“Kara knew all he recognized was T and A on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy puppeeter , so long as there were souls for sale he was ready to buy ..”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Just a bullet a bag and a dream that's all I had now look at what I got”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Kara didn't feel like a dial and go coke pusher but she was a supremely good hustler”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Pudge was quivering like a weeble toy likely to topple over any second”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Mr Davis was a middle class tremble of a man worried about an unseemly display and his Jerry Springer moment”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Josh had a movie star jewfro and a smug little grin”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Talent by association made him nauseous”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“All's fair in love and litigation”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“Kara knew je only recognised t and a on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy pupeeter”
― Saira Viola, quote from Crack Apple And Pop!
“I should have told you I loved you every day. I should have given you the stars.”
― Amie Kaufman, quote from Illuminae
“For I am—or I was—one of those people who pride themselves in on their willpower, on their ability to make a decision and carry it through. This virtue, like most virtues, is ambiguity itself. People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. Their decisions are not really decisions at all—a real decision makes one humble, one knows that it is at the mercy of more things than can be named—but elaborate systems of evasion, of illusion, designed to make themselves and the world appear to be what they and the world are not. This is certainly what my decision, made so long ago in Joey’s bed, came to. I had decided to allow no room in the universe for something which shamed and frightened me. I succeeded very well—by not looking at the universe, by not looking at myself, by remaining, in effect, in constant motion.”
― James Baldwin, quote from Giovanni's Room
“You don’t love people for what they can give you. You don’t love them because of what they do for you or how good you make them look. Love is blind, love does not boast, love is not vain.”
― Shelly Crane, quote from Significance
“You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices'
The visitors again considered it a point of politeness to look at Sloppy, who, looking at them, suddenly threw back his head, extended his moth to the utmost width, and laughed loud and long. At this the two innocents, with their brains in that apparent danger, laughed, and Mrs. Higden laughed, and the orphan laughed, and then the visitors laughed. Which was more cheerful than intelligible.”
― Charles Dickens, quote from Our Mutual Friend
“Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?"
"No." I did.
"You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse."
The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland...”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from Ptolemy's Gate
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