#first quote post

[myeyeshurt2much]

i dont wanna draw today -me 2026

[shoshele]

You must think I'm pretty and useless. Maybe I am. I just like things pretty. Is that so bad, to want people to enjoy themselves? Only when you have the Gift, you can't just go to parties and keep house. They expect you to study, and to do something in life. Arram--he always wanted me to learn more spells and be famous. I don't want to be famous! What I do is useful. And I like using my Gift for cooking and baking. Great power hasn't brought the mages I know happiness or peace of mind.

In which Tamora Pierce reminds me why I love her Immortals Quartet books (i.e. the ones about Daine), even if they are "for teens". 

[jesse9000]

“When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Grandfather's and when Father gave it to me he said I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury