“Humming the Star Wars theme to encourage myself, I wobbled onto my feet. Sometimes a girl's gotta provide her own trumpet-heavy heroic soundtrack.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“In Gotham, batman just stumbles into crime," said Luther. "Salt lake is annoyingly tame.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like."
--Dangerous by Shannon Hale”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“You'd better not talk about microscopes anymore," he whispered, "or I don't know if I can control myself.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“Why did everyone else seem fine but I felt as if I were living in a cage I'd outgrown two shoe sizes ago?”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“And this is where I'll end, before I know what happens next.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“Life feels like fall of itself.”
“'A dream within a dream.”
“And I want to wake up.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“Generally speaking, if a guy breaks your jaw and leg and cuts off your robotic arm, you file charges and get a restraining order. The only exception is when subtle machinations are needed to save the world from a massive, catastrophic alien takeover. But in no other circumstance.”
― Shannon Hale, quote from Dangerous
“¨Yet the one I think of most often_¨”
― Billy Collins, quote from Picnic, Lightning
“We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.”
― Erica Jong, quote from Fear of Flying
“Her gaze met his. "What do you want more than anything?"
Right now, he felt like he could gaze into her green eyes for a century or two. They were amazing, the way they flared with anger, twinkled with humor, or softened with compassion. "I want to be loved, honestly and truly loved, for who I am. And I want to love a woman with all my heart for all my life. I want to ache for her mind, for her body, for her companionship."
Her eyes widened. "Oh." (Toni & Ian)”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, quote from All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire
“Tarzan hungry, dijo el Mumintroll trepando una liana. Tarzan eat now!
¿Qué dice?, preguntó Snif
Dice que ahora va a comer, dijo la señorita Snork. Verás, es lo único que sabe hacer. Habla en inglés como todos los que viven en la selva.”
― Tove Jansson, quote from Finn Family Moomintroll
“They met near the southern limit of the establishment grounds and for a while they spoke in an abbreviated and Aesopic language. They understood each other well, with many decades of communication behind them, and it was not necessary for them to involve themselves in all the elaboration's of human speech.
Daneel said in an all but unhearable whisper, "Clouds. Unseen."
Had Daneel been speaking for human ears, he would have said, "As you see, friend Giskard, the sky has clouded up. Had Madam Gladia waited her chance to see Solaria, she would not, in any case, have succeeded."
And Giskard's reply of "Predicted. Interview, rather," was the equivalent of "So much was predicted in the weather forecast, friend Daneel, and might have been used as an excuse to get Madam Gladia to bed early. It seemed to me to be more important, however, to meet the problem squarely and to persuade her to permit this interview I have already told you about.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Robots and Empire
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