Erik Pevernagie Quotes

“Hope always comes after evil has done its work. We cannot keep living on hope, though. (Box of Pandora)”

“You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger.""No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!""Permission denied.”

“Hope...which is whispered from Pandora's box only after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing us outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion.”

“I despise common sense. I’ve seen the world from every possible angle. This cruel, ridiculous, beautiful world.”

“If all the people break, and all the world breaks, and everyone and everything goes mad, then I can be normal, just like everyone else, right?”

“I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.”

“If there is one thing I can pass on from my humbling experiences in life, thus far, I will tell you this, the next time someone tells you "the absence of expectations is the absence of disappointment, do not listen. Have expectations. Keep them great. It'll be a very bumpy ride. You'll even get bruised, sometimes very badly. Sometimes, you'll come to an abrupt halt or even fall off your ride. But you'll grow. And if you do not grow, you do not live.”

“Life is a journey worth making.”

“Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.”

“Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.”