Kaustubh Dudhane > Kaustubh's Quotes

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
― Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
― Confucius

“Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.”
― Anonymous

“Bravery, after all, isn't the absence of fear. Bravery is the acknowledgement and the conquering of fear.”
― Derek Landy, Playing with Fire

“Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
― Steven Spielberg

“Nothing is ever quite as terrifying as your own mind.”
― Cameron Johnston, The Traitor God

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”
― Paul Theroux

“A writer is not always conscious of the influences he has received.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.
What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.”
― David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

“Victory is worth any cost. Defeat is a coin with no value," Guang said”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“Even the people that lived here bundled up against the cold. Haruto just didn't feel it. Perhaps he felt nothing.
"A man so broken, his curse untold. He seeks not redemption, no way to atone." Guang smiled and decided to commit that one to memory.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“These were the worst moments for Guang, watching his friend fight yokai and knowing he was useless to help. He knew Haruto wouldn't die, knew that he couldn't. Guang had seen proof of it many times, but he also knew every wound hurt. And there was always the chance, no matter how slim, that Haruto's immortality could fail him.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“But it's idiotic. Not swearing doesn't make you a better person. It just makes you a sanctimonious tit. Besides, you do swear. The words you use aren't important. It's the intent that matters. Substituting vegetables for swearwords doesn't mean you're not cursing.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“Sometimes, he wondered which god he had insulted that made people cling to him so tightly.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“Guang always said that immortality was a generous reward for merely hunting yokai, but he had it backwards. Immortality wasn't the reward. It was the price Haruto had to pay.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“It's alright to be scared. Fear doesn't make you weak, it makes you human.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“Cabbage, old man, if you save someone's life you better be prepared to take responsibility.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“It never stops hurting. But that's how you know they meant something. The pain is a reminder of the good times, not the bad.”
― Rob J. Hayes, Spirits of Vengeance

“This is the thing about good and evil. They aren't so far apart - and they often start from the same valiant place of wanting something to be different.”
― Laura Dave, The Last Thing He Told Me

“It was no dream. The Ben-Elim, he gave me a choice. Go forward or go back. I wanted to cross over, to be with my kin, my friends. To find peace.´

´Why did you come back, then?´Fidele asked him.
´Three reasons. Three people. Jael. Lykos. You.´He paused and looked up into her eyes. ´Two for vengeance. One for love.´
She stared at him a long, timeless moment, then she leaned forwards and kissed him. Page 273 (Fidele and Maquin)”
― John Gwynne, Ruin

“They will try,” Jasnah said, “to define you by something you are not. Don’t let them. I can be a scholar, a woman, a historian, a Radiant. People will still try to classify me by the thing that makes me an outsider. They want, ironically, the thing I don’t do or believe to be the prime marker of my identity. I have always rejected that, and will continue to do so.” She reached over and put her freehand on his arm. “You are not a heretic, Dalinar Kholin. You are a king, a Radiant, and a father. You are a man with complicated beliefs, who does not accept everything you are told. You decide how you are defined. Don’t surrender that to them. They will gleefully take the chance to define you, if you allow it.” Dalinar nodded slowly.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer