#mist

You went up a girl and came down a woman. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#mistress-coyle #monsters-of-men #patrick-ness #viola #men

A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#beat #early-stories-and-other-writings #jack-kerouac #optimist #prose-poetry

The knowledge of Evil brings you near to God. ↗

— Abhijit Tripathi

#optimistic #motivational

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#books #ideas #movies #movies

The cycle of life only goes one direction, not even alchemy can change that" -Ed Elric ↗

— 荒川 弘 Hiromu Arakawa

#ed-elric #full-metal-alchemist #manga #change

I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. ↗

— William Golding

#optimist #pessimist #nature

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable. ↗

— Erwin Chargaff

#essays #language-literature #nature

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#fanatics #respect #respect

It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loves-ones #mistakes #self-reliance #trust #love

A little girl robbed you?" Tessa said. "Actually, she wasn’t a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name of Six-Fingered Nigel." "Easy mistake to make," Jem said. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#mistakes