"Go safely. Go safely, she thought to him. what a silly, empty thing it was to say to anyone, anywhere."

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Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.210, Penguin

Kristin Cashore

#Silly Quotes #Empty Quotes

“The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.”
“If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.”
“When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.”
“The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. Â This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. Â The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. Â It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.”
“Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.”
“My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.”
“You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.”
“It's always interesting to me to tell stories that come from difficult political climates.”

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