The Wire Intro Quotes & Sayings

Alter strategies and tactics, but never your principles. — John Kessel

Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy. — Francis Beaumont

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. — Learned Hand

When you look in the mirror, remember that who you see looking back at you is a piece of your highest self, the Divine. — Alice Hocker

All my books are under J.Z. Murdock (with periods after the initials). Sorry for the confusion. — J.Z. Murdock

I wrote a letter to you when I was in the capital. So stupid, to put it all in writing. Every thing I'd done. The information I passed to Tensen. The way I worked against the empire. What I felt. My father read it. He gave it to the emperor." She was weeping. "And I know, I know that it hurt him, that I broke something, that he felt it break. Maybe I wasn't me anymore, to him. Do you understand? Not his daughter. Not anyone he knew. Just a lying stranger. But how could he? Why couldn't he love me most? Or enough. Why couldn't he love me enough to choose me over his rules? — Marie Rutkoski

When I woke the next morning in my room at White's Motel, I showered and stood naked in front of the mirror, watching myself solemnly brush my teeth. I tried to feel something like excitement but came up only with a morose unease. Every now and then I could see myself-truly see myself-and a sentence would come to me, thundering like a god into my head, and as I saw myself then in front of that tarnished mirror what came was 'the woman with the hole in her heart'. That was me. — Cheryl Strayed