Hershel Hennesy > Hershel's Quotes

“What's that Einstein quote about expecting different results from the same person? I shouldn't feel bad - I'm here, aren't I, I'm not the parent who didn't even text. Or the one who locked themselves in their bedroom half of Christmas. Talking like this, it's become clear that we are the main parts. This has all been about us, the sisters. I hadn't realised. I tell my mouth not to share these thoughts and Dana offers me another cigarette.”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo: 'Intense, also BRILLIANT, funny and forensically astute.' Marian Keyes

“One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end. ”
― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

“And at midnight there came an apparition in hell. A handsome dark-eyed man with a dagger-like beard, in a tailcoat, stepped onto the veranda and cast a regal glance over his domain. They used to say, the mystics used to say, that there was a time when the handsome man wore not a tailcoat but a wide leather belt with pistol butts sticking out from it, and his raven hair was tied with scarlet silk, and under his command a brig sailed the Caribbean under a black death flag with a skull and crossbones.
But no, no! The seductive mystics are lying, there are no Caribbean Seas in the world, no desperate freebooters to sail them, no corvette chases after them, no cannon smoke drifts across the waves. There is nothing, and there was nothing! There is that sickly linden over there, there is the cast-iron fence, and the boulevard beyond it…And the ice is melting in the bowl, and at the next table you see someone’s bloodshot, bovine eyes, and you’re afraid, afraid…Oh, gods, my gods, poison, bring me poison!...”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

“I liked the metaphor the first time I heard it: “Inside every child is an ‘emotional tank’ waiting to be filled with love. When a child really feels loved, he will develop normally, but when the love tank is empty, the child will misbehave.”
― Gary Chapman, The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

“Part of what existence means to me is knowing the difference between what I am now and what I was then. It is being capable of looking after myself intellectually as well as financially. It is being able to tell when I am being wronged and by whom. It means being awake to protect myself and the ones I love. It means being a part of the world community, and being alert to which part it is that I have joined, and knowing how to change to another part if that part does not suit me. To know is to exist: to exist is to be involved, to move about, to see the world with my own eyes. This, at least, the Movement has given me.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Prose

“The world doesn't make sense until you force it to.”
― Frank Miller

“From the start, I told you! We should’a just handled this ourselves. You should’ve handled it the way my daddy would’ve.” She paused, looking at Tom, and lowered her voice, “Just like Crockett.”
― J.K. Franko, The Trial of Joe Harlan Junior

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Maybe not to us, but to humans. And Sonia… She is something entirely different now, and we have no idea how much power she controls or what she means to do with it.”
― Tricia Copeland, To Be a Fae Queen

“My bad, Colonel. What do you need?”
“I want to report a homicide.”
I raised an eyebrow. “Homicide? Did you kill someone?”
His eyes narrowed at my poor attempt at levity.
“Me. I’m the one who was killed.”
“Colonel, Sir, with all due respect, I really don’t have time for this kind of humor.”
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― Behcet Kaya, Deception: A Jack Ludefance Novel

“Death is the ultimate test of faith.”
― Gabriel F.W. Koch, Death Leaves a Shadow

“The past was nothing to her; offered no lesson which she was willing to heed. The future was a mystery which she never attempted to penetrate. The present alone was significant, was hers, to torture her as it was doing then with the biting which her impassioned, newly awakened being demanded.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“Any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principal which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being evil. ”
― Dan Simmons

“We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham

“Na to je rekla da su ona i njezina obitelj kršćani. Rekla je da je jednom, za vrijeme bogoslužja pod vedrim nebom, dobila Duha Svetoga i da je spašena. Njezini mama i tata, praktički svaki put za vrijeme bogoslužja dobiju Duha Svetoga i onda govore nekim nepoznatim jezikom. Ako si kršćanin, tvrdila je, to te čini sretnim. A ona i njezina obitelj najsretniji su za vrijeme bogoslužja pod vedrim nebom, jer ih ispuni Duh Sveti i sve to. Rekla je da ću ja otići u pakao jer nisam bio spašen.
Odmah sam vidio da je ona kršćanka, jer dok je pričala polizala je moju lizalicu praktički do drške. Uzeo sam natrag to što je bilo preostalo.”
― Forrest Carter, Malo drvo

“Да обичаш всички, както обичаш себе си, а за това трябва първо да си пълен със себе си, за да обичаш истински.”
― Fynn, Mister God, This is Anna