#la

Someday , Tamani told himself. Someday it'll be me. ↗

— Aprilynne Pike

#illusion

Oh, I am fortune's fool! ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fate #fortune #luck #shakespeare

I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#sorrow

Yes," Jace said, "I regret having disobeyed you." No! Clary thought, but her heart sank. Was he giving up, did he think it was the only way to save her and Simon? Valentine's face softened. "Jonathan-" "Especially," Jace said, "since I plan to do it again. Right now. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #valentine-morgenstern #regret

Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#equality

There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#italian-medieval-poetry #nostalgia #À-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu #sorrow

I realized by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born. ↗

— Charlie Parker

#chords #could #harmonic #heard #high

I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value. ↗

— Pentti Linkola

#misanthropy #overpopulation #equality

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right? ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#law #morality #ethics

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals? ↗

— Stephen King

#equality