m a r t h a .

put ur zodiac sign in the tags & if you like or dislike:

❛ books are my friends, my companions. they make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. ❜

❛ people have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn’t. ❜

❛ keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it’s actually quite common. the real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe. ❜

❛ let no one rule your mind or body. take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. ❜

❛ the sea is emotion incarnate. it loves, hates, and weeps. it defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. no matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t. ❜

❛ the greatest enemy is one that has nothing to lose. ❜

❛ it’s amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. as long as this books survives, his ideas live. ❜

❛ mmm….she’s doomed! you’re doomed! they’re all doomed! notice i didn’t specify what kind of doom, so no matter what happens, i predicted it. how very wise of me. ❜

❛ it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission. ❜

❛ into the sky to win or die. ❜

❛ respect the past; you never know how it may affect you. ❜

❛ that’s the spirit — one part brave, three parts fool. ❜

❛ i’ll fight when needed, revel when there’s an occasion, mourn when there is grief and die if my time comes… but i will not let anyone use me against my will. ❜

❛ i believe, _____, that you are full of love and that you are looking for one who will reciprocate your affection. no shame exists in that. ❜

❛ to have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being. ❜

❛ from now on you’re going to have to think. there’s a reason why we’re born with brains in our heads, not rocks. ❜

❛ i didn’t think i would ever meet a noble who wasn’t corrupt. now that i have, i find that i prefer them when they’re greedy bastards. ❜

❛ my heart died a while back. ❜

❛ what is the worth of anything we do? the worth is in the act. your worth halts when you surrender the will to change and experience life. ❜

❛ forgive me if i stare, i knew you were young, but even then i was expecting someone a little more, well, more. ❜

❛ let luck and happiness follow you, and may you be shielded from misfortune. ❜

❛ it’s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one. ❜

❛ live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn’t exist and never shall. there is only now. ❜

❛ wise? no, i simply learned to think. ❜

❛ those whom we most love are often the most alien to us. ❜

❛ life is both pain and pleasure. if this is the price you must pay for the hours you enjoy, is it too much? ❜

❛ avoid roasted cabbage, do not eat earwax, and look on the bright side of life! ❜

❛ you cannot miss what you have never had. ❜

❛ the songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living. ❜

❛ they may fight with us, but they don’t fight for us. ❜

❛ a good compromise leaves everyone angry. ❜

❛ when you can have anything you want by uttering a few words, the goal matters not, only the journey to it. ❜

❛ perhaps not one religion contains all of the truth of the world. Perhaps every religion contains fragments of the truth, and it is our responsibility to identify those fragments and piece them together. ❜

❛ have i ever told you how glad i am we’re not enemies? ❜

❛ the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. ❜

❛ the monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist. ❜

❛ death is part of who we are. it guides us. it shapes us. it drives us to madness. can you still be human if you have no mortal end? ❜

❛ you would be amazed how many magicians have died after being bitten by mad rabbits. it’s far more common than you might think. ❜

❛ i’ve never been helpless, i just have powerful enemies. ❜

❛ love can be a terrible curse, _____. it can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person’s behavior. ❜

❛ when someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. ❜

❛ whatever you do, protect those you care for. without them, life is more miserable than you can imagine. ❜

❛ are not all religions strange to those who stand outside of them? ❜

❛ do not become so attached to any one belief than you cannot see past it to another possibility. ❜

❛ the trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters. ❜

❛ everyone wants to eat, but no one wants to be eaten. ❜

❛ fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right. ❜

❛ it’s impossible to go through life unscathed. nor should you want to. by the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments. ❜

she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.