Resigned Quotes

“I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do.
I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.”
― Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

“Rightly tired of the pain İ hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If İ could end it, İ would. But İ can't.”
― stephen king, The Green Mile

“Satisfied to die in the flower of her youth?"

"Well, at peace with you."

"Oh, 'peace'!" he murmured with his eyes on the fire.

"The peace of having loved."

He raised his eyes to her. "Is that peace?"

"Of having been loved," she went on. "That is. Of having," she wound up, "realised her passion. She wanted nothing more. She had had all she wanted.”
― Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

“And she looked at her life and seemed to understand it and to grieve over it as if it were already over.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“The scribe was young, but the eyes he lifted to Moses' were as old as Egypt herself. There was no future in them, only the long past.”
― Dorothy Clarke Wilson, Prince of Egypt

“Maybe it's just as sad when bad people die, because they never lived long enough to redeem themselves."

Crystal turns away and starts heading toward the door, her upper lip twitching. "No. Monsters deserve to die the way they were born: unredeemable.”
― Mallory Arnold, How to Survive a Horror Story

“Sure, I have resigned from specific love affairs since such a stage of life that one can neither afford nor carry out its obligations; consequently, it may earn significant risks of self-isolation.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.”
― Amor Towles;

“She had to go. You have to go," Silka continues. "It's the only way I get back to my people."

"We all have people," I say. "You think yours will ever be able to forget this? I know mine won't." Write me off, Sid. Disown me. Spit when you hear my name. Failing at breaking the arena is nothing in the face of this.

"I'll tell how it was, when I get home," she says.

"Oh, you're not going home, Silka." I pull the ax from my belt. We're neither of us going home. I will kill her, and Snow will kill me. These Games will have no victor.

The second Quarter Quell poster.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“Are you prepared to be merciless, Nanahara?"

Shuya gulped. "Who to? The government?"

"Them too, of course." Kawada nodded. "But I'm asking if you're ready to kill your classmates - not if but when they attack us."

Shuya lowered his head a little, and when he spoke, his voice sounded feeble. "If it comes to that, I won't have any other choice."

"What if it's a girl?"

Shuya's lips tightened. His eyes went to Kawada and then back down. "I won't have any other choice."

"All right then. Just as long as we're clear." Kawada nodded and gripped the shotgun resting on his crossed legs. Then he added," If you're too busy getting all upset every time you kill someone, someone else will come along and kill you.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale: Remastered by Koushun Takami (8-May-2014) Paperback

“What's the point of this game? Is there a point to all this?"

Kawada's eyes widened a little, but then he looked down and let out a chuckle. He must have found the question pretty funny. Then finally, he said, "Of course there isn't."

"But," Noriko interjected, "don't they say it's necessary for national security?"

Keeping the amused smile, Kawada shook his head. "That's crazy talk. Although with how crazy this whole country is, maybe that's what passes for rational."

"Okay, fine." Shuya felt his anger rising. "Then why is it still happening?"

"That's simple. It keeps happening because nobody speaks up.”
― Koushun Takami, Battle Royale: Remastered by Koushun Takami (8-May-2014) Paperback