K.S. Blom > K.S.'s Quotes

“Magic—be it good or bad—is no simple matter. Most amateurs think that all you have to do is murmur some secret hocus-pocus—at the very most it might be necessary to wave around a magic wand like a conductor-and presto, the metamorphosis or conjuring is achieved.
But that's not all there is to it. In reality, every kind of magic is incredibly complicated; one needs an enormous amount of knowledge, masses of paraphernalia, material that is, for the most part, very hard to obtain, as well as days, and sometimes months, of preparation.
Plus the fact that it is always an extremely dangerous business, for even the slightest mistake can have a totally unforeseeable effect.”
― Michael Ende, The Night of Wishes

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”
― Stephen King, Bag of Bones

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”
― Olin Miller

“In my dreams I kiss your cunt, your sweet wet cunt. In my thoughts I make love to you all day long.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“Never tell anyone about all the shit you can do, or they will expect you to do it for free.”
― Jay Manuel, The Wig, the Bitch & the Meltdown

“Here’s how to fulfill a prophecy: you are a woman, you speak the truth, and the world makes you into a liar.”
― Tess Sharpe, Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

“Change is good.”
― R. L. Stine a

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“There is a defiance in being a dreamer”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“(The fonder the memory, the deeper the ache.)”
― Prince Harry, Spare

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Spoken by Arthur Weasley

“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“The storm is in your bones.”
― Leigh Bardugo, King of Scars

“Unfortunately the accumulation of physical objects doesn’t disperse bad memories.”
― Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

“A lie. A dream. Good stories are both.”
― a.j. hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten

“She was important because we thought she was important. That's how everything happens. every war, every religion, every love story. We invest things with significance. so while the whole of creation was turning around her, it made her sheer existence more powerful than Time Lords and gods. In the end, the most important person was the most ordinary. a scared little girl making her baby safe.”
― David Bishop, Doctor Who: Empire of Death

“Mind control is pretty easy. All the ingredients are always there, it’s just that people don’t have the recipe.”
― Chase Hughes, Phrase Seven

“Manifestation is about cultivating a fierce belief in possibility.”
― James R. Doty, Mind Magic: The Neuroscience of Manifestation and How It Changes Everything

“The world surrounding me possesses an undeniable beauty, yet it has fundamentally shattered every aspect of my being.”
― Jonathan Harnisch, Sex, Drugs, and Schizophrenia

“Man is born of woman.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“We never thought of ourselves as witches, my mother and I. For this was a word invented by men, a word that brings power to those who speak it, not those it describes.”
― Emilia Hart, Weyward

“When I was born, the word for what I was did not exist.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“Will you tell me, what is a mortal like?” It was a child’s question, but he nodded gravely. “There is no single answer. They are each different. The only thing they share is death. You know the word?” “I know it,” I said. “But I do not understand.” “No god can. Their bodies crumble and pass into earth. Their souls turn to cold smoke and fly to the underworld. There they eat nothing and drink nothing and feel no warmth. Everything they reach for slips from their grasp.” A chill shivered across my skin. “How do they bear it?” “As best they can.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“you're never too old to wake up to the sight of a beautiful woman.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London