I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change – most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink – are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become. Kathe Koja
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
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Patrick Ness
No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
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Chuck Palahniuk
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
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Bell Hooks
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
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Ralph Ellison
You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By Kathe Koja
I knew that change was coming, the way you know things you can't see, by feeling them; by instinct. The way the bees know everything they know.
I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change – most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin,...
'Under the Poppy' is the love story of Istvan and Rupert, lovers and friends from childhood, who've been parted by jealousy - and a secret betrayal by Istvan's sister, Decca, who also loves Rupert, with whom she runs the brothel called Under the Poppy, where...
