Zitate und Sprüche aus Die große Stille

How can we prepare for the future if we won't acknowledge the past?

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.

Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

"I think," Hoa says slowly, "that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back."

After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me, and you.

But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them - even if, in truth, their victims couldn't care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.

I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

If you can imagine something, it will be.

In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

It's all right to need help. All of us have things we can't do alone.

Well. Adolescence is all about making mistakes.

But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?

Mother always said that if one must do something unpleasant, one should do it wholeheartedly and not waste effort on regret.

Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.