Claraluna Quotes & Sayings

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire. — Hanif Kureishi

You had heard of a caterpillar that couldn't turn into a butterfly. And you would like to examine how it would feel to be denied such a beautiful thing. You would like to know how it feels for the caterpillar to watch other caterpillars transform while all the time knowing he would never have that opportunity. — Cecelia Ahern

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads. — H.L. Mencken

Horror is not a genre, it is an emotion. It is a progressive form of fiction, one that evolves to meet the fears and anxieties of its times. — Douglas E. Winter

Why do you hurt me? What more do you want?" she asked, tears shining in her eyes.
"Power over you, little one," he said, smiling. "What does any man want but that? It is something in the blood of every one of us. We would all be a tyrant if we could. — Conn Iggulden

We celebrate success by giving credit to others. To be successful, you need to share and give power freely. And you need to celebrate their successes. — Wade Dokken

The good must be clearly good but not wholly clear. If it is wholly clear it is too easy to reject.
What is wanted is an oversimplification, a reduction of a multitude of possibilities to only two. But if the recommended path were utterly devoid of mystery, it would cease to fascinate men ... .There would be nothing left to discuss and interpret, to lecture and write about, to admire and merely think about.
The world exacts a price for calling teachers wise: it keeps discussing the paths they recommend, but few men follow them. The wise give men endless opportunities to discuss what is good. — Walter Kaufmann

Self-realization is the last game on earth worth playing. — Frederick Lenz

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around. — Ernest Hemingway,

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. — Mason Cooley

The best way to learn about books, ... is to spend time with them, talk about them, defend them. — Charlie Lovett