Quotes About Legacy

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other.

The present could never be untethered from the past, you couldn't understand one without the other. "I heard," I said, and turned

You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done, because now we've lost. But folk were born and lived and knew friendship and music in this city, ugly as it is, and all across this land that we fought for. Some grew old, and others were less lucky. Many bore children and raised them, and had the pleasure of making them, too, and we gave them that for as long as we could. Who has ever done more, my friend?

I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world.

She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.

It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented.

Once upon a time, there had been gods. Now there were only children going about in their dead parents' undergarments.

The gods had been dead for fifteen years, after all, but their hate had lingered, and ruled in their stead.

You can't atone for taking one life by saving another. What good does that do the dead?" "The dead," she said. "And we have plenty of dead between us, but the way we act, you'd think they were corpses hanging on to our ankles, rather than souls freed to the elements.

Live bitter, so the crows will have no taste for you when you're dead.

A person could be driven mad by hate. It was a force as destructive as any Mesarthim gift, and harder to end than a god. The gods had been dead for fifteen years, after all, but their hate had lingered, and ruled in their stead.

I'm going to be the scariest grandma in the world," she muttered, grouchy and kind of looking forward to it.

Los nombres pueden perderse u olvidarse. No había nadie que lo supiera mejor que Lazlo Strange. Anteriormente tuvo otro nombre, pero aquel nombre murió como mueren las canciones cuando ya no queda nadie que las cante.

as if hate were an atavism just waiting to resurface.

Si dovrebbe morire orgogliosamente quando non è più possibile vivere orgogliosamente.

Quelle sono le nostre madri». La sua voce era aspra. «Noi siamo spade, così ci dicono, e le spade non hanno madre né padre, ma io ne ho avuta una un tempo, e non riesco nemmeno a ricordarne il nome.»

I've killed more stars than anyone will ever see

Death is not the end it sometimes seems.

The books may be immortal, but we are not.

Apenas se cuide. Os livros podem ser imortais, mas nós não somos.

No. Lo único que me queda es la muerte. Uno debería morir con dignidad, cuando ya no es posible vivir con dignidad.

I wanted, I told her, to lie under the stars and smell different breezes. I wanted to drink different waters, feel different heats. Stand with my comrades atop the ruin of old ideas. Plant my boot and steel my eye and not run. I said all this to my dead mother, spoke it down through the dirt: there was a conflagration to come; I wanted to lend it my spark.

He would gather up the ages and plant and reap what he and his father had sown. All the while I would watch. From my chair. From my window. From my garden. Watch until my eyes died at their roots and I fell cold silent in my skirts and could watch no more.

Billy Graham was for the hereafter. I'm for the here and now.