“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
“How do you know this?
Because I'm always watching people. When I watch people I too look through them. I learned that from my mother. To glance is not enough; eyes and brains together, acting like a flock of ravenous birds, flapping, tearing, poking... I know everything about people when I look at them for only a moment. I can tell from their clothes, their walks, their hair and hands, I know all the bad things that they've done. I know how they've failed and how they will fail and how miserable they are.”
― Dave Eggers, quote from A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
― Clement C. Moore, quote from The Night Before Christmas
“Roger, listening intently, couldn't keep from asking a question at this point.
Is it true Colonel Stark said 'Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes?'
Lee coughed discreetly.
Well sir. I couldn't say for sure as no one said that, but I didn't hear it myself. Mind, I DID hear one colonel call out, 'Any whoreson fool wastes his powder afore the bastards are close enough to kill is gonna get his musket shoved up his arse butt-first!”
― Diana Gabaldon, quote from A Breath of Snow and Ashes
“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”
― John Fowles, quote from The Magus
“I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart. ”
― Thomas Pynchon, quote from Gravity's Rainbow
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