Darren Aronofsky - The Fountain (2006)
Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear now. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul. You, the condemned, you have confessed. You admit to protecting a queen who twists the word of God and drowns all Spain in sin. Your queen seeks immortality on Earth. A false paradise. This is heresy. She leads you towards vanity away from the Spirit. But this is foolishness for death exists.
Darren Aronofsky
- Izzi - The Fountain
No, no. Listen, listen. He said that if they dug his father's body up, it would be gone. They planted a seed over his grave. The seed became a tree. Moses said his father became a part of that tree. He grew into the wood, into the bloom. And when a sparrow ate the tree's fruit, his father flew with the birds. He said... death was his father's road to awe. That's what he called it. The road to awe. I've been trying to write that last chapter and I haven't been able to get that out of my head!
Leigh Bardugo
- The Ninth House
Darlington was all about the pursuit of perfection, something spectacular. He didn't know how precious a normal life could be, how easy it was to drift away from average. You started sleeping until noon, skipped one class, one day of school, lost one job, then another, forget the way that normal people did things. You lost the language of ordinary life. And then, without meaning to, you crossed into a country from which you couldn't return.
Viktor E. Frankl
- Man's Search for Meaning
Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.
Charles Dickens
- She Was More...
She was more than human to me. She was a fairy, a sylph, I don't know what she was - anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. there was no pausing on the brink; no looking down, or looking back; I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
Sarah J. Maas
- Dorian Havilliard
She was here to fight for him - and for her freedom. And nothing more. He lay down, his hand still upon his sword, and fell asleep. Still, the image haunted his dreams throughout the night: a lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back.
