...This is a place of learning where very few learn anything of value. That you, who have courage and intelligence, are held in contempt by most of your kind here because you have no sorcery... I have seen you protect others, though they consider you to be weaker than they. I have seen a very few decent people, like the boy we took from the tower. I have seen women trade pleasure for coin to feed their children, and others do the same so that they could ignore their children while making themselves foolish with wines and powders. I have seen men who labor as long as the sun is up go home to wives who hold them in contempt for never being there. I have seen men beat and use those whom they should protect, even their own children. I have seen your kind place others of their own in slavery. I have seen them fighting to be free of the same. I have seen men of the law betray it, men who hate the law be kind. I have seen gentle defenders, sadistic healers, creators of beauty scorned while craftsmen of destruction are worshiped. Your Kind, Aleran, are the most vicious and gentle, most savage and noble, most treacherous and loyal, most terrifying and fascinating creatures I have ever seen.
Jim ButcherTag: inspirational insightful honest
That's what I want, a mental evidence I can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to go out and drag in. I want evidence that you can carry in your mind and always touch and smell and feel. But there's no way to do that. In order to believe in a thing you've got to carry it with you. You can't carry the Earth, or a man, in your pocket. I want a way to do that, carry things with me always, so I can believe in them. How clumsy to have to go to all the trouble of going out and bringing in something terribly physical to prove something. I hate physical things because they can be left behind and become impossible to believe in them.
Ray BradburyTag: insightful evidence truthful-in-every-way
There’s nothing you could do to make me any more or less gay, Dad. It’s who I am.”
“It’s not who you are. It’s part of who you are, but it’s not who you are. You’re so much more than just that, and I’m proud of you. All of you." ~ Lucas' Father
Tag: insightful inspirational-quotes
Soil, blood, seed- Let me draw strength from you. let it be enough.
Emily WhitmanTag: insightful bravery encouragement wishing wishful-thinking awww
...the more of a fool a man is, the less he cares to look like one
Joe AmbercrombieTag: insightful humour interesting
You make yourself too hard, you make yourself brittle too. Crack once, crack all to pieces
Joe AmbercrombieTag: insightful helpful
In space you don't stop.
Christopher CarosaTag: science insightful
The pursuit of historical revelance is an under appreciated endeavor.
Michael DwinnellTag: insightful philosophy-of-life humorous-philosophy
Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.
Dan KrokosTag: insightful hurtful-words
People of civilized countenance made much of exposing the soft underbellies of their psyche - effete and sensitive were the brands of finer breeding. It was easy for them, safe, and that was the whole point, after all: a statement of coddled opulence that burned the throats of the poor more than any ostentatious show of wealth.
Steven EriksonTag: insightful survival poverty social-norms malazan social-status steven-erikson malazan-book-of-the-fallen deadhouse-gates social-stagnation book-fo-the-fallen
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