Nothing. Quotes

Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.

IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

But history does repeat itself

From barren brown stems to glistening leaf-buds

Silence is the invisibility of talking. I'd take half an argument over half a silence any day. And I'd take peace and quiet over a full-blown argument any other day, unless it's Tuesday.

Nothing is perfect

Some people have a blissful heart

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been holding on to more dearly than Him.

When Jarod Kintz gets married, I want to wear his grandpa to the ceremony, telling everyone we're Siamese twins from the future-past. Meow.

Anger does not solve anything

The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.

Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.

Life is a long failure of understanding, a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

To fall in love twice, with the same person, you need to grow another heart. That's all I do in my secret underground laboratory at night...

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

There are certain things we owe our little sisters.

My grandpa, unlike Jarod Kintz, was an Elder. Now that he's dead and gone, he's a ghost French wizard. And no one knows what French wizards are good at…

No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way.

An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues

Concentration is like a leash for our mind, keeping it under control and obedient and not giving it too much room to move as it wishes.

If "Manners maketh man, " as someone saidThen he's the hero of the dayIt takes a man to suffer ignorance and smileBe yourself, no matter what they

Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years

As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it

Why is it… that temptations of the world seem to be stronger than romance? Is it because of biological imperative of reproduction

Nothing risqué

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

Children are like water

Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.

People are most vociferously opposed to those forces they have to resist more fiercely within themselves.

It’s sad to see how many relationships start as just a distraction from boredom, a cover up so they don’t have to ever deal with the true pain below

The collector walks with blinders on

My religion is Get Over It.

The more you believe, the more you'll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway.

We must stand firm between two kinds of madness: the belief that we can do anything

Let me propose that if your beliefs or convictions matter more to you than people—if they require you to act as though you were a worse person than you are—you may have lost perspective.

If the praise of man elates me and his blame depresses me

If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.

I know that throughout my life I have struggled to forgive my father. Now, as I get older, I wish most of all that he had been able to find a way to forgive himself.

I didn't look back. Sometimes, not looking back is the only mercy the world has left to show.

I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night

I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.