Blackfyre Sigil Quotes

#1. To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear

Marilynne Robinson

#2. My uncle wasted a great deal of breath in giving him directions, but worthy Hans took not the slightest notice of his words.

Jules Verne

#3. Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic.

Paul Valery

#4. I learned that every choice has an outcome and I learned that holding on to bitterness is a poison that eats away at you from the inside.

Mia Sheridan

#5. When someone deeply listens to you, your barefeet are on the earth, and a beloved land that seemed distant, is now at home within you.

John Fox

#6. For example, it is only by work we extract gold from the soil. It takes work to discover the oil that is already deposited in the ground. It is work that turns a hill of coal into karats of diamond.

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.

Michael Franti

#8. Gone. and it was completely. Everyone I'd every known, every place I'd ever been.
My Mother.
My father.
Rebecca.
Out of site.
Out of mind.

Robert J. Sawyer

#9. He looked around, saw himself mirrored in that man walking back with his rifle. And suddenly, it seemed possible to him that we might love ourselves the most when we are suffering and seen to suffer. The pursuits of men seemed only the more shocking, if this were true.

Karen Fisher

#10. It's better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

Nic Pizzolatto

#11. My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Mary Oliver

#12. Because you didn't and someone did, and that has made all the difference! So either have the courage to ask her out prior, or have the decency to watch her with someone else.

Sarvesh Jain