Danielle > Danielle's Quotes

“Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.”
― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

“We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies.”
― A. Lee Martinez, A Nameless Witch

“Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.”
― A. Lee Martinez, A Nameless Witch

“Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.”
― A. Lee Martinez, A Nameless Witch

“Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for—in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.”
― Ellen Goodman

“Your mistake, indeed the mistake of your inherently finite senses, is to view the universe as an extension of yourself. You expect that, like you, it should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. but what you fail to understand is that everything you consider to be you, except for that rather silly imaginary part you call consciousness, is merely bits and pieces borrowed from the universe, and to the universe it will all return. You had no beginning, and you will have no ending. Everything that is you has always been and will always be.”
― A. Lee Martinez, Monster

“Ned felt vaguely insulted. And unimportant. It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.”
― A. Lee Martinez, In the Company of Ogres

“All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.”
― A. Lee Martinez, In the Company of Ogres