K.A. Last Quotes
I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?
You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.
Hestia shook her head. "I am here because when all else fails, when all the other mighty gods have gone off to war, I am all that's left. Home. Hearth. I am the last Olympian
It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.
If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
We have no government and no laws, if by law is meant a stereotyped convention supported by force, and not to be altered without the aid of cumbersome machinery.
The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -
I have found it is surprisingly difficult to remain sad when a cat is doing its level best to sandpaper one's cheeks.
These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind
It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.
Know yourselves- be infertile and let the earth be silent after ye.
Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.
The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.
Not all powers are spectacular." Hestia looked at me. "Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding.
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.
Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.
The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.
Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.
Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.
It's hard to enjoy practical jokes when your whole life feels like one.
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.
Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
Bow down, I am the emperor of dreams.
Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.
Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.
When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
We are not perfect. We make mistakes. We screw up but then we forgive and move forward.
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.