Cadartifex Quotes & Sayings

The ancients believed in Fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable. — Jeanette Winterson

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. — Brene Brown

Rey'azikeen."
He'd offered me one last glance and winked a microsecond before he was gone. — Darynda Jones

Here's a habit I never thought I'd develop: I gravitate to anything online that's marked 'most popular' or 'most e-mailed.' And I hate myself a little bit every time I do. — Susan Orlean

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. — Kazuo Ishiguro

When you believe in yourself with a passion then success can be spontaneous. — Stephen Richards

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go — Marcus Aurelius

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. — Henry David Thoreau

Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. — Zora Neale Hurston

I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad. — Donna Summer

Her gaze darted back to the computer screen. THIS IS YOUR CALL TO ACTION. If she posted this, it needed to be real. She needed people to believe Spartan could come back. They needed to trust that he'd made it out of the ship. It couldn't just be fangirl to fangirl, writing Starveil AU's that never really happened. This would be the guerrilla warfare of character ships. The fans would have to reweave the details they had into a new explanation of those last seconds of film. They'd take no prisoners, leave no wounded fans behind. But, as in any war, that meant the intel behind the revolution had to stay secret for as long as possible.
Fandom had to believe. — Danika Stone

We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected. — Pope Francis

Ask God for the grace to live for Him and continue to live in Him. Right now, surrender it all to Him. — T. B. Joshua

Envy, as distasteful as it is, has seeped into my mind on rare occasions, and those I've envied, although few in number, have only been those that live a life of leisure with peace of mind and time to do such wonderful things as read. — Donna Lynn Hope

But the rest of Jace's mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams. It was one thing to push it to this point. It is another to let go forever. Because he knows Clary, and if she goes now, she will not ever come back. — Cassandra Clare