Gaubert Sonata Quotes

#1. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

Janet Morris

#2. You promised you wouldn't tell her," she says, pointing at me. "What happened to protecting her?"
"I changed my mind," I say.
Tris laughs, harshly,"That's what you told him, that he would be protecting me? That's a pretty skillful manipulation. Well done.

Veronica Roth

#3. I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings ... but it's impossible to do both.

Sam Hunt

#4. Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I'm to trade my life for Rose's, I'd appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair.

Franny Billingsley

#5. The angels are so enamored of the language that is spoken in heaven that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#7. All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Carl Jung

#8. Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.

Max Weber

#10. I'd rather be right than consistent.

Winston Churchill

#11. There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

Martin Luther

#12. If Wayne isn't in here somewhere already," Wax said, "I'll eat your handbag and try to burn it for Allomantic power.

Brandon Sanderson