Jack Stark > Jack's Quotes

“Lila’s world may believe in Heaven and Hell, but his believed in dust. He was taught early that magic reclaimed magic, and earth reclaimed earth, the two dividing when the body died, the person they had combined to be simply forfeit, lost. Nothing lasted. Nothing remained. Growing”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“It’s humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it’s a still poorer pass to have no one to depend on.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“There they sit, with everyone thinking no more of them than they might of a pretty odd lot of cabbages, yet half the time they’re pattering and clattering away at one another. Why? What is it they patter about? That’s what I want to know.’ I”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“every day it was tomorrow that I’d be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“The leader does the planning, but he’s wise enough not to say so. As the changes become necessary, he slips them in as a concession – temporary, of course – to circumstances, but if he’s good, he’s slipping in the right bits for the ultimate shape.”
― John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids

“Just because I wouldn’t go back if you paid me, that doesn’t mean I want to forget a second of what happened to me. I wouldn’t be who I am if I hadn’t gone to Prism.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“That’s because Narnia was a Christian allegory pretending to be a fantasy series, you asshole,”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“Flirting was safe, flirting was fun; flirting was a way of interacting with her peers without anyone realizing that there was anything strange about her. She could have flirted forever. It was just the things that came after flirting that she had no interest in.”
― Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

“All angels are men, she had said. All men are crows, and all crows are liars. The old woman also used to say that angels were no better than demons, and that if the Maker truly existed then he was surely the cruellest creature in the entire world. The reverend had stopped letting the old woman sleep on the church floor when he found out she’d been saying such things. She froze to death the following Christmas. The”
― Laura M Hughes, Danse Macabre

“The wrong boy, the village said. The wrong boy, the world said. Year after year after year. And Ned believed it.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Witch's Boy

“There is no freedom without wholeness, no hope unless the thing that has been broken is restored.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Witch's Boy

“The strongest trees on the mountain are the short, gnarled jacks. They let themselves bow and twist, and they live. They survive snowstorms and avalanches and wind. Those”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Witch's Boy

“Sister Witch didn’t truck with hoping. Hoping was irrational, impractical, and imprecise. Sister Witch was a solver.”
― Kelly Barnhill, The Witch's Boy

“But what if there’s stuff we don’t know? Mysteries that don’t go along with nature.”
― Marianna Baer, The Inconceivable Life of Quinn

“Lot had always enjoyed running, it gave him a beautiful freedom from his own insecurities. It was an opportunity to switch everything off, transfer all power to his legs, and just coast along peacefully. Right”
― Dave Johnston, The Lot of a Nobody

“Vasya felt cold despite the steam. “Why would I choose to die?” “It is easy to die,” replied the bannik. “Harder to live.”
― Katherine Arden, The Bear and the Nightingale

“Since that day when he went as far as tying a piece of towing rope to the light fixture on the ceiling and putting it around his neck, then deciding he wasn’t yet ready, he has felt a kinship with the spirit world. He had felt death enter the room then exit again, like a student walking into the wrong class. Clyde realised that there were mysterious and powerful things in existence; things that had tried to entice him to the other side before.”
― Stephanie Victoire, The Other World, It Whispers

“YOU FEAR TO DIE? ‘It’s not that I don’t want … I mean, I’ve always … it’s just that life is a habit that’s hard to break …”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

“Sometimes that’s all you can do. Just keep getting through until you don’t have to do it anymore, however much time that takes, however difficult it is.”
― Seanan McGuire, Beneath the Sugar Sky

“Now my hand tested the boy. Knuckles drawn up, spider-like, I walked my fingers over the table in careful steps, not taking my eyes from his face.”
― Rebecca Gransden, Rusticles

“What we are witnessing from neoliberal-capitalist-corporatist governments and the corporations that ultimately govern them is 21st century eugenics, with austerity being a weapon in the armoury. Simple as. The “disposable poor” are not useful, therefore need to be socially eradicated.”
― The Anti-Austerity Collective, The Anti-Austerity Anthology

“As always, your attempts to stop us doing whatever the fuck we want are scheduled for a futile discussion involving people much richer and more important than you, just because you managed to fill a list of a hundred thousand other bitter losers.”
― The Anti-Austerity Collective, The Anti-Austerity Anthology

“When one dies they neither ascend to the heavens nor descend to hell, they instead become cured—freed from an illness and healed from the suffering of mortality. Our consciousness, our awareness, is a symptom of our body and it is secondary to the mystery of our physical chemistry.”
― E.B. Hudspeth, The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black

“Kawataro,” she says, tears prickling at the corner of her eyes. “Kawataro, why did you save me?” “Kindness is always worth saving.”
― Isabel Yap, A Cup of Salt Tears

“Interaction in general was enough to make her stomach bubble like a witch’s cauldron. She hadn’t always been that way – sun-filled memories of working in an office came back to her. When had it changed?”
― Madeleine Swann, Fortune Box

“I stood here, and saw before me the unutterable, the unthinkable gulf that yawns profound between two worlds, the world of matter and the world of spirit; I saw the great empty deep stretch dim before me, and in that instant a bridge of light leapt from the earth to the unknown shore, and the abyss was spanned.”
― Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan