Steve Rasnic Tem quotes

“If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.”
-- Steve Rasnic Tem

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

#Choices Quotes #If You Love Someone Quotes #Losing Quotes

“For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.”
-- Steve Rasnic Tem

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

#Thinking Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Chance Quotes

“I was never very good with either my hands or feet. It always seemed to me they'd just been stuck on as an afterthought during my making. Dreams didn't translate through sports, or music, dancing, carpentry, plumbing. I was the bookish kid, more at home in the pages of a fantasy than in the room in the town on the planet.”
-- Steve Rasnic Tem

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

#Sports Quotes #Dream Quotes #Kids Quotes

“For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.”
-- Steve Rasnic Tem

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

#Sky Quotes #Long Quotes #Personality Quotes

“The strongest presence is so often an absence.”
-- Steve Rasnic Tem

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem (2012). “Deadfall Hotel”, p.57, Solaris

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“The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.”
-- Steve Rasnic Tem

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem (2012). “Deadfall Hotel”, p.144, Solaris

#Struggle Quotes #Imagination Quotes #World Quotes

“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”
-- Steve Rasnic Tem

Source : Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem (2008). “The Man on the Ceiling”, Wizards of the Coast Discoveries

#Beautiful Quotes #Real Quotes #Angel Quotes

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”

“Love shouldn't make our choices for us; it should just add importance to our choices.”

“We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.”

“Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.”

Source : "Music To Your Ears" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. January 28, 2013.

“Playboy stretched his arm, patting Carlos on the back. "Well, you know what they say: If you love someone, let'em go. If they don't come back, hunt'em down and kill'em!”

“Due to success I started losing friends.”

Source : Song: Have Mercy, 2013

“I’m lucky that I’m afraid of losing something”

“Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter.”

“Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.”

Source : Albert Payson Terhune (1930). “To the Best of My Memory”, New York : Harper

“If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.”

Source : Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan