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If you really want to achieve your goals, you have to be prepared to make enemies along the way. Not everyone can deal with that reality.
k.b. // alhaitham - genshin
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The belief that others think they are right doesn't mean that they are.
Steven Redhead, Life Is Simply A Game
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Understand the game properly before you gear up to break the rules
Anamika Mishra
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Life is a game of chance. You ought to play the game.
Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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'Why let us hope? . . . Just tell me that! Why set us a task that was too hard? Does He love suffering that much, that He likes watching us play His games and lose?'
Lev Grossman, from The Bright Sword
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Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
George R.R. Martin
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It sounded like a dream; it tasted like damnation.
— Nora Sakavic, The Foxhole Court
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Suzanne Collins, Chapter 27 of Catching Fire / Sabrina Imbler, "My Grandmother and the Sturgeon," How Far the Light Reaches
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“She loved the sea. She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of the horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above. It made her feel small, but free as well.”― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
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The scent of earth receiving water, slaking its thirst in great gulps and releasing that green scent of freshness, coolness.
Anita Desai, Games at Twilight
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I should probably start worshipping her now and save us both some time.
Waiting Game - G. A. Mazurke
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I have plenty of fire myself. What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses.
Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
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Life is a game. We must keep playing the game. The more we play, the more we will understand the game of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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Before need, before love, came trust.
The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes (Suzanne Collins)
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The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.
Ram Dass
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