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“...you'll find that being a friend is to like a person for who they are, even the parts you don't understand. You don't have to understand, or do the same, or live their lives for them. If you truly care for them, then you want them to be who they are; that was why you liked them in the first place.”
Source : Terry Goodkind (2015). “Blood of the Fold”, p.465, RosettaBooks
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“I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.”
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“Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.”
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“It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?†she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. “Is there silver? Gems?†She stabbed twice more. “Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?†She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. “Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?”
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“It's always been difficult for me to speak and express my innermost thoughts. I prefer to write. When I sit down and write, words grow very docile, they come and feed out of my hand like little birds, and I can do almost what I want with them; whereas when I try to marshal them in open air, they fly away from me.”
Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016. 
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“Come back again, old heart! Ah me! Methinks in those thy coward fears There might, perchance, a courage be, That fails in these the manlier years; Courage to let the courage sink, Itself a coward base to think, Rather than not for heavenly light Wait on to show the truly right.”
Source : Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas Burbidge (1849). “Ambarvalia: Poems”, p.14
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“In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.”
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“Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.”
Source : Kevin Ashton (2015). “How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery”, p.67, Random House
