LibrarianCarina’s Edited Quotes

Flesh is transitory, flesh is a prison, flesh is...an instrument. Flesh can be replaced. And flesh does as it's told.

Each thing called improvement seems blackened with crimes,
If it tears up one record of blissful old times.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Bene Gesserit

A man who lives a lie will soon enough be consumed by it.

I feel we're all trying to find a story, like treasure buried beneath our city, and all the feeble stories we live are patterned after that pristine story whose shape we almost know. Sometimes just after I wake or before I make love I'll think, This is the story, I'm living the story. But the world always rushes in with its clash and anguish.

An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.

Yes, dreams are the seam I mine, the soil I till, the timber I fell. I am a carpenter, sewing, planing, hammering my dreams, jointing them into structures sturdy enough to bear the weight of a body, the weight of flesh. I have my tools, my notebook, my fountain pen.

All religion begins with the cry "Help!"