The Musings of Sardonicus

“A secret theater of speechless monologue and prevenient counsel, an invisible mansion of all moods, musings, and mysteries, an infinite resort of disappointments and discoveries.”

[thesardonicus]

“A sharp memory is double edged… A faultless memory weighs heavier and heavier until it’s a curse.”

- ‘Martian,’ from The Agency S2:E1 “Kick the Wasp’s Nest”

[daily-prompts]

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.

--Stephen King

[thesardonicus]

“The deeper I wade into other people’s madness the less I know myself.”

- Max Lieberman, Vienna Blood s1:e2

[thesardonicus]

“What have I taught you about steel? The strongest sword is a blend of steel - soft inside, hard outside - both pure and impure. You may be something shameful, but you may also be strong.”

Blue Eyed Samurai, E1 “Hammerscale”

[thesardonicus]

“Most purpose is more burden than glory.”

- Mobius, Loki S2:E6 “Glorious Purpose”

[thesardonicus]

“Ceci n’est pas une pipe. If it’s beautiful, does it matter?”

- Endeavor, S7:E1 Oracle

[thesardonicus]

“Love should be brave, don’t you think? Even if it doesn’t last.”

- Endeavour, S6:E3 ‘Confection’

[thesardonicus]

“We compare.

Humans are creatures of comparison.

Constantly deciding whether things are better or worse than other things. Eventually we make so many comparisons that our overloaded brains will accept anything - good or bad, right or wrong, not caring which is which.”

- Brandon, Gungrave S1:E2 Young Dogs

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.”

— Charles Bukowski

[radijs-dalfo]

[thesardonicus]

“Memories accumulate like leaves upon the forest floor. They are irregular and fragile. They crumble and break upon inspection. They turn to naught but soil the deeper you go.”

- “i sip a cup of wind”, the hod king by Josiah Bancroft pg 544

[thesardonicus]

“The source of all misery lies in our insistence that tomorrow be like today. But if it ever were, it would spell the end of everything.”

- “I sip a cup of wind”, the hod king by Josiah Bancroft

[thesardonicus]

“Sadly, the secret to longevity may very well be mediocrity.”

- Josiah Bancroft, the hod king

[thesardonicus]

“Hope is a dream. Despair,

A nightmare. Only the

Nocturnal struggle is real.”

- Josiah Bancroft, the hod king

[thesardonicus]

“Only people who go to bed early believe in happy endings. We night owls understand that happiness does not dwell in finales. It resides in anticipation, in revelry, and in worn out welcomes.

Endings are always sad.”

- Josiah Bancroft, the Hod king

[thesardonicus]

“Smiles are like candlelight.

They can warm even the bleakest room. But we would be wise not to forget:

Even the brightest candle hides a blackened wick.”

- Josiah Bancroft, the hod king

[thesardonicus]

“Sometimes a prisoner would rather stare at a bare wall than a barred window.”

- Josiah Bancroft, the hod king