"Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed."

-- Edgar Rice Burroughs

#Hate Quotes #Heart Quotes #Steel Quotes

“You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.”

Source : Lisa Gardner (2010). “Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel”, p.87, Bantam
“As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years when I was reading endless series. But in the end I became totally fed-up with all these sub-Tolkien rip-offs because they all end up doing the same old things and there's no rigour to it.”

Source : "A kind of magic". Interview with Michelle Pauli, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2010.
“I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.”
“There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.”

Source : Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.457, Macmillan
“Still humping the American Dream”
“If you always have a crutch, you don't learn anything.”
“Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.”

Source : Samuel Prout, Rudolph Ackermann (1838). “Hints on Light and Shadow, Composition, Etc: As Applicable to Landscape Painting”, p.7
“Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2012). “The White-Luck Warrior: Book Two”, p.294, The Overlook Press

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