R.S.A. > R.S.A.'s Quotes

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
― Elizabeth Warren

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

“I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.”
― John Cheever

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“He wanted to be inside, away from the possibility of social contact. He was not entirely comfortable out here. Getting too close to the everyday dance of the world overloaded his acute senses in a way that he could not explain to anyone. So he did not try. He simply kept to himself and lived his life in a way that would ease his discomfort as much as possible. He no longer cared what others thought of his ways; the few friends he had understood him. Everything else was unimportant. Except his job. The one thing he could excel at just by being himself.”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“Death is the breath between one Life and the Next.
—Message of the Will
Book of the Seven Holies
Ancient Dak Scripture”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“They will believe the truth shall set them free.
They will be wrong.
Sometimes, there is no stronger cage.
—Wisdom: The Fifth of the Seven Holies
Ancient Dak Scripture”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Lex Talionis

“The web disappeared into the shadows, finer than hair and twisted into ropes of all sizes, some thick as her finger. Every strand grew from the furred belly of the spider.

“Anchorite Nadine,” it would whisper in the voice of her long-dead sister. “Anchorite Nadine. Have you anything interesting to report?”

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

“Louisa stares at Sister Nadine over her shoulder as her mother takes her hand and walks away. Her gaze is strange. Knowing. There is the slightest glow to her; a spark centered above her head. Nadine cannot quite see its shape, but she knows it is important. New.

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

“Violence begets violence and every Harvest delivers more death to the Harvested.

- The Anchorite Wakes, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Clarkesworld Magazine, Issue 143, August 2018

“When the moon rises above us and I see its glowing,
colour-shifting beauty – see its true splendour for the
first time between swaying palm leaves – I am distracted.

It’s then that he reaches down and pulls my heart
from my chest.

- Fire in His Eyes, Blood on His Teeth”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Devil's Ways

“I like the spill of blood, of gold, of rich cloths and glittering jewels. They are bright and alive in an otherwise drab world. I stab and shoot and laugh and fuck and feel nothing but euphoria.

I have no fears and no hopes. No needs but him.

- Fire in His Eyes, Blood on His Teeth”
― R.S.A. Garcia, Devil's Ways

“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”
― Konstantin Josef Jireček

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost

“Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”
But I say unto you, they are inseparable.
Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet