Hoard Quotes

“If one bad thing befell me, I immediately linked it to every bad thing that had happened in the last week or might happen in the coming week. And when I became sad, I was prone to wallow in grief, piling up my woes and sprawling on them like a dragon on a hoard.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin

“Even years from now, once I've stopped drinking, I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy who makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every available bit of it. And if it's toxic, if it turns your liver into a hard little rock of scar tissue, or curls your memory at the edges like something burned in a fire, or makes your stomach flop, or your mind ache, or your personality contorted, you shouldn't buy into the bullshit about temperance.”
― Koren Zailckas, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood

“The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

“We can fill our lives with ‘stuff,’ but as we do we’re concurrently filling our lives with the obligation to maintain that ‘stuff.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To simply survive appears to be the choice of the plodding hoards that wander all around me. Therefore, I’ve adamantly committed to never hoard hoards.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Life-hoarding (as I coined it) keeps you stuck to your stuff, slow to action, and ironically, makes you miss out on greater joyful experiences.⁣”
― Richie Norton

“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The best way to solve the problem of always having to stand in some sort of line is to choose a path that no one else is taking.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hauck, it’s broken,” he calls.

“What?”

The human you hoarded.” Quinton repeats, waving his hand toward me in disgust. “Something is wrong with it.”

“You broke it, you fix it,”
― Alex Lidell, Dragons' Captive

“Then was the keeper of the barrow swollen with wrath, purposing, fell beast, with fire to avenge his precious drinking-vessel. Now was the day faded to the serpent's joy. No longer would he tarry on the mountain-side, but went blazing forth, sped with fire. Terrible for the people in that land was the beginning (of that war), even as the swift and bitter came its end upon their lord and patron. Now the invader did begin to spew forth glowing fires and set ablaze the shining halls -- the light of the burning leapt forth to the woe of men.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell