Henry Reign > Henry's Quotes

“You’ve been robbed. Those times, where did they go? Once so alive but now hidden in a mass grave. And that’s where the future ones are headed. Remember that. All the days to come will vanish thus. What value or meaning can they contain? We are hoarders of dust.”
― Petronius Jablonski, Schrodinger's Dachshund: A Novel of Espionage, Astounding Science, and Wiener Dogs

“To fantasize is to fertilize that dark garden growing inside your head.”
― Valentin V., No More Normies: The First Notebook

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.”
― John Irving, The World According to Garp

“because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“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

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
― Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands

“My mother had said sometime that spices are not tastes themselves, but sort of enhancers that bring out certain characteristics of whatever they’re eaten with, like keys to open locks of flavor. So to this theory if you applied yourself, only taking the spice itself into mouth, say a pinch of salt on your tongue – you could actually taste some part of yourself you didn’t know.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“The Rainmaker sleeps a different kind of sleep, a kind of sleep where you don’t dream but think — very deeply, as if enhanced by the night. Guarding sleep. The sleep of someone who cares too much about others to surrender into the void. The sleep of a sad man who thinks he’s accountable for others’ happy but not his own.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“The girl fixes her position, so that her back is against the dull side of the blade. Fun to think how they didn’t make it sharp both sides. Maybe some people don’t deserve the sharp side. Or maybe dulling evil is more effective than simply killing it.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“Give anything a decade and even the freshest pleasure dulls into a big portion of boredom.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“To be sad because one is sad – that’s a cheap kind of sad, a kind of sad you find in proud people that think they’re better but don’t have anything to show for it. The Rainmaker is sad for no reason at all. He’s just sad. There’s something noble about it, admitting you can’t leash your emotions like a sailor does with wind.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“The pot is all but rust and bent with only a few spots of silver in it. A poet could see a galaxy in it. If only words could make one warm – if only warmth could live on like the words of a great poet.”
― Henry Reign, When Fire Met Rain

“A man may live like a fool for a year, and become wise in a day.”
― John Williams, Augustus

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.”
― Abraham Lincoln