Dries

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.—A Clash of Kings”
― George R.R. Martin, The Wit & Wisdom of Tyrion Lannister

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Die Westerse samelewing het so verwyderd geraak van die geestelike sfeer dat hulle die dood beskou as die ergste ding wat die mens kan tref, maar laat ek jou nou sê, Rosa, daar’s veel erger dinge as die dood: eensaamheid, uitsigloosheid, verguising, verwerping, verwaarlosing, ’n lewe sonder liefde …” Hy het gesug. “Die dood is ’n wegkomkans van hierdie sinloosheid, en ’n poort tot ’n nuwe, betekenisvolle bestaan.”
― Gerda Taljaard, Die laksman se dogter

“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies