Marya Hornbacher Quotes

We are a great, powerless country.

I feel like I'm always talking about myself, and I love not talking about myself.

It hurts to want everything and nothing at the same time.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

A lot of my work has been about the unexpected—that kind of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time. That kind of dilemma—that push and pull—is the underlying turbulence that I bring to each of the pieces that I make.

Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.

She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.

Men love their vices and hate them at the same time.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

To despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.

She knew she shouldn't feel that way about a monster, but right then, she wanted nothing more than a monster of her very own.

Altruists, with thin, weak voices, denounce Christ as an egoist. Egoists (with even thinner and weaker voices) denounce Him as an altruist.

I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure.

The higher I get the lower I sink.

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy

Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.