R. Rose Quotes

The irony of life is that those who wear masks often tell us more truths than those with open faces.

the moment you don't feel like praying, get on your knees. And the moment you don't feel like reading your bible, you'd better get that Book open.

Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does.

I won't be affected by your charm nor I will trap you into marriage. I've been there once, never again.- Kristine

The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.

Suck on this, Edward.

When it comes to love, Princess, rules blur, and traditions fade,

Having declared a passion for his wildness, she had sought from the beginning to tame him.

They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.

Hope is a strange commodity. It is an opiate. We swear we have relinquished it and, lo, here comes a day when, all unannounced, our enslavement to it returns.

I hope all you wish for comes to you, And you become who you're hoping to be.I know you will prosper in all you do, So promise you'll remember me.

Give me a meaningful love or a beautiful death!

I spit into the face of Time That has transfigured me.

Peace of mind comes when we exercise our right to be honest, especially with ourselves.

Fear prophets, Adso, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.

If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission.

El diablo no es el príncipe de la materia, el diablo es la arrogancia del espíritu, la fe sin sonrisa, la verdad jamás tocada por la duda.

Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

Knowledge can be powerful. But it can only be beautiful if there is more to it. If it is guided by something greater than the simple desire to enhance the potency of the mind.

Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it

Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive.

I'd spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone i wasn't, that i had no idea who i was any more.

Wasting time changes the nature of time. And the heart is stilled.

She moved like water, graceful and soft and lovely. Every part of me wanted to stick out my foot and trip her, just to see her stumble.

Werewolves never joke about age, ” he said solemnly.“Why not?”Connor shrugged, a smile teasing his lips. “I dunno, ” he finally admitted. “I just thought it sounded good.

Quiet, ” she hissed at me, her voice shockingly aggressive for such a small person. “Otherwise, I’ll shut you up myself.

I was going to become a human sand burger.

It was as if she was a wannabe Persian cat who had just tasted sour milk.

Clearly, this was another thing I needed to add to the: ‘repetitive cycle of things that were constantly happening in my life’ list, which currently contained fainting and my ability to find trouble.

Of course they were eaten, ” he retorted, his eyes flashing in cold humour. “Trolls generally aren’t exactly renowned for being vegetarians.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Cakes are like books: There are new ones you want to read and old favorites you want to reread.

It’s tough, but if you want to survive, sometimes you have to do the seemingly impossible.

After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.

Jeese, I thought, fear choking me. I was being targeted by a ‘tangoed’ psychopath!

You know that I love you quite a lot --But sometimes... not. Sometimes not.I don't know why.I guess IJust hate you sometimes, Because sometimes I even hate myself, And she loves you.

Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. Their eyes found mine like a witching wand seeking water.

There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.

They called it the Great War, but that implied worthiness and grandeur, not violence and helplessness and the utter waste and devastation our country, our city, our people endured.

Dreams have a way of persisting. They just don't come true until you DO what you CAN.

When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence. They can't ever be voted out of existence.

Freedom is a rare gift... Quite easily taken for granted and even more easily taken away.

Please wake me when I'm freeI cannot bear captivity4 I would rather be stricken blindThan 2 live without expression of mind

It is precisely democracy which is destroying the American political structure, American law, and the American economy.

He must have been delightful, " she said, "when he was alive!

He looked like a young Crusader on a tomb. That was Phyllis's first impression of Allan Harrington.

God, I felt as if I had just been flattened by ‘Elmer’ the elephant.