Exit Unicorns Quotes

“You think it is a mistake, Fräulein, that the part of the clock that allows us to read the time are called hands? It is our attempt to grasp and hold that which cannot be caught.” During”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“Love is irrevocable, it cannot be taken back. Stars may fall from the sky, men may walk on the moon and toast may burn in the morning but love will always exist in the moment it is given. Irrevocably.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“Don’t expect life to be fair an’, Paddy, for God’s sake, don’t ever give all yer love to just one thing.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“hatred, while a great motivator, tends to get in the way of any genuine progress”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“Above her head, silky soft and smelling of heartbreak, the moon was fading, its pearls ground to powder and he knew with a terrible certainty that he was never going to be able to find unicorns on it again.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“It is said that man is the only beast that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. Here today we know how things ought to be, we can see the future, it may be a distant light but we can see it.” He paused for breath as the morning air rippled past his face, chill with the season and thought he felt, in passing, the warmth of his father’s hand upon his head.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“opening the tackle box took out antiseptic and applying it liberally to the cloth, put it back on Pat’s head.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“From the time I was born, I’ve been surrounded by people who had to be strong everyday just to survive. They had to be hard in mind an’ in heart to get from one year to the next. An’ ye’ve seen my back, I’ve known hatred, come to understand it well an’ promised myself I’d never be vulnerable to it again. But I’d no idea that love could make ye ten times more open to destruction. I’ve had men beat me until I was certain there was only a minute or two left between me an’ the grave an’ yet the fists an’ the knives never hurt the way it does when I think of losin’ ye.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“She rested her face against the glass of the window, wondering why no one ever saw fit to prepare you for age, to tell you that the emotions would still be young, that the heart would still hurt, that the soul would long to flee the aging bones and skin and that that would be the damnation of age, unable to escape the prison of traitorous flesh. Unable to quit yearning for that which was no longer possible.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“There was no trial and error as far as the government was concerned there was only the trial of error upon error.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“When the law makers are the law breakers, there is no law,”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“The older generation scratched their heads, long comfortable in misery or ignorance now, they’d lost their need to rock the boat. Rocking the boat got you drowned, plain and simple. Unionists out and out accused the emergent civil rights movement of merely being Republican foot soldiers in camouflage. The government dismissed them as rabble-rousers, agitators seeking their fifteen minutes of fame. The students with the wisdom of youth ignored all imprecations and sallied forth under ban, under the blow of rock and baton, coming up repeatedly against the hard, ugly face of hatred. They were the flame that would be put to the tinder of sectarianism and old hatreds, caught in the headiness of that year, of that dying, burning decade, they did not see that regardless of who sets the fire all who touch it will be burned and bear the scars for it.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“He believed in a system, a world if ye will where a man is not judged by the cut of his clothes or the color of his skin nor the size of his wallet. A world where truth is not to be feared, he believed,” Pat took a deep breath and looked directly into the eyes of his Muse, “that all men should live free and that freedom is worth any price.”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns

“Let no man dare, when I am dead, to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have engaged in any cause but that of my country’s liberty and independence...”
― Cindy Brandner, Exit Unicorns