bible quote now and again. They say I’m shallow, but I’ve made a living out off diving off the deep end.
Dave MatthesTags: life love living shallow denial cynical famous infamous deep-end
I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.
Steve GoodierTags: cynicism trust cynical trustworthiness trusting depending
Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has done it. He probably meant no malice – he just did not want to see your tears and pleading. If you find him in Tarras you may not like what you discover. He won't thank you for crossing 'mountain and down' to find him. Life is not like the songs Avalon, tis far less pretty.
Sam J. CharltonTags: fantasy cynical realism epic-fantasy
A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth’s future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn’t turning out that way, was it?
A.B. ShepherdTags: cynical hopeless hopeless-situation disheartened
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
Henry David ThoreauTags: pessimism government cynical
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