"The seraph looked up, and pain sliced through my head as our eyes met, almost blinding me. "I honor you. You can do something I cannot," it said softly. "For all I am and all I have been, you are human. You are loved for your inventiveness, both good and bad. I can kill, but you can create. You can even create...an end," it said wistfully. "That's something I will never be able to do. Accept this. Create."

-- Kim Harrison

#Pain Quotes #Eye Quotes #Honor Quotes

“I'm not invincible. I'm no Serena Williams.”
“Not in rewards, but in the strength to strive, the blessing lies.”

Source : John Townsend Trowbridge (1881). “A Home Idyl: And Other Poems”
“What I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes a society in which moral concern for others will be possible? Part of that I think are manners and ritual. We tried to get rid of manners, we tried to abolish manners in the '60s. Manners were very, very old-fashioned and un-cool. And of course we didn't realise that manners are the building blocks of proper moral relationships between people.”
“By the inquiry 'Who am I?'. The thought 'who am I?' will destroy all other thoughts, and like the stick used for stirring the burning pyre, it will itself in the end get destroyed. Then, there will arise Self-realization.”
“There are only two emotions - Fear and Love. Go with Love.”
“It's not so much about how good a player you are, its how cool you are.”
“Itâ€™s not about trying to change the world, itâ€™s about trying to not be changed by it”
“There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefitted.”

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