I had been depressed for so long that it had become a permanent state of mind. Expectations might lift the edge of the cloud every time one took a new job, but life never turned out to be as good as the hopes.
"fireheart, why do you cry?"
"because i am lost. and i do not know the way"
"you have been very brave," her mother said. "you have been very brave, for so very long"
"but you must be brave a little while longer, my fireheart"
"you must be brave a little while longer, and remember.."
her mother placed a phantom hand over aelin’s heart.
"it is the strength of this that matters. no matter where you are, no matter how far, this will lead you home"
"it is the strength of this that matters, aelin"
"you do not yield."
The God of the deists has sometimes been called the watchmaker God, who created the world as a watchmaker makes a watch and then winds it up and lets it run. Since God was a perfect watchmaker, there was no need for him to interfere with the world later. Hence the deists rejected anything that seemed to be an interference or intervention of God with the world, such as miracles or a special revelation through the Bible.
It’s her job to be in charge, but who is she trying to fool? She went to high school and college and then…here, so what life has she lived that means she can tell us the right way to live ours? She’s always been in school.
I grit my teeth. Adults never tell you the truth about anything, anyway.
During her life, Veronika had noticed that a lot of people she knew would talk about the horrors in other people's lives as if they were genuinely concerned to help them, but the truth was that they took pleasure in the suffering of others, because that made them believe they were happy and that life had been generous with them.
-"An' I— well, being with you has been so much fun... I might just be subatitute fer Hikaru but— you've done so much fer me. I love you, Yoshiki. I don't know what this feelin' is, if it's romantic love or platonic love. But no matter what, that's how I feel."—Hikaru