Quotes from Belly Up

Stuart Gibbs ·  294 pages

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“Mickey Mouse is just a rat in suspenders.”
― Stuart Gibbs, quote from Belly Up


“It’s as though I went down to Disneyland and assassinated Mickey Mouse.”
― Stuart Gibbs, quote from Belly Up


“all, humans had a history of behaving badly in order to make a buck.”
― Stuart Gibbs, quote from Belly Up


About the author

Stuart Gibbs
Born date May 12, 2018
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“She had had insomnia badly when she was fresh from Home.... She had had only occasional bad nights since then. Bad? she thought. Why bad? I rarely feel much the worse the next day, except for a sort of moral irritability that seems to go with the feeling that I ought to have spent all those silent hours asleep.”
― Robin McKinley, quote from The Blue Sword


“Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit.
It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers.
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers--and spirit itself will stink.
Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it even becometh populace.
He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
In the mountains the shortest way is from peak to peak, but for that route thou must have long legs. Proverbs should be peaks, and those spoken to should be big and tall.
The atmosphere rare and pure, danger near and the spirit full of a joyful wickedness: thus are things well matched.
I want to have goblins about me, for I am courageous. The courage which scareth away ghosts, createth for itself goblins--it wanteth to laugh.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, quote from Thus Spoke Zarathustra


“But even things that heal leave scars.”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from An Echo in the Bone


“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?”
― John le Carré, quote from The Spy Who Came In from the Cold


“When you love someone, its never over. You move on, because you have to but you take them with you in your heart”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Kissed by an Angel/The Power of Love/Soulmates


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