"I think the most tortured place in hell should be reserved not for traitors, but... for cowards. The weakest, most spineless losers. Because it seems to me that traitors? At least they made a choice. But cowards? They just run around biting their fingernails, totally afraid to do anything. Which is totally worse."

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Source : Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.160, Delacorte Press

Lauren Kate

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The Boy should watch where heâ€™s going,â€ she said. â€œRachel should not manifest in doorways,â€ I replied.”
“I have been fortunate to have been brought up on a diet of adventure and privileged to take part in number of challenges. My training in the Royal Marines taught me to be professional at all times, even in dangerous and frightening circumstances. But fear can be dispelled by knowledge and preparation. Life hangs on a very thin thread and the cancer of time is complacency. If you are going to do something, do it now. Tomorrow is too late.”
“Ruins provide the incentive for restoration, and for a return to origins. There has to be an interim of death or rejection before there can be renewal and reform.”
“I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.”
“German people are essentially pacifists. Many still remember the experience of World War II. And they may not have seen Saddam Hussein as evil a person as a lot of other people have.”
“You cannot stop the unstoppable”
“I love an arcade. I love a boardwalk game. But I also love a rollercoaster. Though I think the rollercoaster love comes from the fact that it took a really long time for me to reach the height requirement, so I promised myself very early on that when I reach that, I will not take it for granted.”

Source : "Talking About Carnivals with Melissa Rauch". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. March 21, 2013.
“Can we really conquer chaos so easily? If that were so, I should be able to prune the pandemonium of my own soul into something neat and tidy rather than this maze of wants and needs and misgivings that has me forever feeling as if I cannot fit into the landscape of things.”

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