January 2016 Themes
I'm here to start off next year's themes! Hope you've all had a great 2015 and that 2016 will hold even more wonders for you, both in creative endeavours and out of it. This month's themes start off with a couple of my favourite gaming quotes, and the rest are all from books. Not all of them great books, but all great quotes.
Themes
1. Aim to the sky with love and hope and time.
2. All we can do is believe in them.
3. Now I know I’ve got a heart, because it is breaking.
4. One’s books start living their independent lives soon enough, just like one’s children.
5. The loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.
6. Happiness is almost as good as magic for altering a person's looks.
7. You have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
8. A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
9. Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.
10. Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.
11. Family means taking the folks we're stuck with and choosing to love them anyway.
12. They always name themselves.
13. Strength is quite different from toughness and being vulnerable isn't quite the same as being weak.
14. Half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'
15. You should think with your heart.
16. Brave is protecting others from hurt.
17. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
18. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning.
19. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.
20. To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.
21. Who steals my purse steals trash, but who steals my sword steals honour itself.
22. Think a minute, even if it hurts.
23. To those who persevere, all things are possible.
24. The dry seed deep in the dark earth, feeling the rain and the warmth seeping down to it.
25. Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.
26. Don't be surprised if the fire plays back.
27. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates.
28. There are many shades of trust, and most of them are grey.
29. If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better.
30. Death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.
31. Maybe that’s the mark of a real leader.
Sources
1. Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - The First Turnabout
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
4. How To Be a Brit by George Mikes
5. What If? by Randall Munroe
6. Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
7. The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
8. Watership Down by Richard Adams
9. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
10. Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? by Lemony Snicket
11. The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan
12. The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones
13. Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
14. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
15. Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
16. This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman
17. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
18. The Lion Hunter by Elizabeth Wein
19. Chasing Odysseus by Sulari Gentill
20. The Antipope by Robert Rankin
21. Half Magic by Edward Eager
22. Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin
23. Jinx by Sage Blackwood
24. Wise Child by Monica Furlong
25. Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
26. Runemarks by Joanne Harris
27. In the Company of Ogres by A. Lee Martinez
28. Neverseen by Shannon Messenger
29. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
30. The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
31. The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
Themes
1. Aim to the sky with love and hope and time.
2. All we can do is believe in them.
3. Now I know I’ve got a heart, because it is breaking.
4. One’s books start living their independent lives soon enough, just like one’s children.
5. The loneliest human in history was just happy to have a few minutes of peace and quiet.
6. Happiness is almost as good as magic for altering a person's looks.
7. You have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
8. A thing can be true and still be desperate folly.
9. Sometimes people can learn a lot about each other just by sitting in silence.
10. Villainy can win against one library, but not against an organization of readers.
11. Family means taking the folks we're stuck with and choosing to love them anyway.
12. They always name themselves.
13. Strength is quite different from toughness and being vulnerable isn't quite the same as being weak.
14. Half the trouble in the world comes from people asking 'What have I achieved?' rather than 'What have I enjoyed?'
15. You should think with your heart.
16. Brave is protecting others from hurt.
17. Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
18. I held my hand over your heart all through that final morning.
19. Cherish the world of the living whilst you have it, for you cannot visit there again.
20. To say that it was wondrous would be to say that the universe is quite a big place.
21. Who steals my purse steals trash, but who steals my sword steals honour itself.
22. Think a minute, even if it hurts.
23. To those who persevere, all things are possible.
24. The dry seed deep in the dark earth, feeling the rain and the warmth seeping down to it.
25. Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.
26. Don't be surprised if the fire plays back.
27. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates.
28. There are many shades of trust, and most of them are grey.
29. If people were silent, they could hear the noise of their own lives better.
30. Death didn't scare her. It made her feel alive.
31. Maybe that’s the mark of a real leader.
Sources
1. Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire
2. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - The First Turnabout
3. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
4. How To Be a Brit by George Mikes
5. What If? by Randall Munroe
6. Which Witch? by Eva Ibbotson
7. The Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
8. Watership Down by Richard Adams
9. There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom by Louis Sachar
10. Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights? by Lemony Snicket
11. The Detective's Assistant by Kate Hannigan
12. The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones
13. Good Night, Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian
14. The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
15. Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy by Karen Foxlee
16. This Shattered World by Amie Kaufman
17. Dealing with Dragons by Patricia C. Wrede
18. The Lion Hunter by Elizabeth Wein
19. Chasing Odysseus by Sulari Gentill
20. The Antipope by Robert Rankin
21. Half Magic by Edward Eager
22. Another Fine Myth by Robert Asprin
23. Jinx by Sage Blackwood
24. Wise Child by Monica Furlong
25. Flora Segunda by Ysabeau S. Wilce
26. Runemarks by Joanne Harris
27. In the Company of Ogres by A. Lee Martinez
28. Neverseen by Shannon Messenger
29. The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
30. The School for Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
31. The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau