#iman

When you are asked to love everybody indiscriminately, that is to love people without any standard, to love them regardless of whether they have any value or virtue, you are asked to love nobody. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#love #people #standards #value #virtue

for at blive accepteret, for at blive holdt af, for at opnå anerkendelse, lod jeg mig selv blive ham den onde. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#sleiman #men

Jeg følte mig fordømt og fortabt på forhånd, og jeg blev ond overfor psykologen. Jeg følte ikke, at det var konstruktivt. Hun skulle bare fortælle mig, hvor langt ude jeg var, og hvor forkert det var, alt det, jeg lavede. Hun kom med sådan nogle mærkelige psykologbilleder med farver, som man skulle fortolke. Hvad er det? Hvad ser du her? Hvad betyder det her? Det var, som om hun var ude på at gøre mig dummere. jeg blev stiktosset, for jeg var meget bevidst om, hvilken lortesituation jeg og mor og mine søskende var i. Den psykolog var den sidste, der skulle gøre mig dummere eller mindre værdig, end verden havde gjort mig, så midt i det hele hamrede jeg mine hænder ned i bordet og råbte: 'Nu stopper det.' Psykologen tabte besindelsen. 'Du bliver morder ligesom din far,' råbte hun. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#mindreværd #psykolog #sleiman #men

Uden gruppen har du ingen status, for alle andre i verden er imod dig. Jeg kan ikke give mine brødre rigdom, jeg kan ikke give dem guld, men jeg kan give dem mit ord, og hvis mit ord ikke længere tæller, så er jeg intet. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#loyalitet #sleiman #men

jo mere modstand, vi gjorde, jo mere vi viste vores foragt for det samfund, som vi følte os fremmedgjorte i, jo sejere var vi i hinandens øjne. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#modstand #samfund #sleiman #men

Men jeg var ligeglad med, hvad det skulle koste mig, for jeg følte, jeg gjorde det for gruppen. Jeg følte, jeg kæmpede for noget. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#kæmpe #sleiman #men

Jeg er opvokset et sted, der er opkaldt efter krat og grøft, og jeg vil aldrig kunne vaske det væk fra mine årer, fra mit blod, fra min sved. Jeg blev formet dér, jeg blev støbt dér, jeg blev ødelagt dér, men jeg blev også til menneske og mand dér. ↗

— Olav Hergel

#menneske #opvokset #sleiman #men

We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#readers #stories #write #growing-up

I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #magic-bleeds #praise #saiman #ilona-andrews

Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe in something, since he recognized that belief was the lifebelt that got most people through the choppy waters of Life. He'd have liked to believe in a supreme God, although he'd have preferred a half-hour's chat with Him before committing himself, to clear up one or two points. He'd sat in all sorts of churches, waiting for that single flash of blue light, and it hadn't come. And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard, self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. And every single political party had seemed to him equally dishonest. .... Then he'd tried believing in the Universe, which seemed sound enough until he'd innocently started reading new books with words like Chaos and Time and Quantum in the titles. He'd found that even the people whose job of work was, so to speak, the Universe, didn't really believe in it and were actually quite proud of not knowing what it really was or even if it could theoretically exist. To Newt's straightforward mind this was intolerable. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#neil-gaiman #religion #terry-pratchett #equality