Dyah > Dyah's Quotes

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Good guys are either taken or gay”
― CLAMP, X/1999, Volume 13: Lament

“It is a miracle to walk on water and to fly through the sky, but the real miracle is to walk on earth. --Immortal Beggar”
― L.G. Bass, Sign of the Qin

“Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them.”
― Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.”
― Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“I like stories about supervillains. They teach children that you can accomplish great things even when the whole world is against you.”
― G.D. Falksen

“Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles?" said John.

"I'm an editor," said Charles. "I have to make decisions like that all the time.”
― James A. Owen, Here, There Be Dragons

“Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.'

How do you figure that?' said Charles.

Well,' said Tummeler, 'have you ever seen a troll, or a Wendigo, or,' he shuddered, 'a Shadow-Born ever eating a blueberry pie?'

No,' Charles admitted.

There y'go,' said Tummeler. It's cause they can't stand the goodness in it.'

Can't argue with you there,' said Charles.

Foods is good and evil, just like people, or badgers, or even scowlers.'

Evil food?' said Charles.

Parsnips,' said Tummeler, 'Them's as evil as they come.”
― James A. Owen, Here, There Be Dragons

“A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.”
― Gilles Deleuze, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

“If you're not happy, just leave. Don't cheat. Doesn't take a genius to figure that shit out. - Kenji”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“When it came to adults, it was better not to talk. They had a way of hearing one thing and processing it as something else. No reason to give them an excuse to hurt you.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“Melukai dengan sadar itu namanya sadis, melukai tanpa sadar itu namanya bodoh. Aku beri tahu, ya... bodoh itu terkadang dosa, lho.”
― Masami Morio, Omake No Kobayashi Kun 7

“Itu nggak sopan. Wajah nggak berekspresi adalah turunan keluarga kami. Atau bu guru... bilang manusia yang nggak tertawa itu nggak merasakan bahagia? Chihiro nggak boleh sekolah di taman kanak-kanak seperti ini. Mulai hari ini dia akan mengundurkan diri.”
― Masami Morio, Omake No Kobayashi Kun 9

“Di dunia ini ibulah yang paling kuat.”
― Masami Morio, Omake No Kobayashi Kun 11

“Selama ini... aku tak pernah sekalipun mengalami perjumpaan tanpa perpisahan...”
― Masami Morio, Omake No Kobayashi Kun 13

“Dibanding yang kau pikirkan, dunia itu selalu saling berhubungan. Manusia dengan manusia itu saling berhubungan. Pertalian antar manusia bukanlah sesuatu yang selemah seperti yang kau pikirkan. Karena itu, janganlah menyerah. Entah di mana akan selalu ada yang memikirkan dirimu.”
― Masami Morio, Omake No Kobayashi Kun 13

“Pandai tersenyum akan membawa kebahagiaan. Jangan lupa, ya?”
― Masami Morio, Omake No Kobayashi Kun 13

“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“There is no greater bore than perfection.”
― Richard Connell, The Most Dangerous Game

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Beware when making a woman cry. God is counting her tears.”
― Paulo Coelho, Adultery