Cute Karkat Quotes

#1. I thought it was who I was with or where I was that defined me in some way. I realize now that I decide who I am, no matter the company I keep or the place I am.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#2. Every Place where we feel safety is a Treasure.
Jan Jansen

Jan Jansen

#3. You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

Edwin Land

#4. It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

Margery Allingham

#5. The boy was standing alone as though the broken glass all around him were a shining sea and he were an island.

Cassandra Clare

#6. The only thing we can do is try to find people whose scars compliment our own.

Cora Carmack

#7. Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, 'Because it was he; because it was I.' There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. I think a man turns into a writer by editing his own texts.

Imre Kertesz

#10. Even in the face of massive competition, don't think about the competition. Literally don't think about them. Every time you're in a meeting and you're tempted to talk about a competitor, replace that thought with one about user feedback or surveys. Just think about the customer.

Mike McCue

#11. Whatever you say it is, it isn't.

Alfred Korzybski

#12. Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

#13. Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

Neil Gaiman

#14. Perhaps the most that can be said is that HCM had become a prisoner of his own creation, a fly in amber, unable in his state of declining influence to escape the inexorable logic of a system that sacrificed the fate of individuals to the "higher morality" of the master plan.

William J. Duiker