“Everybody hears whispered gossip and rumors clear across town. But nobody hears the scream next door.”
― Graham McNamee, quote from Bonechiller
“Gotta keep an eye on those terrorist polar bears, and make sure Santa's elves aren't planning a holy war.”
― Graham McNamee, quote from Bonechiller
“But he's a missing person nobody's going to miss much.”
― Graham McNamee, quote from Bonechiller
“You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.”
― Graham McNamee, quote from Bonechiller
“The end of the world hurts like a bitch.”
― Graham McNamee, quote from Bonechiller
“Moving into the hallway, I make the mistake of looking down. The floor seems to drop out from under me, with nothing solid to support me but my own reflection.
I take a step, watching the sole of my bare left foot meet its twin rising up on the flipside. I get the weirdest sensation that I won't fall as long as I have the reversed images of my own feet to walk on.”
― Graham McNamee, quote from Bonechiller
Graham McNamee
Born place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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“Tigana, let my memory of
you be like a blade in my
soul.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from Tigana
“This kind of thing doesn't seem to bother most people. Given the chance, people are surprisingly frank when they talk about themselves. "I'm honest and open to a ridiculous degree," they'll say, or "I'm thin-skinned and not the type who gets along easily in the world." Or "I am very good at sensing others' true feelings." But any number of times I've seen people who say they're easily hurt hurt other people for no apparent reason. Self-styled honest and open people, without realizing what they're doing, blithely use some self-serving excuse to get what they want. And those "good at sensing others' true feelings" are duped by the most transparent flattery. It's enough to make me ask the question: How well do we really know ourselves?”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from Sputnik Sweetheart
“Nothing bothers me more in this world than a person who behaves as a sheep and not as a dragon.”
― Melodie Ramone, quote from After Forever Ends
“I have really done so few bad things that they have to keep harping on the old ones [.]”
― L.M. Montgomery, quote from The Blue Castle
“A man--Buck--wrote a vindication in the seventeenth-century, and Horace Walpole in the eighteenth, and someone named Markham in the nineteenth ... "
"And who in the twentieth?"
"No one that I know of."
"Then what's wrong with your doing it?"
"But it wont' be the same, don't you see? It won't be a great discovery."
He said it in capitals. A GREAT DISCOVERY.
Grant smiled at him.
"Oh, come, you can't expect to pick GREAT DISCOVERIES off bushes. If you can't be a pioneer what's wrong with leading a crusade?"
"A crusade?
"Certainly."
"Against what?"
"Tonypandy.”
― Josephine Tey, quote from The Daughter of Time
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