Quotes from books on my shelf
❝ Every experience is unrepeatable. ❞
❝ You’re the sort of person who, on principle, no longer expects anything of anything. ❞
❝ You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst. ❞
❝ A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. ❞
❝ I survived, but it’s not a happy ending. ❞
❝ War is hell, but that’s not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love. War is nasty; war is fun. War is thrilling; war is drudgery. War makes you a man; war makes you dead. ❞
❝ You can’t fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can’t make them undead. ❞
❝ You know you’re about to die. And it’s not a movie and you aren’t a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait. ❞
❝ Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. ❞
❝ How crazy it was that people who were so incredibly alive could get so incredibly dead ❞
❝ Sometimes the bravest thing in the world is to sit through the night and feel the cold in your bones. ❞
❝ The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. ❞
❝ Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die. ❞
❝ You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age? ❞
❝ Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away. ❞
❝ We should care for each other more than we care for ideas, or else we will end up killing each other. ❞
❝ Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous. ❞
❝ Symmetry is only a property of dead things. ❞
❝ I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly. ❞
❝ I am I, and I wish I weren’t. ❞
❝ Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ❞
❝ To define is to limit. ❞
❝ There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. ❞
❝ Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. ❞
❝ Some things are more precious because they don’t last long. ❞
❝ One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing. ❞
❝ Before all hope died I used to have this stupid dream that shit could be saved. ❞
❝ If you didn’t grow up like I did then you don’t know, and if you don’t know it’s probably better you don’t judge. ❞
❝ If you ask me I don’t think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That’s enough. ❞
❝ Dude, you don’t want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten. ❞
❝ It’s never the changes we want that change everything. ❞
❝ The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes. ❞
❝ It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you. ❞
❝ When reason fails, the devil helps! ❞
❝ Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. ❞
❝ If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. ❞
❝ A bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it. ❞
❝ I fell in love with you last winter. I didn’t mean to, but it happened. ❞
❝ The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. ❞