Aster > Aster's Quotes

“That's the good part about dying; when you've nothing to lose, you can run any risk you want.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies... [Books] show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people only want wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.”
― Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

“The sun burnt everyday. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and people anyway, without any help from him... One of them had to stop burning. The sun wouldn't, certainly. So it looked as if it had to be Montag and the people he had worked with until a few short hours ago.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“... There was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“I want the protection of this girl, even though she never had mine.”
― Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

“If she herself had had any picture of the future, it had been of a society of animals... all equal... the strong protecting the weak... Instead- She did not know why- they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“My daughters would say: You see, Mother, you had no life of your own.

They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“Though nothing will keep us together, we could steal time, just for one day.”
― Katie Cook

“The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.”
― Octavia E Butler

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.”
― Lewis Carroll , Alice in Wonderland