Paper & Blood Quotes

“I supposed it was the difference between wishing to be better and wishing to be best. They are not remotely the same thing.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“The best we can do sometimes, in absence of actual wisdom, is to simply cease being foolish.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Does it get easier?” she said when she returned. [Grief is never easy. But it gets softer around the edges, smoothed over like a river rock given time enough and water. It’s still a rock and it’s heavy and dangerous and capable of hurting you.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“[If you look at long-term market graphs, you’ll see daily dips and spikes but a much smoother curve of daily averages running through those spikes and dips. And the thing about those curves is, they never stay high and never stay low. They move up and down just like the spikes and dips. I cultivate gratitude during the highs and patience during the dips.]”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“secondly because play is creative and vital to growth and a fairly big reason why we enjoy living at all.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Admiring someone for their actions on one day doesnae mean I have tae agree with them on everything after that.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Ye always have tae fight the monsters, no matter where they are. And sometimes, tae do it right, ye need tae enlist the help of some unlikely allies.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Iadmire dogs because they have life figured out. They are here to love and be loved, and that’s pretty much it. There are side jobs they attend to with gusto—eating, napping, barking at squirrels, maybe digging some holes in the yard—but loving others and being loved in return is the main gig, and they know it.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“My point is that you always have to fight the monsters. It’s your duty. You can’t let the monsters win, whether they are big beastly things or tiny fluffy things. We don’t know why they’re doing what they’re doing or why they’re doing it here. But we have to fight them here so everyone else will be safe.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“But you can, as you did, take a drastic step outside your circle of probabilities. You have new choices available! Perhaps too many. Now what will you do with that? Whatever choice you make, it will begin to narrow possible futures. Which is not something to fear, just acknowledge.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“But every choice we make entraps us in circles of narrowing probabilities, doesn’t it?”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“[You would still have problems, just not this particular set of them. Because the chaos is always out there, and the order is inside you.]”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Still, we must recognize that we have zero power to sustain our highs, which means we should take delight in them when they occur but remember that we have much power to lift ourselves out of the abyss. Sometimes that power is simply having faith that the trend line of our lives will climb higher once again.]”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“[Grief is never easy. But it gets softer around the edges, smoothed over like a river rock given time enough and water. It’s still a rock and it’s heavy and dangerous and capable of hurting you. Just not immediately to the touch, if that makes sense.]”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Popular culture’s embrace of science, too, tended to make people dismiss the mystical or magical almost by reflex.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“play is creative and vital to growth and a fairly big reason why we enjoy living at all.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“My level of “what the fuck” had, over the past few minutes, ramped up steadily. It had started out on one end of the scale, which was like a mildly bemused Seth Rogen half asleep in a hammock and wondering how his drink had disappeared because he’d forgotten that he drank it, and quickly accelerated to the other end, which was like a teenager watching their parents peel off their faces to reveal that the reason they acted like aliens sometimes was that they’d been aliens all along.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Iadmire dogs because they have life figured out. They are here to love and be loved, and that’s pretty much it. There are side jobs they attend to with gusto—eating, napping, barking at squirrels, maybe digging some holes in the yard—but loving others and being loved in return is the main gig, and they know it. They ignore most everything that gets us upset and remain laser-focused on why we’re all here. They’re role models, honestly, and they remind me of what’s important.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“was beginning to appreciate hobgoblins’ cultural imperative to act as a check on power.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Tae new friends while honoring the old; tae blazing new trails while remembering the paths of our youth; and tae knowing ourselves better and loving what we see.”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood

“Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz?”
― Kevin Hearne, Paper & Blood