“There is nothing of God or Light in that heartless sound - it is all black winter and dark ice.”
“To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.”
“...everywhere and nowhere as the March wind begin to rise and moan like a dead Berserker winding his horn, it drifted on the wind, lonely and savage.”
“Supuso que no habría ninguna ley que prohibiera a un dragón respirar en silencio.”
“Die Wahrheit ist, daß Marty seinen Vater Herman Coslaw ein wenig nervös macht. Herman lebt in einer Welt äußerst aktiver Kinder, Kinder, die rennen und toben und Basebälle wegschmettern und Staffelwettschwimmen veranstalten. Und während er diese sportlichen Aktivitäten überwacht, schaut er gelegentlich auf und sieht Marty irgendwo in der Nähe in seinem Rollstuhl sitzen und den anderen Kindern zuschauen. Das hatte Herman schon immer nervös gemacht.”
“Liebe wäre wie Rosen in der Dämmerung
(...)
Liebe ist wie Sterben”
“Dieses herzlose Lied des Sturmes spottet Gott und dem Licht — es kündet von schwarzem Winter und dunklem Eis.”
“El amor debe ser como un beso al atardecer..., como el último beso, el auténtico, el verdadero, al término de las historias románticas de la colección Arlequín... ¡El amor debe ser como un aroma de rosas a la hr del crepúsculo!”
“El amor será como el áspero roce de la mejilla de un hombre que araña y rasca...”
“Er hatte in Vietnam gekämpft und war mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden; er hatte erfolgreich längere Beziehungen zu einigen energischen Frauen vermieden; und jetzt sah er sich von seinem elfjährigen Neffen in die Enge getrieben.”
“Nun, das ist unwichtig. Er ist schlauer, als sie denken. Sie sprechen von einem Mann-Wolf, aber sie denken immer nur an den Wolf, nicht an den Mann.”
“إن الحب جميل، كأنه الزهور في ضوء الشفق.”
“We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.”
“What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed up against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. Your own skin like a map, a diagram of futility, criscrossed with tiny roads that lead nowhere. Otherwise you live in the moment. Which is not where I want to be.”
“This is hardly love.”
“Then it’s hardly lust.”
“Then we’ll just call it us.”
“Here we go," the Skull sighed. "Cue crisis!”
“this thought has met with the fate of many other useful projects, of being applauded and neglected.”
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