#d

He found himself wanting to write poetry about how her blue eyes were like starlight and her hair like night, because "night" and "starlight" rhymed, but he had a feeling the poem wouldn't turn out that well... ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#poetry-quotes

ʺThe contractʹs null and void, by the way.ʺ ↗

— Richelle Mead

#adrian-ivashkov

You can't fix stupid ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#stupid #stupid-people #stupidity #stupidity-of-man #r-alan-woods

Me siento responsable por ese muchacho. Si él nunca encuentra la felicidad, sentiré que le he fallado. Si no puede tener a la chica que ama, sentiré que le he fallado. Si no puedo conservar a su parabatai para él, sentiré que le he fallado. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#will-herondale #magnus-bane

When Hitler declared war on the United States, he was betting that German soldiers, raised up in the Hitler Youth, would always out fight American soldiers, brought up in the Boy Scouts. He lost that bet. The Boy Scouts had been taught how to figure their way out of their own problems. ↗

— Stephen E. Ambrose

#resourcefulness #united-states

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#united-states

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#politics #united-states #united-states

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way. [Interview, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2009] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#creation #creative-process #driving-forces #hardship #pain

From nothing comes everything. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#everything #literature #literature-quotes #nothing #poetry

Deceit dispels the boredom of the Absolute. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#boredom #deceit #dejan-stojanovic #dispelling #literature