destroying Quotes

“My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.””

“Frodo gave a cry, and there was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm’s edge. But Gollum, dancing like a mad thing, held aloft the ring, a finger still thrust within its circle.”

“The thing about writing is I can’t tell if it’s healing or destroying.”

“Mom frowned at me. ‘You’d be destroying what makes it special’ she said, ‘It’s the Joshua tree’s struggle that gives it its beauty’.”

“You can destroy wood and brick, but you can’t destroy a movement.”

“A year ago today, I was undoing my husband. Now I am almost done reassembling him.”

″‘Maybe you should just feed me to him,’ Seth said.

‘Don’t talk nonsense,’ Grandma said.

Seth stood up. ‘Wouldn’t it be better than letting Olloch destroy all of Fablehaven? Sounds like he’ll get me sooner or later.‘”

“It’s harder to burn down a house than you think,” Luke said.

“Rufus had caused her trouble, and now he had been rewarded for it. It made no sense. No matter how kindly he treated her now that he had destroyed her, it made no sense.”

“‘It’s our nature. We destroy. It’s the constant of our kind. No matter the color of blood, man will always fall.‘”

“Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

“There’s no way to know what makes one thing happen and not another. What leads to what. What destroys what. What causes what to flourish or die or take another course.”

“A prolonged war finally destroys the victors too,”

“It isn’t about destroying our capability to fight so much as crushing our will to fight.”

“Your mind will keep you up at night, make you cry, destroy you over and over again. You need to convince your mind that it has to let go…because your heart already knows how to heal.”

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”

“…They think of suicide as a quick route to oblivion, an escape. Far from it. It merely alters a person from one form to another. Nothing can destroy the spirit.

“There are two kinds of hot girls: Evil Hot Girls, and Hot Girls Who Are Also Sympathetic Good-Hearted People and Will Not Intentionally Destroy Your Life (HGWAASGHPAWNIDYL).”

“We’ll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.”

“I have not committed the ultimate act of nihilism: I have not killed the queen.”

“That’s exactly why we’re killing... to survive. We can’t allow the dead to exist beside the living. Their brains are impaired, they exist for only one purpose. They have to be destroyed.”

“Such fear can destroy us completely. You’ve got to get rid of it, you’ve simply got to, if you want to turn into someone decent.”

“Mutants surrender now--or be destroyed! Blam!”

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”

“Answerless questions can destroy you. Move on.”

“This moment right now-is where we decide what kind of city Artemis is going to be. We can either act now, or let our home degenerate into syndicate rule for generations. This isn’t some theoretical scenario. They burned down a business. They murdered two people. There’s a huge amount of money in play - they’re not going to stop.”

“We’re not destroying the world because we’re clumsy. We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”