Every time the clouds wrapped themselves around those cliffs, I would throw myself from them.” “Why?” he pressed. “Because the beauty of the fall was worth the pain of landing.”
Amy Harmon, The First Girl Child (The Chronicles of Saylok)
Quotes
Revenge
No one heals himself by wounding another.
Violence
“I have always felt,” he said, “that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the final sanctuary of the terminally inept.”
Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Truth is absolute
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.”
Flannery O’Connor in a letter to Betty Hester, September 6, 1955
Treasuring my thoughts
“treating my thoughts as treasures worth keeping has been the pivotal element in everything I’ve overcome and achieved.”
Tiago Forte, Building a Second Brain