Burren Quotes & Sayings

The Clave keeps wanting to hear what happened when we fought Sebastian at the Burren. We've all had to give accounts, like, fifty times. How Jace absorbed the heavenly fire from Glorious. Descriptions of the Dark shadowhunters, the Infernal cup, the weapons they used, the runes that were on them. What we were wearing, what Sebastian was wearing, what everyone was wearing ... like phone sex but boring — Cassandra Clare

In our obsessive wish to arrive, we often forget the most important thing, which is the journey. — Paulo Coelho

You're an immortal, divine being. A little god, and yet, you toil like a slave. Isn't that hilarious? — Stefan Emunds

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat, heart-beat, which make the tune to which the sun rolls, and the globule of blood and the sap of the trees. — Charles Ives

The more I love, the more I see the magic of love. — Debasish Mridha

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go. — Charles Bukowski

To be in the Burren is to be reminded that physical matter is simultaneously indestructible and entirely transmutable: that it can swap states drastically, from vegetable to mineral or from liquid to solid. To attempt to hold these to contradictory ideas, of permanence and mutability, in the brain at the same time is usefully difficult, for it makes the individual feel at once valuable and superfluous. You become aware of yourself as constituted of nothing more than endlessly convertible matter - but also of always being perpetuated in some form. Such knowledge grants us comfortless immortality: an understanding that our bodies belong to a limitless cycle of dispersal and reconstruction. — Robert Macfarlane

An ability to believe in things that weren't true was a powerful tool. — Stephen Baxter

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul. — Aleksandar Hemon

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him. — D.H. Lawrence

It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way. — Hannah Hurnard