Quotes from M.C.A. Hogarth

Children remind us to promise ourselves to the future. They remind us why the future is worth the promise.

Why invite sorrow? Life is long enough to contain enough without asking for more.

Because I begin from the premise that people are too complex for simple explanations. It is the habit of simplifying people that leads so many astray in their quest for understanding. You can't learn a person you've decided you already understand.

Love will break us all: there are no exceptions. So why try to avoid it? There is no use in an unlived life. Best to let it in. Regret nothing, and when the time comes: shatter, shatter into glorious pieces.   --Ereseya Observations from the End of a Life

So long as there is breath in me, I will serve life—serve life—serve life.

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones.

Acts are the language of love. That's what the Goddess teaches us. Words might do for thoughts. But love needs to be communicated in actions.

I am telling you that medicine is ninety percent indigestion, lifestyle adjustments and head colds and ten percent heroic measures

Sarel. It is not humility to assume every responsibility is yours to bear. It is not wise. And it is not just, nor kind. You must let go of your need to feel that everything that befalls you is yours to mend, for at the root of that assumption is a great flaw: the belief that you can control everything. Continue to nourish that flaw and it will grow into the fault that will shatter you as surely as the sword poorly made.

In his heart, the joy of living fought with the hurt of it until he could no longer separate them, and the effort made him understand that they were not him. That he was apart from them, evaluating them. The

The morning passed, lazy hours strolling after their preceding fellows with all the urgency of a cat sunning itself in summer;

it is an act of bravery not to die in the circumstances in which you have been living. Your very patience was the face of resistance! And what you resisted was the desire of those around you to negate you! Well, you have not been negated. From almost nothing, you have nevertheless derived the strength to go on... and that strength has seen you here, to a place where you have been fulfilled. Where you have known happiness.

There was nothing demure about the air off the ocean.

Clear thoughts," he said. "Clear sight. Kind words. Right acts.

Captain—" Reese's head came into abrupt, unpleasant contact with

She never wants to do most of the things she forces herself to do by deciding them when she's upset. It's just that she feels trapped into following through on her promises. Even the stupid ones.

Fair face does not equate to hallowed heart.

Love is terrible sometimes, isn't it?" "People are terrible," River said. "Everything else is an excuse.

If you have no philosophical ground for your work, you have no place to stand from which to make decisions. Ethical ones, moral ones. You won't know the boundaries of your duty, and what you owe your gods—assuming you have any—the world, and your fellow men and women.

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So he's got an attitude problem," Alysha said. "I get that. But he'll never stop having an attitude problem if we don't give him the breathing room to stop reacting to years of frustration and bitterness. I got him to come. Now it's up to all of us to make sure he keeps coming.

Learning 'yes' and 'no' gave them at least twenty minutes' worth of entertainment because mood-shading them could turn 'yes' into 'no, you bastard' and 'no' into 'maybe,' 'I'm only fake-saying no,' and variations of 'hells, no' that felt completely different from saying 'hells no' in any other language.

He had innocents to protect. That was part of his duty.

Subtlety is one of the few forms of entertainment allowed me," the Divine said, grinning.