quotes about Graceling

“The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.”

Source : "Kenyan MPs' Fury Over Island Row". news.bbc.co.uk. May 13, 2009.

“I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.”

“Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.”

Source : Arthur Miller (2015). “The Crucible”, p.67, Bloomsbury Publishing

“A government without the power of defense! It is a solecism.”

“Where I say that He abideth sorrowfully and moaning, it meaneth all the true feeling that we have in our self, in contrition and compassion, and all sorrowing and moaning that we are not oned with our Lord. And all such that is speedful, it is Christ in us. And though some of us feel it seldom, it passeth never from Christ till what time He hath brought us out of all our woe. For love suffereth never to be without pity.”

“Don't freak yourself out by what other people have. They don't have what you've got.”

“I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?”

“Any legislator who says he doesn't see the downside hasn't done his homework”

“Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.”

“Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.”