E. P. Thompson Quotes

Money will make a leader turn a blind eye to injustice.

In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of understanding it. It is called an 'aesthetic aha.

We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.

Destiny doesn't always come when it's convenient or when you think it should. It comes when you're ready, whether you know it or not.

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.

Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.

If I had to marry someone, it wouldn't be a bossy little gal with a tongue like barbed-wire and a mind about as narrow.

She told herself there had been nothing outside, nothing peering in at her from the darkness. Nothing at all.

Light, show yourself pure and strong, Save a man from evil's throng, Take a form, small and white, Give this girl the strength to fight.

Losing someone close to you is more haunting than a life of cursed solitude.~The Moon Master

Life’s short when compared to eternity, but eternity is only worth it because of life.

To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.

I should feel energized and powerful, invulnerable and potent, but all I feel is lost.

Letting go seems like the most powerful thing I could do.And so I do.I just let it all go.And it feels glorious.

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.

My body is on fire and he is the oxygen keeping it going.

And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

We were like wanderers in a desert, blessed with a rare downpour, but unable to store the rain.

One moment of true happiness was worth all the moments of pain. (Jessica)

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

Don’t trust anybody else—no matter how close you are to them.” (Eric)

I wanted to protect her, and, if I couldn’t do that, I’d at least be there for her. (Eric)

My insanity begged for a distraction. (Eric)

I wasn’t in the mood for a fight, but fights weren’t always conveniently scheduled. (Jessica)

Everything seemed so unreal—so supernatural—and I had to remind myself that is was. We weren’t human. We never were. (Jessica)

I’d prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt." (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Identity was everything, but it seemed I never had one. (Jessica)

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric)

Shadows could be anywhere in blackness. (Eric)

Her kiss could kill us, and my consent signed our death certificates, selfishly and without control. (Eric)

I wanted to survive—not for my kind, but for trust, for friendship, for another being. (Eric)

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric)

...it’s my job to lead you to success, and, if you fail, it’s because I failed, not you.’” (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)

Anyone could be anybody. (Eric)

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)

I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica

Listen: Common sense doesn't mean what it used to mean."-Matthias Chalmers, STAIRWAY2 HEAVEN

What fueled this hatred? Society.

I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Someone who doesn’t know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

My life wasn’t horrible, but I didn’t see any passionate reason to love it.

It's not the best life in the world, but it's all I know.

Fate was tricky like that. It consumed us when we thought we were free, and it freed us when we thought we were captured.

Chaos within destiny. It was the definition of our love.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

I was falling in love with her, and she was falling in love with me. It was fated, decided before any of us were born, and I hated it as much as I loved it. I could barely stand it. (Eric)

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.