Quarkbeasts Quotes

#1. Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.

Jasper Fforde

#2. Public school felt like prison - cinderblock walls, fluorescent lights, metal lockers. It was so sterile and unstimulating.

Sufjan Stevens

#3. Sometimes things end worse for one side than the other. These 'injured parties' always seem to see themselves as victims of a moral outrage. They never feel simply rejected, but also abused. I've known many women who were great believers in the curative powers of indignation.

Lionel Shriver

#4. The only thing you need to be certain of is that you can be whatever you want yourself to be and this does not need to be defined by who you were.

Brenda J. Bentley

#5. It is a proof of philosophical mediocrity, today, to look for a philosophy.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#6. To put it simply, when you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil.

Frank Turek

#7. They said Lord Tywin loved gold most of all; he even shit gold,

George R R Martin

#8. I didn't feel like a big fat idiot anymore. And I didn't feel like a hard-ass motherfucking Amazonian queen. I felt fierce and humble and gathered up inside, like I was safe in this world too.

Cheryl Strayed

#9. Rule over your mind or ignorance will rule over it.
Rule over your heart or fear will rule over it.
Rule over your soul or evil will rule over it.
Rule over your life or others will rule over it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#10. I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized ...

James F. Cooper

#11. The world is drowning in weirdness and lies ... and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!

Inio Asano