“Here’s the deal. Willi’s bought the rights to a paperback best-seller called The White Slaver. It’s a piece of formulized shit written for illiterate fourteen-year-olds and the kind of lobotomized housewife that lines up to buy the new Harlequin romances each month. Jack-off material for intellectual quadriplegics. Naturally”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Carrion Comfort
“Here’s the deal. Willi’s bought the rights to a paperback best-seller called The White Slaver. It’s a piece of formulized shit written for illiterate fourteen-year-olds and the kind of lobotomized housewife that lines up to buy the new Harlequin romances each month. Jack-off material for intellectual quadriplegics. Naturally it sold about three million copies. We”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Carrion Comfort
“a degree in psychiatry merely qualifies one to begin learning about the intricacies and foibles of the human personality.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Carrion Comfort
“Don’t you see, Anthony? For all the evangelicals’ talk about this nation being founded on religious principles…this being a Christian nation and all…most of the Founding Fathers were like Jefferson…atheists, pointy-headed intellectuals, Unitarians…”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Carrion Comfort
“He wished he were home in Charleston, listening to the Dave Brubeck Quartet on the stereo and reading Bruce Catton.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Carrion Comfort
“Natalie’s father had a saying for that behavior—Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Carrion Comfort
“All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Carrion Comfort
Dan Simmons
Born place: in Peoria, Illinois, The United States
Born date April 4, 1948
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“He’d said when. Even in his beaten condition, he believed in whens and not ifs. She never should have doubted his strength”
― Veronica Rossi, quote from Into the Still Blue
“Airports and train stations are where you get to cry”
― Karen Joy Fowler, quote from We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
“It takes over—fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you.”
― Nicholas Sparks, quote from See Me
“След няколко кратки ноти, акцентирани в стакато, следва акорд, гласът на мама се промъква сред нотите му, превзема една от тях и отскача до небето: започва се. В накъсан ритъм тя слиза от високите ноти, изпети с разчувстваща нежност, до дълбоките и тъмни води на ниските тонове, които изпява като стенание, сякаш животът я напуска, капка по капка. Понякога прави един шум с устните си, сякаш се отваря капачка, на други места се удря по гърдите с длан, за да подчертае музиката, която се лее от гърлото ѝ. Сякаш гласът ѝ разказва някаква история – не само историята на живота ѝ, но и тази на цялото човечество – войните и глада, битките и изпитанията, победите и пораженията. А понякога гласът ѝ бушува в заплашителни вълни, като океана по време на буря, друг път е като водопад, който се спуска по скалата, подскача по камъните и се втурва разпенен надолу към пищната тъмна долина. Гласът ѝ рисува около главата ми златни кръгове като Сатурнови пръстени, люлее се лудешки отгоре надолу, сякаш танцува френски канкан, жалее и потръпва, увива се около някое е ниско фа като бръшлян около ствол на дърво, след като се гмурва в кристалносините води на акорда в сол мажор, който Питър повтаря неколкократно с лявата си ръка… Във възторг съм. Мама е права: никой никога не е използвал гласа си така.”
― Nancy Huston, quote from Fault Lines
“Shooting stars are not really stars at all but meteorites, burning their way through our atmosphere, sometimes landing in the oceans and in the middle of farms...you could make wishes on them if you like, but they are really just pieces of rock falling down from the sky, and they could land on your head and kill you just as you look up to make a wish. Really, they're just rocks. They don't care about your wishes at all.”
― Laura Moriarty, quote from The Center of Everything
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