mouth: six favorite quotes.
1. ‘There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
2. ‘All the hardest, coldest people you meet were once as soft as water. And that’s the tragedy of living.’
- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
3. ‘Regardless of what the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can’t have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it’s a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that’s worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.’
- Tana French, The Likeness
4. ‘So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.’
- George R.R. Martin, A Dance With Dragons
5. ‘But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur; he felt cold mists dance. He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands. In the fairy’s song the earth recognized the names by which it called itself.’
- Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
6. ‘Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all. God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition. Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.’
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods
