the birb's favorite quotes
some collect postage stamps, some collect phone cards, I like to collect quotes~
the collection is a bit small, since I lost all my old ones at some point, but I'll rebuild it in no time! 😤
The Quotes Themselves
Let me not die without fame, without a fight, But let me do some great deed to be heard by those to come.
-- Hector ("The Iliad", Homer)
...whatever you tell yourself, you are not happy as you are. Content, maybe, but that is not the same thing.
-- ??? ("Blood in the Water", Megan Derr)
The idiot seemed to forget that he deserved to be looked after and protected and cared for just as much as everyone else.
-- ??? ("The Only Option", Megan Derr)
Chociaż kiedyś Cornel opowiadał mi taką historię o chłopaku, któremu przytrafiały się różne, szalone przygody. Okazało się, że leżał w śpiączce i to wszystko mu się śniło. Opowieść miała szczęśliwe zakończenie, bo w końcu się obudził, ale zawsze budziło to we mnie wątpliwości. No bo przecież w swoich snach przeżył tak dużo. Wiódł cudowne, bohaterskie życie i miał wielu przyjaciół. Na jego miejscu, chyba nie byłbym zadowolony z powrotu do rzeczywistości.
-- ??? ("Krąg", Silencio)
"Kill me," he rasped at Clear Sky. "Kill me and live with the memory. Then tell the stars that you won."
-- Gray Wing ("Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #3: The First Battle", Erin Hunter)
So is it agreed? We will live in peace, but we train for battle -- battle we hope we never see.
-- Gray Wing ("Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #4: The Blazing Star", Erin Hunter)
You get so caught up on what could go wrong that you miss your chance to do anything, which is just as bad.
-- Pride Leader Merin ("Reevesbane: Gryphon Insurrection Book 4", K. Vale Nagle)
"I don't question your math, opinicus." Iony said, "I question your ethics."
-- Iony ("Reevesbane: Gryphon Insurrection Book 4", K. Vale Nagle)
I'm a total trash mammal, and nothing is ever going to work out!
-- Mae Borowski ("Night in the Woods", Infinite Fall)
This won't stop until I die.
But when I die, I want it to hurt.
When my friends leave, when I have to let go, when this entire town is wiped off the map, I want it to hurt. Bad.
I want to lose. I want to get beaten up. I want to hold on until I'm thrown off and everything ends.
And you know what?
Until that happens, I want to hope again. And I want it to hurt. Because that means it meant something.
It means I am something, at least... pretty amazing to be something, at least...-- Mae Borowski ("Night in the Woods", Infinite Fall)
Nothing is going to save us forever, but a lot can save us today
-- Mae Borowski ("Night in the Woods", Infinite Fall)
Life goes on
It feels so long
But I report
Life is too short.-- Selmers ("Night in the Woods", Infinite Fall)
Leslie, I got married twice. Both times, I was a lot older than those two, and both marriages ended in divorce. And a burning effigy.
Who's to say what works? You find somebody you like, and roll the dice. It's all anybody can do.-- Ron Swanson ("Parks and Recreation" S3E9)
Linux is a bit like punching yourself in the face. And when someone says, “why are you punching yourself in the face”, you go, “well, it’s free.”
-- Matt Parker
it must be wonderful to break - to be alive, at last
-- quote from a random uquiz
I went into the corridor and played with the straps of my hiking backpack for a while, thinking how strange it was that it'd contained my entire life for a time, and realised - ultimately - that I am not a hiker, I am a cat. Dogs will come to you for help when they're sick, they need you, and they're not ashamed of it. Cats - in my experience, anyway - isolate themselves, they shut down, and - most distressingly - when they think they're dying, they go somewhere, to die alone.
-- i don't remember, i think it was some video about a guy that went hiking for a couple years and was looking back on his time haha
Other Snippings
cool names for things and such! enjoy!
my jackrabbit heart
-- clipped from "Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter", Michael Warren Lucas