Banks Quotes

If perception is limited by experience and knowledge, what deems my actions “correct” or my thoughts as moral?

Even if it's the end of the world, you're still my world.

Live BOLDLY! ......because no one ever told you healing is a life long process.

Nice shack

A woman should always know her place, and it's exactly wherever she wants to be.

I like the idea of feeling small. Sometimes life can seem bigger than you, you know? But knowing you're less than a speck in the whole scheme of things takes the pressure off, sort of.

Funny how a little sleep, a little makeup, and a lot of contemplating can make you feel like a different person - a stronger version of yourself.

Morning tide makes a great companion when you don't want to be around people. It soothes and comforts and doesn't ask for anything.

We both know dad was my parental trash can, the fatherly receptacle on whom I dumped my emotions.

There is nothing that can defeat you if it does not first capture your mind.

Out of the fire, passion is born.

The greatest blessings are birthed out of adversity.

The trick, he supposed, was never to lose sight of the theoretical possibility while not for a moment taking the idea remotely seriously.

But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other

Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.

You have some balls."Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...

... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.

So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.

You embody the strength of 10, 000 moons and your life will be a testament of it. Ase

People try to use your past against you not realizing you were using it to propel you.

Why are futuristic movies so primitive, violent and ugly despite having sophisticated technology? Humanity could have an incredible future if we manage the enormous challenges we face.

Welcome to the future, she thought, surveying all this wordage and tat. All our tragedies and triumphs, our lives and deaths, our shames and joys are just stuffing for your emptiness.

One believed what one was told to believe, what it made sense to believe. Unless one was a foreigner, of course, or a philosopher.

As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

Spending all your energy on one opinion is like confining yourself to living in a box, and most people in a box aren't living.

[M]y determined and strenuous endeavours to take in absolutely nothing of what I had regarded as entirely the most irrelevant part of my schooling had patently not met with total success

The very people you trusted most could become like strangers in their longing...

If it helps you. I forgive you. But i have learned in recent weekd that seeking forgiveness from others is meaningless unless you can forgive yourself.

I have seen people who find that grief gives them something they never had before, and no matter how terrible and real their loss they choose to hug that awfulness to them rather than push it away.

[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.

I have woken up inside one of my own memories. I am really here, yet I know I am not.

You can't write a story until you've felt it. Breathed it in. Walked with your characters. Talked with them. That's why you come here. To live your story.

Never underestimate the distance that one simple act of kindness can carry you.

When you are a long way from where you think you belong, you will attach yourself to people you would otherwise ignore or even dislike.

Things mean pretty much what we want them to mean.

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

Q: When did you realize you wanted to be a w

the ignobility of thought and action that desperation born of indigence produces.

Pull himself together? This was a man who looked permanently cemented together.

With an advanced worldview we will know and experience that the whole universe is conscious and infinitely connected and we are connected to all the cosmos and life

I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

Figs are delicious with soft cheese and ham, Toast is quite scrumptious with butter and jam, Eggs are improved by parsley and salt, But milkshakes are best with strawberries and malt.

All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself.

If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong.

The Culture gives us so much, but in fact it’s only taking things away from us, lobotimizings everybody in it, taking away their choices, their potential for being really good or even slightly bad.

Sometimes you gotta let go. It's hard to walk away from something you love, really hard. But there are times when it's the only sensible thing to do.

We are a race prone to monsters, she thought, and when we produce one we worship it.