What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded.' The firing squad.'' That's not the whole truth. Try again.'' Insatiability, ' he said with some bitterness.' That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more, ' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes.' The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.'' Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common? . Angela Carter
Name one hero who was happy." I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back." You...
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Madeline Miller
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
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Nikolai Gogol
Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
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Veronica Roth
To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don't listen to their words, but watch their actions.
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Amit Kalantri
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
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Peter Kreeft
More Quotes By Angela Carter
Sometimes it's not always straightforward, but it's not always confusing either. You just have to respect a person's decisions without disrespecting them.
Sometimes I really can't express how much I feel, but I can tell for a fact that some past years have been a victorious rollercoaster ride with God in it. Some days colourful, some days black and white, some days faith bigger than a mustard...
What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is that person who's worth it and deserves nothing less than the best, I hope that you see beyond the pain, I hope that...
What do you see when you look in the mirror? I hope it goes beyond beauty. I hope what you see is that person who's worth it and deserves nothing less than the best, I hope that you see beyond the pain, I hope that...
Dear lover, pull my ears and not my legs for it is better to be cautioned than to be lied to.
