“It's a broken life we live. It's best to accept it and move on rather than waste a good day worrying about it.”
― Lisa Alfonso, quote from Believe (Rules, #1)
“You can't just look at me like that and expect me to get over it.”
― Lisa Alfonso, quote from Believe (Rules, #1)
“Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City.
But what if the ones who set the rules are the ones lying to you?
What if the ones who reprimand the rule-breakers are lying to you?
Who do you believe when there is nobody left to believe?”
― Lisa Alfonso, quote from Believe (Rules, #1)
“We're going to die eventually" I protest. "I'd rather die from trying to live than not live at all.”
― Lisa Alfonso, quote from Believe (Rules, #1)
“malfunction |malˈfə ng k sh ən| verb [ intrans. ] fail to function normally or satisfactorily”
― Lisa Alfonso, quote from Believe (Rules, #1)
Lisa Alfonso
Born place: in Montgomery
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“Scott found two discs when he opened the envelope, one labeled Tyler’s, the other Club Red. Something about the number of discs bothered him, and then he recalled Melon had logged two discs from Club Red. He wondered why Cowly gave him only one of the Club Red discs, but decided it didn’t matter. Scott”
― Robert Crais, quote from Suspect
“The flip side of being a person who never fails at anything is that you never do anything you could fail at. You never do anything risky. There’s a certain essential lack of courage among people who seem to be good at everything. Faye,”
― quote from The Nix
“I wanted the two of us to be complicated together, to be difficult and engrossing and blindingly brilliant.”
― Brittany Cavallaro, quote from A Study in Charlotte
“I once heard a story about a girl who requested something so vile from her paramour that he told her family and they had her hauled her off to a sanatorium. I don’t know what deviant pleasure she asked for, though I desperately wish I did. What magical thing could you want so badly they take you away from the known world for wanting it?”
― Carmen Maria Machado, quote from Her Body and Other Parties
“Silence then, a world at rest. Not the antithesis of dust, of speed, but its complement. The gloved hand ungloved its partner which in turn ungloved its mate. Fingers untied her chiffon and felt for hair under her hat. Strays tidied behind her ears. The chiffon became a scarf, her hands reawoke the wide sloping brim of her hat. Gradually the earth too rewoke. Hedges chirruped to life, a crow bickered above, the sea resumed its reverend tide. Her hat was hopelessly demode but the fashion was too ridiculous: she refused to wear flower-pots, and would have nothing to do with feathery things she had not shot herself.”
― Jamie O'Neill, quote from At Swim, Two Boys
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