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.
-- exurb2a, in his video "The Answer is Not a Hut in the Woods"
Legend says that when Cortés arrived in the New World, he burned his ships so there was no turning back. He had a plan for conquest.
You burned the ship. You don’t have a plan. Get a plan quick.
kick up my hooves,
charge at the monster in the dark
with desperate hope,
it’s unaware my teeth aren’t sharp
let me be hurt
let me be terrified and bruised
for i just know that you’re too much for me to lose-- excerpt from bit depth - world of white
I've been clipping down your wings,
to keep you inside - in and tightly held. [...] I know now the subtleties of working wings,
I know now the subtleties of setting someone free.-- excerpt from Foxing - Death, Love, Sativa (or what I heard in it, anyway; they never seem to have released any lyrics)
Other Snippings
cool names for things and such! enjoy!
my jackrabbit heart
-- clipped from "Savaged by Systemd: an Erotic Unix Encounter", Michael Warren Lucas