"You shouldn't shoot people," said Lord Caterham in a tone of mild remonstrance. "You shouldn't really. I daresay some of them richly deserve it - but all the same it will lead to trouble."
- Agatha Christie, The Seven Dials Mystery
"She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her."
- George Orwell, 1984
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
"We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."
- George Orwell, 1984
"Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again."
- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
- Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
“New Year’s Day… now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.”
-Mark Twain
Happy New Year! May the best of 2025 be the worst of 2026!
“You confuse not speaking with not listening.”
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
"People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of."
Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
- Stephen King, Storm of the Century
"You were always smarter than I," said Hansel, kissing her cheek.
"I hope you will remember that," said Gretel, smiling. "Boys think of treasure, but girls think of the important things in life."
- Stephen King, Hansel and Gretel
"No great loss."
- Stephen King, The Stand
“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
We'll miss you Red. <3
I've learned over the years that people think they want absolution. But that's not what they really need to hear.
They need to hear "even if it's your fault, I will love you anyway."
- Carissa Broadbent, The Fallen & The Kiss of Dusk
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.
- Michael Ende, The Neverending Story
Re-released on my bday? Sounds like a happy birthday to me!
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You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen and the rivers are poison
You cannot eat money, oh no
- AURORA, The Seed
"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side.
Or you don't."
- Stephen King, The Stand
“May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.”
- Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla
"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
- Declaration of Independence
www.archives.gov/founding-doc...
“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
- Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works...
...Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
Jungle for sure. It's so calm and peaceful, and I imagine it smells like warm wet dirt ❤️
Living the nerd life!
Absolute beautiful pins, I have both and they are a fantastic add to my nerd bag where I love showing off all my favorite things!
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams - RATEOTU
LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
www.paulreverehouse.org/longfellows-...
You are special. This doesn't mean you're better or above anyone else, but everyone has their own value.
- Alison Botha
"The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness."
- Gregory Maguire, Wicked