Katie > Katie's Quotes

“But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if
evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows
disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the
shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.
Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because
of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid.”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Who told you that there is no true, faithful, eternal love in this world! May the liar’s vile tongue be cut out!”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I did not feel better. I would not feel better for a very long time. Already, I was coming undone, like a hastily tied scarf coming loose, on the ground before the owner is aware of it.”
― Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Stay with Me

“she wondered why men needed all that space when their answers to everything were always ‘no’.”
― Balli Kaur Jaswal, Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

“Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?'
'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.”
― Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“I sailed a sea of emotion,
to wander a forest of scars,
I am a dance of
Light and darkness,
A galaxy of shadow and stars”
― R. Queen

“That’s the thing about great love. It elevates everything around it. You walk through a forest together and it becomes a great temple. You eat a meal together and you sit at God’s banquet table. You merge your bodies and all heaven breaks loose. That’s why we can’t stop singing about love. Every verse is a cry for wholeness.”
― Jeff Brown, An Uncommon Bond

“Sometimes love finds you when it’s ready. And when you’re ready too. How that happens is anybody’s guess. Love is the great mystery stew, its secrets well kept, its ingredients known to providence alone. While both people are being prepared, marinated, skewered,cooked to readiness in the fires of life, the cosmic alchemist is turning the pot, reverently preparing the base for the lovers who will meld into it. Only God knows when the stew is ready to be served. Divine timing, Divine dining…”
― Jeff Brown

“You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch - it’s timeless. It doesn’t care how long you know someone. It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection. What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, resonance that enlivens it, resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins…”
― Jeff Brown

“Possessing no machines, he keeps his body fit. Cut off from all communication, he deciphers the language of the trees. Released from the grip of television, he discovers that a window is more transparent than a TV screen.”
― Sylvain Tesson, The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga

“I would have done anything for that feeling, and did. I wish I could feel that way now, to make all the awfulness inside me go away. But I can’t. I just have to sit here, and feel all of it. Every last horrible thing.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

“The truth is the thorn, not the rose.”
― Maiya Ibrahim, Spice Road

“It is a pity, Imani, how little of your people’s history you truly know. The truth has been hidden from you, and you have welcomed the deception with open arms.”
― Maiya Ibrahim, Spice Road

“for instilling within souls that gravest form of rebellion: liberty; this is what I thought — following paths as fantastical as they were tragic — books would disappear, readers and all, and the final battle would begin, the final inquisition.”
― Evelio Rosero, Toño the Infallible

“She glanced around before departing, as if to avoid leaving her soul behind.”
― Evelio Rosero, Toño the Infallible

“For your iron heart and viper’s smile, for your deadly schemes, for your hypocritical soul, for your seductive deception and false sensitivity, for the pleasure you find in the pain of others, for your fraternity with Cain, I come to condemn you to be your own hell.”
― Evelio Rosero, Toño the Infallible

“looked at first glance like an advertisement for her true crime obsession, a fixation that every millennial woman thought made her darker and more interesting than she actually was.”
― Avery Carpenter Forrey, Social Engagement

“Crazy people are the most interesting people in the world if you’d just let them be who they are. Medicating and drugging people until they’re mindless zombies would make anyone depressed, you dumb bitch.”
― H.D. Carlton, Satan's Affair

“Non omnis moriar. The line, from the end of Horace’s odes, translates as “Not all of me shall die,” which Neukomm obviously meant as a reference to the lasting musical genius of his mentor.”
― Colin Dickey, Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius

“He’s always been the one. Even when they’re apart, even when they hate each other, she still knows that.”
― Samantha Downing, A Twisted Love Story

“I couldn’t find the bullet.” She fixed him with the eye that still held a lively shadow of brown. “You are El Tragabalas,” she said with a small smile. “The bullet swallower.”
― Elizabeth Gonzalez James, The Bullet Swallower

“maybe coming here was just going to layer more things onto him and make him so heavy that he would fold, crash under new and unexpected skins.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Little Rot

“The harm we don’t intend hurts the worst, and the door into Hell is always open.”
― Elizabeth Gonzalez James, The Bullet Swallower

“Never mind if she sat out on her balcony at home sometimes and fought the urge to find him again, wondered what they could be like if they hadn’t crashed together the way they had, wondered what could have been in another time line.”
― Akwaeke Emezi, Little Rot