“You taste like sin—the best kind imaginable.”
― Emily Snow, quote from Consumed
“You—you’re what’s important. Music will never be more important than you.”
― Emily Snow, quote from Consumed
“I devour her. And she consumes me.”
― Emily Snow, quote from Consumed
“Because you couldn’t keep those hands of yours out of my fucking hair the last time I had you to myself.”
― Emily Snow, quote from Consumed
“And at this point, do you think a give a fuck anymore? I looked out for me and only me for years, and then you came along. You made me feel things. And when I laid here after I came back from seeing you beat up and broken because of me, I stopped caring what happens to me.”
― Emily Snow, quote from Consumed
“Sinjin "Either you have a question about your loud boyfriend - yeah, I fucking heard everything this morning, and I honestly feel well acquainted with your pussy ...”
― Emily Snow, quote from Consumed
“And that must end us, that must be our cure:
To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose,
Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost
In the wide womb of uncreated night
Devoid of sense and motion?”
― John Milton, quote from Paradise Lost
“Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.”
― Voltaire, quote from Candide
“Children are most impressed with the importance of a moment when they witness a parent breaking the parents' own rule.”
― John Irving, quote from The Cider House Rules
“You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am.”
― Tim O'Brien, quote from The Things They Carried
“There ‘s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, ‘t is not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. Since no man has aught of what he leaves, what is ‘t to leave betimes? Hamlet. V.2”
― William Shakespeare, quote from The Complete Works
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