Aaron Carson > Aaron's Quotes

“As for the opposite of kindness, which I have known well, it deserves no name.”
― James Reese, The Book of Shadows

“I think they could teach us unimaginable things.

Unimaginable! I can't imagine anything except danger.

I know. That's why they're afraid of you.”
― Patricia A. McKillip, Od Magic

“The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause will never wear that face.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

“Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.”
― Rebecca Carson, Mysterious Vortex

“Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“I'll illustrate the cover of your book for a million dollars. Wait, just let me find my crayons.”
― Ederyn Khushrenada

“We had given it a name, a substance, and somehow, in doing that, we had condemned ourselves.”
― Storm Constantine

“The executioner's argument was that you couldn't cut of something's head unless there was a trunk to sever it from. He'd never done anything like that in his time of life, and wasn't going to start now.

The King's argument was that anything that had a head, could be beheaded, and you weren't to talk nonsense.

The Queen's argument was that if something wasn't done about it in less than no time, she'd have everyone beheaded all round.

It was this last argument that had everyone looking so nervous and uncomfortable.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“Forced to chose between one irascible tyrant and another, Laura had chosen the one which was greater, and also further away.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“It's okay, mummy's in there lying on the floor. She'll be alright in an hour or so.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye

“Can you tell me the difference between a witch and a wizard?

Sure, a wizard is what they call you when they want to hire you, and a witch is what they call you when they're getting ready to run you out of town.”
― Barbara Hambly, The Witches of Wenshar

“What was glimpsed in Aquarius-what was envisioned, believed in, prophesied, predicted, doubted, and forewarned-is made, in Pisces, manifest. Those solitary visions that, but a month ago belonged only to the dreamer, will now acquire the form and substance of the real. We were of our own making, and we shall be our own end.”
― Eleanor Catton

“Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?
Juniper: I can't be bothered.”
― Monica Furlong, Wise Child

“And it must have been then, they caught him all unaware, and lured him away with haunting melodies of earth, ancient and long remembered, of pagan mysteries, and the gossamer fine edge of the gifts they tendered. They extracted a promise, I feel sure they did, and their secret purpose, they hid, they hid.”
― Rebecca Carson, Mysterious Vortex

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“When I was seventeen I found a man, or maybe he found me. Away from home for the first time, out of reach of my father’s archaic restrictions and my mother’s culinary insistence, I cut off my hair, dropped my Christian name, wore black and toyed with anorexia, passing incognito among the city workers, just another ant in that vast heap.”
― Nell Grey

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
― H.P Lovecraft

“Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters?”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.”
― Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”
― H. P. Lovercraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

“Jealousy, like poetry, is incomprehensible to me.”
― Kij Johnson, The Fox Woman

“The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.”
― Kij Johnson, Fudoki

“Never mind,' she said, 'I don't see the point of a God.'
'And I don't see much point in a cat.' the Kami replied.”
― Kij Johnson, Fudoki

“We had loved people we really shouldn't have loved and then married other people in order to forget our impossible loves, or we had called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.”
― Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“We can passively take our place in the negative chain, accepting the harm to ourselves and passing it on to others. Or we can break the chain and turn the energy of a destructive emotion into a constructive action.”
― Laura Archera Huxley