Robert Jackson Bennett Quotes
Oh, propriety," says Mrs Benjamin. "We're always so concerned with propriety. Even in total madness, we still stick to our hierarchies and chains of command.
No one does. No one really knows how to be happy. You just get close, sometimes. That’s all I want – just to be close.
The gods are cruel not because they make us work. They are cruel because they allow us to hope.
We all reconstruct our past because we wish to see how our present came to be our present - do we not?
Just because the nightmare you expected comes true, it doesn't make it any less terrifying.
I will not see you, she tells the city, but I will remember you.
When I come back to you, if I come back to you, will I know you? Will you be the city of my memory? Or will you be a stranger?
They have forgotten that war is momentum.War is natural. And war makes one strong.
Envy the fire, for it is either going or not. Fires do not feel happy, sad, angry. They burn, or they do not burn.
I don't have the time or the energy to hate, " says Shara. "I only wish to understand. People are what they are.
One has no room for vengeance, ' says Shara, 'when the eyes of the world are watching. We must be judicious, and bloodless.
And we convict almost every case, she thinks, because the law requires us to prosecute them for living their way of life.
Here at the edges, in the cracks and at the crossroads, stepping from shadow to shadow in the river of darkness that runs through the heart of Wink, he feels much more at home.
...there is no better time to examine and understand one’s selfhood than when it is dissected and hurtling through darkness.
What a tremendous sin impatience is, he thinks. It blinds us to the moment before us, and it is only when that moment has passed that we look back, and see it was full of treasures.