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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 401751f | He said ..." A pause. He cleared his throat. "He said that pity was the only love I could hope for." | pity | R. Scott Bakker | |
| e5bae53 | Sometimes he would stare at the bare trees for so long, they would lose their radial dimensions and seem something flat, like blood smeared into the wrinkles about an old woman's eyes. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| bf582ac | He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 05240f8 | The arguments were assembled and were defeated. The reasons railed and railed. But love had no logic. No more than sleep. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 2505737 | Sleep, when deep enough, is indistinguishable from vigilance. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| bb4562d | It seemed poison had been poured into wonder's own decanter. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 564777c | The air became dry and still, like the gap in a dead man's mouth. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 3499912 | Suffer not a whore to live, for she maketh a pit of her womb. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| adf5ec5 | Fate was but one more world-born subterfuge, another lie men used to give meaning to their abject helplessness. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 38fc321 | The genius of most men lay in finding reasons after their actions. The heart was ever self-serving, especially when the beliefs served involved sacrifice. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 3f6ee79 | Nau-Cayuti's eyes gleamed like bared teeth in the gloom. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 38a0bbf | Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world. -- | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| c218091 | That's the horrible fact of sinners. We're indistinguishable from the righteous. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| d457aa7 | A cut scarred where a caress faded away. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| f239c0f | Maithanet carried a plague whose primary symptom was certainty. How the God could be equated with the absence of hesitation was something Achamian had never understood. After all, what was the God but the mystery that burdened them all? What was hesitation but a dwelling-within this mystery? Perhaps, | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 1deaad3 | Kings never lie. They demand the world be mistaken. --CONRIYAN PROVERB When | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| a4c0134 | Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute? | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 94c234f | Like life, games were governed by rules. But unlike life, games were utterly defined by those rules. The rules were the game, and if one played by different rules, then one simply played a different game. Since a fixed framework of rules determined the meaning of every move as a move, games possessed a clarity that made life seen like a drunken brawl by comparison. The proprieties were indubitable, the permutations secure; only the outcome .. | life rules | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 6469322 | Vulgar languages, especially when native, stand too close to the press of life. Their meanings are too easily warped by our insights and experiences. The sheer otherness of Gilcunya serves to insulate the semantics of sorcery from the inconstancies of our lives. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 1df30bc | They worshipped themselves as the measure of all significance, | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 923bbd8 | Where hopes burn bright," he said, "patience is quickly consumed." | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| f0c9f76 | Ignorance is trust. -- | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 21dc347 | If you find yourself taken unawares by someone you thought you knew, recall that the character revealed is as much your own as otherwise. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| d867469 | You realized those truths that cut against the interests of the powerful were called lies, and that those lies that served those interests were called truths. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 9f963c3 | We Dunyain, Cnaiur, are guides and trackers, students of the Logos, the Shortest Way. Of all the world, we alone have awakened from the dread slumber of custom. We alone." He drew Cnaiur's young hand to his lap. Thumbs probed the spaces between his calluses. How could bliss ache so? "Tell me, Chieftain-son, what do you desire before all things? What circumstance? Tell me, one who is awake, and I'll show you the trail you must follow." Cnai" | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 5916b23 | Everything we say to one another, we also say to souls absent. We continually speak to the speech that comes after our voice, forever prepare those who would listen. No truth spoken is true simply because words have consequences, because voices move souls and souls move voices, a great radiation. This is why we so readily admit to corpses what we dare not confess to the living. This why only the executioner can speak without care of consequ.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 4b0576c | Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying." --" | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| e38d0bb | few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 3cfca26 | But I've always believed," Kellhus continued, "that one must ride another man's horse for a day before criticizing." "To better understand him?" "No," the man replied with an eye-twinkling shrug. "Because then you're a day away and you have his horse . . ." Achamian" | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| de3697b | Hope is ever the greatest luxury of the helpless, the capacity to suppose knowledge that circumstances denied. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| b09ab79 | What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew? | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 9623dac | To resent is to brood in inaction, to pass through life acting in a manner indistinguishable from those who bear no grudges. But hatred hails from a wilder, far more violent tribe. Even when you cannot strike out, you strike nonetheless. Inward, if not outward, as if such things have direction. To hate, especially without recourse to vengeance, is to besiege yourself, to starve yourself to the point of eating your own, then to lay wreaths o.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 9e3f3f2 | But you do understand. Think, Leweth. If we're nothing more than our thoughts and passions, and if our thoughts and passions are nothing more than movements of our souls, then we are nothing more than those who move us. Who you once were, Leweth, ceased to exist the moment your wife died. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| fb99387 | To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so? --AJENCIS, THE EPISTEMOLOGIES | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 135cbba | Fools can be trusted precisely because they are fools. Their agendas rarely intersect with your own. | trust | R. Scott Bakker | |
| 0e1cf79 | Look unto others and ponder the sin and folly you find there. For their sin is your sin, and their folly is your folly. Seek ye the true reflecting pool? Look to the stranger you despise, not the friend you love. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 705d73e | The Dunyain," Kellhus said after a time, "have surrendered themselves to the Logos, to what you would call reason and intellect. We seek absolute awareness, the self-moving thought. The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes befor.. | R. Scott Bakker | ||
| 6c4048d | Such is the condition of a first-generation immigrant for whom everything is separated into now and then, into before the move and after. | Suki Kim | ||
| 856793b | As for unmarried women, I have no idea where they are buried. For a very long time, in Korea, no one talked about them.) | Suki Kim | ||
| 6001d32 | I reminded myself that I did not come from a place where mind games were a prerequisite for survival to such an extreme degree, a place where the slightest act of rebellion could have unimaginable consequences. Slowly, | Suki Kim | ||
| 2022377 | That was the inherent contradiction. This was a nation backed into a corner. They did not want to open up, and yet they had no choice but to move toward engagement if they wanted to survive. They had built the entire foundation of their country on isolationism and wanting to kill Americans and South Koreans, yet they needed to learn English and feed their children with foreign money. | Suki Kim | ||
| 535e681 | these lovely, lying children, I saw very clearly that there was no redemption here. | Suki Kim | ||
| cd6e771 | The stars are in your favor, darling, you can't be horrible. Nope, they won't let you. | self-love stars | Suki Kim | |
| e6cdf70 | There it is again, the mantra "if only." I am always made aware of the alternative universe where things turned out differently, in which lives were saved. I am used to the mantra. For immigrants, regret can become a way of life. Shouts" | Suki Kim |