Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other. Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream
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Quote:- Then Carrot said, "It's better to light a candle than curse the darkness, captain. That's what they say.""What?" Vimes' sudden rage was like a thunderclap. "Who says that? When has that ever been true? It's never been true! It's the kind of thing people without power say to make it all seem less bloody awful, but it's just words, it never makes any difference -
Men at Arms
Author:- Terry Pratchett
Category:- best
Quote:- Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she said when Deborah reached her. "We saw you coming." The wicket gate became a turnstile. Deborah pushed against it and there was no resistance, she was through. "What is it?" she asked. "Am I really here at last? Is this the bottom of the pool?" "It could be," smiled the woman. "There are so many ways. You just happened to choose this one." Other people were pressing to come through. They had no faces, they were only shadows. Deborah stood aside to let them by, and in a moment they had gone, all phantoms. "Why only now, tonight?" asked Deborah. "Why not in the afternoon, when I came to the pool?""It's a trick," said the woman. "You seize on the moment in time. We were here this afternoon. We're always here. Our life goes on around you, but nobody knows it. The trick's easier by night, that's all." "Am I dreaming, then?" asked Deborah."No," said the woman, "this isn't a dream. And it isn't death, either. It's the secret world." The secret world... It was something Deborah had always known, and now the pattern was complete. The memory of it, and the relief, were so tremendous that something seemed to burst inside her heart. "Of course..." she said, "of course..." and everything that had ever been fell into place. There was no disharmony. The joy was indescribable, and the surge of feeling, like wings about her in the air, lifted her away from the turnstile and the woman, and she had all knowledge. That was it - the invasion of knowledge. ("The Pool")
Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories
Author:- Daphne du Maurier
Category:- knowledge,time
Quote:- Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.
Lord of Light
Author:- Roger Zelazny
Category:- hope
Quote:- Then for a brief moment he saw everything completely differently. Open space, empty and endless, stretched away in all directions. Everything within this dead expanse, every living thing was helpless and alone. Things were happening by accident, and when the accident failed, automatic law appeared – the rhythmical machinery of nature, the cogs and pistons of history, conformity with the rules that was rotting from the inside and crumbling to dust. Cold and sorrow reigned everywhere. Every creature was trying to huddle up to something, to cling to something, to things, to each other, but all that resulted was suffering and despair.The quality of what Izydor saw was temporality. Under a colourful outer coating everything was merging in collapse, decay, and destruction.
Primeval and Other Times
Author:- Olga Tokarczuk
Category:- time
Quote:- Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.
The Return of the King
Author:- J.R.R. Tolkien
Category:- hope
Quote:- Then Hope, that most precarious of human emotions, slipped in on silent tiptoes.
Once Upon a Today
Author:- E. L. Miller
Category:- hope,philosophy
Quote:- Then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author:- Mary Ann Shaffer
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Then I met Linda and the sun rose.I can't find a better way to express it. The sun rose in my life. At first, as dawn breaking on the horizon, almost as if to say, this is where you have to look. Then came the first rays of sunshine, everything became clearer, lighter, more alive, and I became happier and happier, and then it hung in the sky of my life and shone and shone and shone.
Min kamp 2
Author:- Karl Ove Knausgård
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- Then I realize I am responsible for fate, fiction is truthful, a sinner and saint I am, an egotistical utilitarian as well. I'll be mortal forever.
Greenlights
Author:- Matthew McConaughey
Category:- hope
Quote:- Then others for breath of words respect,Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect.
Author:- William Shakespeare
Category:- poetry
Quote:- Then she calls me and she's crying and we talk for a while about her marriage and while I am sad that my friend is sad, it makes me happier than ever that I've never been married and never will be, because marriage sounds like a goddamn job, and why would I want another one of those?
All Grown Up
Author:- Jami Attenberg
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead.
Author:- Earl Lovelace
Category:- time
Quote:- Then take from me. I have more than enough.
Once There Were Wolves
Author:- Charlotte McConaghy
Category:- Love
Quote:- Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living.
Let's Get Lost
Author:- Adi Alsaid
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Then the edge asserts itself. You are not a god. You are not that enlarged self. Indeed, you are not even a whole self, as you now see. Your new knowledge of possibilities is also a knowledge of what is lacking in the actual.
Eros the Bittersweet
Author:- Anne Carson
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love.
Author:- Plato
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings. Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket. ‘My Word,’ said Bouvard, ‘look at those worlds disappearing.’ Pecuchet replied: ‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’ ‘What is the point of it all?’ ‘Perhaps there isn’t a point.’ ‘Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.
Bouvard and Pecuchet
Author:- Gustave Flaubert
Category:- science
Quote:- Then Valdr showed them a nest of sleeping starlings, and Eragon could feel their dreams flickering in their minds, fast as the blink of an eye. At first, Valdr’s emotion was one of contempt - the starlings’ dreams seemed tiny, petty, and inconsequential - but then his mood changed and became warm and sympathetic, and even the smallest of the starlings’ concerns grew in importance until it seemed equal to the worries of kings.
Inheritance
Author:- Christopher Paolini
Category:- philosophy