Prekomerno O Tecenje Quotes & Sayings

In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you won't find a tale for Cinderella, one for Snow White, one for Rapunzel. Instead, a peculiar cast of characters recurs over and over, in nearly every story, performing different acts and suffering different sorrows, but remaining the same. Ivan the Fool. Yelena the Bright. Baba Yaga. Vasilisa the Brave. Koschei the Deathless. — Catherynne M Valente

i used to think
i was broken

because
i never once

spent my
daydreams

plucking
swollen pomegranates

from
someone else's tree.

- then i learned that society is broken, not me. — Amanda Lovelace

Everywhere, there was imbalance, and the surest path to profit was to be between something valuable and someone who valued it. — James S.A. Corey

Understanding proximate cause is also like understanding your mother: It can take years and then, just when you think you have her figured out, she surprises you. — Peter F. Lake

The nuances and organic characteristics of a character become second nature if I'm doing my job well. — Rob Paulsen

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending. — Colson Whitehead

True love can exist only in freedom from possession. — Shekhar Kapur

For such a worldly, surly bastard, Bas had always been incredibly innocent. Always seen the best in people. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Thieves, drunkards, lunatics, wastrels, and whores we might all be, but there ain't a coward among us. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I can't tell you what to do, Ishmael. I've tried to understand what it's been like for you - having gone to war, having lost your arm, not having married or had children. I've tried to make sense of it all, believe me, I have - how it must feel to be you. But I must confess that, no matter how I try, I can't really understand you. There are other boys, after all, who went to war and came back home and pushed on with their lives. They found girls and married and had children and raised families despite whatever was behind them. But you - you went numb, Ishmael. And you've stayed numb all these years. — David Guterson

Even more than dreams our lies reveal our secret wishes. — Marty Rubin

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun. — Josephine Baker

Until the advent of modern physics it was generally thought that all knowledge of the world could be obtained through direct observation, that things are what they seem, as perceived through our senses. But the spectacular success of modern physics, which is based upon concepts such as Feynman's that clash with everyday experience, has shown that that is not the case. The naive view of reality therefore is not compatible with modern physics. — Stephen Hawking

Sleep? What's that? A new type of casserole? — Maria V. Snyder

Our dreams define our sacred destiny. — Lailah Gifty Akita