The Book Of Lost Things
- Adilla Meytiaramembuat kutipan5 tahun yang lalu
Cats, meanwhile, were very good at pretending people didn’t exist at all when it suited them, but that was another matter entirely. - asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang lalu
“Foul thing,” he cried. “After all that I did, after all that you made me do, you betrayed me at the last.”
“I made you do nothing, Jonathan,” replied the Crooked Man. “You did it because you wanted to. No one can make you do evil. You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.” - asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluWar merely gives people an excuse to indulge themselves further, to murder with impunity. There were wars before it, and there will be wars after it, and in between people will still fight one another and hurt one another and maim one another and betray one another, because that is what they have always done.
- asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluSo you left behind one war, only to find yourself in the midst of another
- asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluWe are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal). Those who were given that knowledge found that they could not sleep or eat or enjoy any of the pleasures life had to offer them, so tormented were they by what they had seen. Their lives became a kind of living death, devoid of joy, and all that was left to them was fear and sadness, so that when at last the end came they were almost grateful for it.
- asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluAs a child you saw things only in black and white, good and bad, what gave you pleasure and what brought you pain. Now you see everything in shades of gray. Even the care of your own kingdom is beyond you, so unwilling are you to decide what is right and wrong or even to admit that you can tell the difference. You knew what you were agreeing to on the day that we made our bargain. Regrets have clouded your memory, and now you seek to blame me for your own weaknesses. Mind your tongue, old man, or else I will be forced to remind you of the power that I still wield over you
- asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluit was that capacity for harm that frightened him more than anything else.
- asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluThey were false hopes, dreams without foundation
- asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluYou are brave, and you are both stronger than you look and stronger than you believe yourself to be
- asasiprmembuat kutipan6 tahun yang laluRemember, though, that nothing comes without cost
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