Luthen Rael, Andor

Calm. Kindness, kinship. Love. I’ve given up all chance at inner peace, I’ve made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there’s only one conclusion: I’m damned for what I do. My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost, and by the time I looked down, there was no longer any ground beneath my feet.

What is… what is my sacrifice? I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life, to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see. No, the ego that started this fight will never have a mirror, or an audience, or the light of gratitude. So what do I sacrifice?

Everything!

Robert A. Heinlein - Time Enough For Love

The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty." Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute—get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

A dozen Heinlein quotations for sci fi day

Toni Morrison

No more apologies for a bleeding heart when the opposite is no heart at all. Danger of losing our humanity must be met with more humanity. Otherwise we stand meekly behind Eris, hold Nemesis’s cloak, and genuflect at the feet of Thanatos.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Nat "King" Cole, Nature Boy

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Erich Fromm

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Erich Fromm

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Erich Fromm

Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'

Hafiz

One regret, dear world,
That I am determined not to have
When I am lying on my deathbed
Is that I did not kiss you enough.

Kent Nerburn

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme.

I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry.

I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call.

But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.

Julia Stiles as Kat Stratford, 10 Things I Hate About You

Kat Stratford: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you screw up, you know?

Patrick Verona: Yeah, I know. But then, you know, there's always drums, and bass, and maybe even one day a tambourine.

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona: I had some extra money lying around. Some asshole paid me to take out this really great girl.

Kat Stratford: Is that right?

Patrick Verona: Yeah, but I screwed up. I fell for her.

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You

Don't let anyone ever make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

Heath Ledger as Patrick Verona, 10 Things I Hate About You

Patrick Verona: Well maybe you're not afraid of me but I'm sure you've thought about me naked, huh?

Kat Stratford: [sarcastically] Am I that transparent? I want you, I need you, oh baby, oh baby.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cameron James, 10 Things I Hate About You

Cameron James: Would any of you be interested in dating Katarina Stratford?

Guy: Maybe if we were the last two people alive, and there were no sheep. Are there sheep?

Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, Hook

You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you. That's where I'll be waiting.

Iris Murdoch

The absolute yearning of one human body for another one, and its indifference to substitutes, is one of life's major mysteries.

Martin Buber

What happens during the unspoken dialogue between two people can never be changed by the things they say.

Unknown

Missing you isn't the hardest part, knowing I once had you is what breaks my heart.