Cratic Diablo Quotes & Sayings

In contrast to modern art, which causes displeasure-modern art, by definition, hurts. In this precise sense, modern art is sublime: it causes pleasure-in-pain, it produces its effect through its own failure, insofar as it refers to the impossible Things. — Slavoj Zizek

I buried her like a pagan. I put deer bones in with her, for her journey; a blanket, for warmth; flowers, cedar fronds, stones from places we'd been, grouse feathers, a tidbit of raw venison hamburger, and a swatch of my own hair. A headstone, a footstone. I planted an aspen tree above the headstone, to give her shade, and to someday provide leaf-music in the breeze. It took a long time before I was worth a damn again. How to measure the eleven years of magic she brought to us? How, now, to say thank you? Too late, as usual, for these sorts of things. — Rick Bass

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life. — Brian Pinkerton

I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness. — Paul Weller

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. — Lord Chesterfield

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to. — Michelle Moran

And like I've said before, sometimes its better to do bad things for the right reasons than good things for the wrong ones. Right? — Alexander Gordon Smith

If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all. — Ronald Reagan

We are synonyms but not the same. — Tahereh Mafi

Love will be stronger and last longer if there are impediments to its gratification. — W. Somerset Maugham

This isn't a book. This isn't a paranormal fantasy or whatever the hell it is you read. There is no set plot or clear idea of where any of this is going. The enemies aren't obvious. There are no guaranteed happy endings. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. — Albert Camus

If you really want something bad enough, if you're really interested in something enough, you know, you just keep working on it. — Brian Kobilka

He had melted away, and she felt his absence like a space cut from the air. — Laini Taylor

It was not like the old days and they both knew it. They were weighed down by the awareness of their failed relationship, of the wasted years, of the feelings that were no more, of the shared life that had unravelled. They were like weary receivers winding up a bankruptcy; all that remained was to tie up the loose ends and settle the final claims. (Black Skies) — Arnaldur Indridason