“The more complex our security becomes, the more complex our enemy's efforts must be.The more we seek to shut him out, the better he must learn to become at breaking in.Each new level of security that we manage becomes no more than a stepping-stone for him who would surpass us, for he bases his next assault upon our best defenses.It is a ware that can never truly be won… but one we dare not lose.” NextLosesLevelsEffortEnemySecurityStonesBasesComplexesDareDefenseManageAssaultStepping Stones Book:This Alien Shore Source: This Alien Shore
“No. No. I don't listen to anyone except my ... inner child anyway. If someone had said to me, Amy, lose a stone which they wouldn't - I don't think I would have listened anyway.” IfsThinkingChildrenSaidLosesStonesAmyInner Child Author:Amy Winehouse
“When I was a child, I used to go wandering - disused railway-lines, old barns, dry-stone walls, strangely Pre-Raphaelite copses - it's much more fun to wander than to be guided, and you could do it in those days with freedom and without paranoia. In similar fashion, I try to allow the reader room to wander, even to meander, to almost lose themselves and their grip of the narrative.” TryingChildrenUsedFunLosesLinesRoomsFashionWallReaderStonesWanderNarrativeDryParanoiaRailwayBarnsStone Walls Author:Suhayl Saadi
“I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.” WayLoveYearsPainFacesWaterLosesAbilityStonesWornWashingCarvingWashing Away Book:The Joy Luck Club Source: The Joy Luck Club
“And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.” HeartBodyFallVoiceLosesCitiesStreetsMy HeartBirdStonesSightWingsI RealizedFlyingRanAnguishSplendidWreathsGliding Author:Milan Kundera
“Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldDreamStrongLosesFlowerLike YouDiscoveryStonesTalesTriumphYour DreamsFairyFairy TaleProtectedDefeatedEnchantmentExemplaryUnknowing Author:Ben Okri
“The witch's hair was too short and too dark for blond. She wasn't sure if that relieved her or disturbed her. Riley had immediately begun his interrogation, and it had gone something like this: Riley: Where is the meeting between your kind and Aden Stone supposed to take place? Witch: Go suck yourself. Riley: Maybe later. Meeting? Witch: Enjoy death. Riley: I have once already. Now, decide to talk or lose a body part. Witch: May I recommend a finger? Riley: Sure. After I take one of your very necessary hands.” IfsKindMayBodyHandsEnjoyLosesDarkGoneHairStonesMeetingsFingersWitchToo ShortDisturbedRelievedInterrogation Book:Unraveled Source: Unraveled
“Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.” MindLostWaterLosesForgetEffortForeverStrangeStonesAngryPreservesSpiteLastingPersistApologizingMonumentMossSpoken WordMoths Book:The Memoirs of Cleopatra Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra
“One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.” SelfLosesStonesPairsGlovesCrown Duel Author:Sherwood Smith