Friday, December 31, 2021

The Year It Was

God doesn't want me and the devil isn't finished - The Blacklist


Goodbye, Good Luck, and Good Riddance - The Witcher, S2


I will let you see my weakness and fragility, but I will never have you see me give up - ReZero, S2


There is something about an underdog that really inspires the unexceptional - The Office



Thursday, August 26, 2021

K Town

"There are two kinds of fools. Those who do – And those who don't." - MLR

"The crazy have their own logic. And even a crazy world has its own rules." - Memories of the Alhambra 

"Some things are only understood when you go crazy together" - Memories of the Alhambra

"Count no man happy till his end is known" - Herodotus

"Compromise only ever produces average results" - Unknown

"He who would live must fight" - A.H.

"Instinct is the child of imperfect information. Surrendering to it is both liberating and terrifying in equal measure." - Unknown

"If one's different, one's bound to be lonely." - Brave New World

"If you're not upset when something is taken away, it couldn't have been yours from the start." - Unknown 

"Good children can become infinitely cruel through their own virtue" - Unknown

"When was the last time you were truly passionate about something. Something you wanted above all else. An all consuming need. No matter the cost. No matter the risk. You needed it. It is all you could think about. All you dreamt about." - Unknown

"One hand is not clapping" - Jedna Ruka Netleska

"Death makes brothers of us all" - Stephen A. Douglas

"I gave you a target. A villain. I gave your life purpose. You should be thanking me. I'm the best friend you've ever had." - The Originals

"A soul that's not tasted pain is incomplete" - Unknown

"And so he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" - Plutarch

"Heroes have a habit of becoming kings. It is for this reason that heroes should be killed before they get the opportunity." - Fate/Stay Night

"There are two things I've never known. Regret and impossibility." - The Misfit Of The Demon King Academy

"Humility is the worst form of conceit" - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Tuesday, February 04, 2020

Children

“It’s considered impolite to have more than four, greedy to go past five, and barbaric to have more than six.” – Speaker for the Dead

“I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions.” – Warbreaker

“…it was one thing to not want someone to die; it was another thing entirely to want to talk to them once they were alive.” – Magisterium: The Golden Tower

“Pride is a virtue in those who make it one.” – Skyward

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war.” – Skyward

“When you are broken and mourning your fall from grace, I will consume your shadow in my own, and laugh at your misery.” – Skyward

“…the hereditary prince has less cause and less necessity to offend; hence it happens that he will be more loved;” – The Prince

“…men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.” – The Prince

“There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must not be attacked, towns which must not be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed” – The Art of War

“With god-like knowledge came god-like irritation when doubted.” – Age of Swords: Book Two of The Legends of the First Empire

“Troublemakers in times of peace become heroes in times of trouble.” – Age of Swords: Book Two of The Legends of the First Empire

“It was terrifying to love someone who was forbidden to you. Terrifying to feel something you could never speak of, something that was horrible to almost everyone you knew, something that could destroy your life.” - Lord of Shadows

“Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind, and makes it fearful and degenerate; think therefore on revenge and cease to weep.” – Henry VI

“Wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety” – The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

“Ignorance is hardly unusual” – The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

“Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness” – The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

“Need. That word had strange effects on men. Some ran when you used it. Others grew nervous. Teft seemed to long for it.” – The Way of Kings: The Stormlight Archive Book One

“I do not understand objections to ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment. While a judge should be benevolent in purpose, his awards should cause the criminal to suffer, else there is no punishment—and pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival. Why should society refuse to use such a highly perfected survival mechanism?” – Starship Troopers

“Sometimes one must choose whether to be kind or honorable” – The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

“You lie so sweetly it’s almost a pleasure to be deceived by you.” – The Last Four Things

“…truth depends on where you start the story.” – The Last Four Things

“Duty is the death of love; love is the death of duty” – Game of Thrones: a Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1

“To age truly was to suffer the ultimate treason, that of one’s body against oneself.” – Words of Radiance: The Stormlight Archive Book Two

“…but in the breast of one of us at least had been born that which is ever oldest, yet ever new.” – John Carter

Monday, June 10, 2019

Buffy Revisited



"You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood...blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it".

Sunday, May 26, 2019

"I don't see why men shouldn't be as cruel as nature."

Monday, May 13, 2019

You have two options..

“What do you fear, lady?” [Aragorn] asked.
“A cage,” [Éowyn] said. “To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.” J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Wizard's 1st Rule

People are stupid. Given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.

Gotham

If it doesn't scare you a little, it's not worth doing
A good riddle reveals the asker. To solve it is to solve the mystery of the person posing it.
We could all go insane with just one bad day

Sunday, April 07, 2019

Ends

All endings are really just beginnings in disguise - Misha Collins

The man who fears losing has already lost - GoT, George R. R. Martin

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end - S. Meyer

Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The Originals Finale

We are bound forever to those with whom we share blood; and while we may not choose our family, that bond is our greatest strength - Elijah Mikaelson


without hope. without witness. without reward.

Only in darkness are we revealed. [...] Goodness is not goodness that seeks advantage. Good is good in the final hour, in the deepest pit, without hope, without witness, without reward. Virtue is only virtue in extremis. This is what *he* believes, and this is the reason above all I love him, my husband. My madman in a box. My Doctor.

Nardole [quoting River Song]

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Anne Bonny

"If you would have fought like a man you wouldn't have to die like a dog!"

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Lucifer

"Laugh like no one's listeningdance like you're standing on the corpses of your enemies'?".

Monday, October 17, 2016

femme fatale

You scare me... all great tragedies begin with a face like yours.. people want things which they should not want... and act in ways they would not otherwise... you.. are a very dangerous woman...

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

0

"Even if we do find ourselves on opposing sides one day, I will remain amiable to you. I will never forget the debt I have incurred this day. Even if we should become enemies, I shall respect you and show you favor until the end."
- Paraphrase of Crusch vow in Re: Zero