Damaris > Damaris's Quotes

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.”
― John Mayer

“Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“No true hero ever believes that they are one.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Cowards hide [...] but warriors lie and wait [...] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“One cannot let the events of one's past murder one's future.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.’ That about sums up my whole life, doesn’t it?”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“She idly wonders which is crueler, man or nature. She determines it must be man. Nature has no remorse, but neither does it have malice.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“(B)ut when the time is right and the winds begin to change, even the deadest of dreams can be resurrected.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“They have elevated him on a pedestal, but...a pedestal is nothing more than an elegant cage. No walls, no locks, but unless one has wings to fly away, one is trapped. A pedestal is the most insidious prison ever devised.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“...One thing you learn when you've lived as long as I have-people aren't all good, and people aren't all bad. We move in and out of darkness and light all of our lives. Right now, I'm pleased to be in the light.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to, It's like an art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world he could paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on the side of a face... See if you paint wrong because that's the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you're an artist...You can take that to the grave and dig it up when you need it.”
― Neal Shusterman, Unwind

“Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

“Sure, when you're in the midst of your own suffering, it's easy to convince yourself that you're no good—but we are all tested in this life...The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly