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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 49848df | In the pattern of the curdling cheese she divined the future, the complex patterns revealing truth to her far more clearly than my wands ever could. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 4a014f3 | It comes down to the fact that he serves a different value system than any human one. I pointed out that Gaia was interested in protecting the vitality and variety of life on the whole planet. Broadly speaking that's difficult to argue, because unless you're falling prey to this predator or that, that basic value is pure and good and beneficial to all concerned, if ye take the long and wide view. But humans, I taught him, rarely take that v.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7a3a80f | Greta rolls her eyes. "That's easy. The tax code protects the rich, and lots of voting laws protect a white majority, and arbitration clauses protect corporations from getting sued when they rip people off, and we could go on all day." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0c83f00 | there has to be a way of thinking that will allow us to see nonlethal differences and celebrate them rather than point at them and judge them unworthy. For we seem to be ever running toward dystopias rather than the other way. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b6a6162 | Why aren't you on the coast? he said, making it sound like an accusation. Because I have new mulch for the garden to help us all grow. He snorted in disbelief. Doubtful. You are a dormant seed. I'd been prepared to allow him a thorny word or two because he lost his nephew at the Seeking,but my sympathy evaporated at such a stark insult. I told him he had no nuts in his shell and swung up beyond his voice. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| aff011c | Kevin Hearne is a bad man, and you should read his books.) | Bridget McGovern | ||
| 0623d43 | But in doing so--moving forward, in Greta's mind--he's still dealing with the past. It's always strung out behind us, innit, attached to our arses like a roll of toilet paper we trail out of the bathroom, pointing the way to the giant shite we just took. It doesn't matter if we flushed it down: Everyone still knows what we did there. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ff3990c | I do not see a path I can walk on the earth that is not strewn with beauty and horror in equal measure. My road ahead is poetry and blood, and after today, I know I'm prepared to walk it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 3df7dbf | Eternity is a long time to spend doing nothing, after all. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1f6bf6c | Yes, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7dc65dd | Bacon is the way and the truth. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 390d057 | You said he was shot by his own clone troopers?" "That was what his recording said. We, of course, had no way to confirm it. Asking the local garrison of troopers if someone may have shot a Rodian Jedi Knight offplanet would attract the wrong sort of attention. But it's stunning in its implications, isn't it? Looked at in that light, it might have been the Jedi who were betrayed, not the Emperor." Not" | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 77f9444 | Whoa! Really? That means practically my whole life is an adventure! I never realized!> | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0252fc4 | Lolcat iz new happeh wai 2 talk," I explained to them. "U doan haz 2 be kitteh 2 speek it." | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 3f2b9a4 | What? You didn't even let me finish my first sentence!" " | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 09281d5 | A Buddhist wishes to point out that desires are what prevent people from achieving happiness, that materialism is the cause of discord. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a7ba582 | When you cannot reason with people, you have to try scaring them. If that doesn't work, then you either run or you kill them. Or set your lawyers on them. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a79b778 | The mourning of a loved one never ends at the funeral. It comes back every so often like a stage performer eager for a curtain call and expects you to be loud about it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| a92e107 | The future always waits until the present to reveal its plans. But the past can clarify our goals for us sometimes, help us say good-bye to those we haven't let go, even realize that we need to change. That is the magic of stories. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b241d8b | Peace isn't as easy as everyone wants you to think it is. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 5ab899a | The guy lacks a soul--did you see him? He probably thinks cauliflower is delicious! | Kevin Hearne | ||
| fbc595a | Once horrors take hold in the mind, they tend to clutch and linger, and it takes waves and waves of laughter to wash them away. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 0f01281 | the nice bit about living in urban America is that people tend to either ignore eccentrics or move to the suburbs to escape them. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c7dc760 | Don't mess with me, his boots said, for I am wearing the skin of the world's deadliest serpent. Or maybe they said, Behold, I'm an arrogant ass. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 13d1f98 | I think--and it is something I have thought about for a while--that there is a measure of heroism in providing safe harbor. Not actively saving anyone so much as providing the space for them to save themselves. It takes a lot of effort and patience and kindness and a resignation that while you may be thanked, you will never be celebrated for it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| b3509fc | A man with perspective! That's rare. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| db5be94 | It was safe and everything smelled good and tasted delicious, and those things are the fundamental building blocks of a great day. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 3c85532 | And perfect contentment, that sublime moment when you're at peak anticipation for something and you know you'll get it soon. I often think that moment is better in some ways than getting the thing itself: it's the awareness of your own joy at being alive | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f5809d8 | It's more difficult to make new friends as you grow older, | Kevin Hearne | ||
| d082ae4 | We read all those stale histories in school, you know, and I don't doubt that they scrubbed away a whole lot of blood and pain. Countless tragedies happening to families like ours, all reduced to a sentence or three, while pages were devoted to what this ruler ate or what that rich person wore. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7fc2b54 | It was a statement that begged to be corrected, a favorite stratagem of mine to keep people talking. Say something a person knows to be wrong and very few will be able to contain the inner pedant who simply must teach you how very wrong you are. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 1ff8633 | It's going to be fine as long as you don't get killed. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| ab2e1a8 | Although I'm sure that the immortality of the spirit was a comforting thought, it was a worldview that to my own admittedly biased eyes placed little value on life. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| f2f2a33 | I'm just thinking about how our causes have trouble seeing their effects until it's too late to do anything but mourn them. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 23c8b5a | When your only view is one of such peace and beauty, you can believe the happy lie that the rest of the world is just so. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| c34ec43 | Kevin Hearne | |||
| 117a58b | I think my instinctive rejection of judgment comes from meeting too many people who say on the one hand that their chosen deity shall judge us all but then they judge me anyway, rather than leaving it up to the deity they profess to believe in and trust. That's using religion to cudgel people into conformity, and it grinds my gears. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| bf3cdda | Brewers are craftsmen to be envied, and Goibhniu is one of the finest. His daily work is easily tested and tasted, and unlike, say, one of those people who greet you in a soulless big box store, he can point to the produce of his labor and say, "There. I made that." These days he has a taproom next to his smithy (for he is also an extremely accomplished blacksmith), and he is often found behind the bar, pulling pints for people and grinning.. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 214df6d | Depression is a place that you have a key but you don't look for it. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 83112ae | Thank the Gods Below for paranoia. I classified it as a survival skill rather than a neurotic condition. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 325ae21 | When in a fight for your life, you never, ever fight fairly. Honor and sportsmanship are wonderful in games that don't matter, but it's the honorable guys who always die in real battles. | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 7b892fb | You can't put your fist through a man's wood and expect him to forgive and | Kevin Hearne | ||
| 425a367 | If there is anything I can warn you about when it comes to expanding your lifespan, it's that boredom is your enemy. If you get too bored with the routine of it, the endless eating, and sleeping, and shitting and working so that you can eat, sleep and shit some more you'll do something stupid in an attempt to entertain yourself. And you'll die. Or you'll slip into depression, make the last shift and live out your days as an animal. Or you'l.. | dogs-loyalty | Kevin Hearne | |
| 191e673 | feck a handsome chicken if I wasn't right | Kevin Hearne |