“And some win peace who spend The skill of words to sweeten despair Of finding consolation where Life has but one dark end.” EndsDeathWinningDarkSkillsDespairFindingsConsolation Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.” FormHouseDarkSkillsBeatsWoundsPostsThrillingFrontiersHollowVisionaries Author:Laird Barron
“The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.” ShouldForceSocialDarkDecisionObjectsIgnoranceSkillsInvestmentDefeatOur FutureEnvelopesDark Forces Author:John Maynard Keynes
“The Long Emergency will be chiefly characterized as a "time out" from technology. It could plunge us into a dark age of superstition. My guess is that we will lose a lot of knowledge and skill. But I also believe the human race desperately needs this "time out."” NeedsBelieveHumansLongAgeLosesDarkRaceTechnologySkillsHuman RaceSuperstitionsEmergenciesDark AgesPlunge Author:James Howard Kunstler
“If you're an older sibling and you have a younger sibling who needs mentoring or is afraid of the dark, you develop nurturing and empathic skills that you wouldn't otherwise have.” IfsNeedsDarkSkillsSiblingNurturingMentoringYounger SiblingsOlder Sibling Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).” WorldLifeLooksLongHardJoyLostDarkMy OwnPerfectBehindsBrainWorstTaughtMoonSkillsDespairLong TimeDaughterRedWindowSeasonsDressesVictimFlamesGloriousMy DaughterYellowSpheresBedroomStrokesRebirthOutlinesColorlessCrescentCrescent Moon Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“You’re not the only one who calls them that; the other Downworlders do the same,” said Will. “I discovered that fact while investigating the symbol. I must have carried that knife through a hundred Downworld haunts, searching for someone who might recognize it. I offered a reward for information. Eventually the name of the Dark Sisters came to my ears.” “Downworld?” Tessa echoed, puzzled. “Is that a place in London?” “Never mind that,” said Will. “I’m boasting of my investigative skills, and I would prefer to do it without interruption. Where was I?” MindSaidFactsMightNamesDarkInformationSkillsHundredEarsRewardsLondonSymbolsKnivesBoastInterruptionsPuzzledInvestigatingSearching For Someone Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him; and it will then be but poor consolation to believe the world equally in the dark. There is so much of gratitude or vanity in almost any attachment, that it is not safe to leave any to itself. We can all begin ‘freely’- as light preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have a heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.” IfsWorldBelieveHeartMayEnoughLightOpportunityLosesNaturalDarkPoorObjectsGratitudeSkillsSafeEncouragementAffectionVanityAttachmentPreferenceConsolationFixing Author:Jane Austen
“It doesn't take skill to stand in a place were no bullets find you, or to fire into the dark and hit a man you didn't see.” MenDarkFireSkillsBullets Author:Veronica Roth