Sometimes you can’t pick the people who love you any more than you can change the minds of people who should love you but don’t.

Жестокая истина: когда ты умрешь, мир просто перешагнет через твой труп и пойдет дальше.

Sure, the Jiangs own their house, but it’s a modest house! Bought decades ago when home ownership was presumably still an achievable goal that didn’t require the sort of money that takes like, sacrificing virgins and/or all morals and ethics for.

Joy seemed so fleeting compared to lingering grief.

Lan Wangji. How many times must he die? What will it take for you to hold on and not let go? He’s not a bird and you’re not a cage.

Well, that’s how death works, isn’t it. You survive everything except what kills you.

It doesn't take much to make small men break.

Throwing Wei Wuxian in the vague direction of a problem to see if he’ll fix it is annoyingly effective as far as strategies go and Jiang Cheng hates it.

War taught you things about yourself you never wanted to know, and revealed the worst of humanity.

No matter if committed relationship or hook up, sex is only fun if both parties get to enjoy it.

Если в продолжении фильма нет сценаристов или режиссеров первого фильма, это просто высокобюджетный фанфик.

Age isn’t a measure of competence.

They said money can’t buy happiness, but Toshinori was certain only people who had never been poor really believed that.

Вашими устами да помолчать бы..

In Wei Wuxian’s defense, Lan Zhan had pulled out and then stared down at his cock with an expression of utter betrayal, as though this previously obedient appendage had been swapped out for its evil orgasming twin without Lan Zhan’s knowledge. A rock would have laughed at him.

I sometimes wonder if that’s a peril of genius, being able to see through the veils we cover children’s eyes with.

That's not how it works. Screwed up kids can't ruin families, it's the screwed up parents that deserve all the blame.

You must respect other people’s choices, and your own. Your choice and your body belong to you. No one has a right to it but you. You can sleep with whoever you like and say no to whoever you like. It is your decision and requires no defense, no explanation. I don’t care if it’s strangers, friends, teachers; you have a right to say No.

Injustices should never become easy to bear. Promises should never be easy to break.

Само плывет в руки только то, что не тонет.

Sometimes crying is the only way your eyes can speak when your mouth can’t explain the things that made your heart broken.

It’s no good solving one problem by creating another.

Воистину, цивилизации скоротечны — маркетинг вечен!

The root causes of crime: poverty, desperation, and life without dignity.

"Being rejected by someone you knew you never stood a chance with is like pouring salt on a wound that already has salt in it. It preserves the hurt."
- Maria G. Cope

Безумству храбрых — венки со скидкой.

There was a deeply bitter freedom to being an orphan with no family left to shame.

Чисто по логике — джедаи это отмороженные пофигисты, а ситхи психически нездоровые истерики. Да и вообще, все дети и подростки — ситхи, постепенно вырастающие в стариков-джедаев, которые, воспитывая мелких ситхов, отморозились и приобрели неубиваемое спокойствие. Достигли, так сказать, просветления.

Выгодно не верить в то, что мешает грешить.

Муж — это не просто мужик, который тебя любит. Это человек, для которого ты важен по-настоящему, а не в свободное от всего остального время.

You can’t be expected to save someone else from drowning when you’re five feet underwater yourself.

The mark of a good person isn’t only having saintly thoughts all the time. It’s also consciously choosing not to do something bad even when it would have been easier to.

Sanity can be overrated. Life is easier to handle when you’re crazy.

If he had ever liked something about the Dark Lord, it was his honest domination. You always knew your place, on your knees, no mind-fucking necessary.

The past is always here, but it’s the future a person can effect.

They're teenagers. They change their moods more often than they change their underwear.

Волшебная палочка. Это не только молоток для забивания гвоздей, микроскоп для исследований и фонарик. Это пистолет, автомат, гранатомёт, а в руках сильного волшебника — ядерная ракета.

Кто не рискует, тот не пьёт шампанского. А кто рискует – пьёт манную кашу через трубочку.

Wars do not care for children.

Звезды, они хороши и ярки на небе, а когда в руках, то камни обыкновенные, вертишь и думаешь, а на кой они мне нужны были?

Все, что приносит удовольствие, либо незаконно, либо аморально, либо ведет к ожирению.

Климат в России предназначен для уничтожения неприятеля.

Ичия, это который облитый духами карлик, пытался подкатить к Эльзе. Пусть земля ему будет пухом. Ведь этот мазохист решил подкатывать к самой сложной по характеру девице. Да, она очень красивая, когда одевается женственно, а не таскает свой доспех, но вот характер… перекрещу и скажу аминь тому, кто с ней сойдётся. Прах его телу и психбольница нервам.

You can’t depend on the people who hurt you to be the ones to make it better, or it’s never going to get better. They’ll only disappoint you, or hurt you even worse, and then they’ll be gone and you’ll be waiting forever.

Common sense is a collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

For any lesson worth learning, teaching is the act of tracing scars.

All the power in the world means nothing if you don’t have the ability to control it. All the dreams in the world mean nothing if you don’t have the determination for it. And all the threats in the world mean nothing if you can stand in front of it and smile.

Tact is a dead language everywhere.

‘Bad timing’ is a synonym for ‘life’.

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.” - Terry Pratchett

Rules only apply to those who can't break them.

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Два дебила — это сила...

Три дебила — есть дурдом...

Если четверо дебилов, будет вам Армагеддон...

Пять дебилов — Конец Света...

Шесть дебилов — нет планеты...

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Nostalgia paints a beautiful dream where a nightmare once was, and makes heroes of villains.

Children bury their parents. It’s how things are supposed to be, sweet boy.

Things end. It’s as simple as that. Doesn’t mean they aren’t awesome while they last.

Murdered souls can only rest when they receive justice.

Кто в молодости не был либералом, у того нет сердца, но кто с возрастом не стал консерватором, у того нет мозгов.

Острый аппендицит или тромбоз правой коронарной артерии безусловно угрожали жизни пациентов, но незнание психиатрии угрожало жизни самого врача.

Простого огуречного рассола ты не найдешь нигде и никогда. Только у нас. Непонятно, почему еще не налажен экспорт, не мчатся цистерны, не проложены рассолопроводы. Можно подумать, мы одни такие пьющие. Или не нашлось еще готового рискнуть печенью Прометея, который украл бы у нас эту тайну и отдал страдающему от похмелья человечеству?

Kuidaore was a Japanese word meaning roughly "to ruin oneself by extravagance in food" and literally meaning "to eat oneself bankrupt". It was a part of a larger proverb: "Dress till you drop in Kyoto, eat till you drop in Osaka".

I must say there's something comforting in realizing that politics hasn't really changed much over the years: it's still a viper's nest full of bipolar drama queens.

This is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. Well, all I'm hearing is the obnoxious ranting of a child too scared of sleeping in his own room for fear of the monster hiding under the bed.

It’s New York. Someone’s always got a camera and an opinion.