“Moving closer to the edge, I peered down. The water was glassy green, extraordinarily clear. I experienced the feeling I sometimes get when I'm on a bridge or a railway platform. Rationally, you know that you've no intention of stepping off the bridge or the platform - or this ice floe - but you're aware that you could, and that the only thing stopping you is your will.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“If you're warm enough when you set out, you're wearing too many clothes.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“I wondered what it must be like to be so handsome. Surely it would affect the behavior of everyone around you, always?”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“And yet I think I now understand the impulse which drives men to shoot bears. It isn't for the pelt or the meat or the sport - or not only those things. I think they need to do it. They need to kill that great Arctic totem to give them some sense of control over the wilderness - even if that is only an illusion.”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“I’m twenty-eight years old and I hate my life. I never have the time or the energy to work out how to change it. On Sundays I trail round a museum to keep warm, or lose myself in a library book, or fiddle with the wireless. But Monday’s already looming. And always I’ve got this panicky feeling inside, because I know I’m getting nowhere, just keeping myself alive. Tacked”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end. I”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“Never been so intensely watched by a creature who would kill me if it got the chance. I stared at it, and I felt death staring back. A”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
“But young as I was, I suspected that a God who allows such cruelty wouldn’t have cared about bringing it to an end.
― Michelle Paver, Dark Matter”
― Michelle Paver, quote from Dark Matter
Michelle Paver
Born place: in Malawi
Born date September 7, 1960
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“He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist’s success depends as much as anything on his powers of detachment, on de-narcissizing himself… Freud… studied his own dreams not because he was a “narcissist,” but because he was a student of dreams. And whose were at once the least and most accessible of dreams, if not his own?”
― Philip Roth, quote from My Life as a Man
“I can't think when you're in here," he said.
"What do you have to think about?"
"Making!”
― Judy Blume, quote from Superfudge
“And as they shook hands, he almost told Bishop about the little voice in his head that was whispering, He'll find Miranda. But not yet. Not just yet.
Then he saw the flicker in Bishop's pale eyes, and realized that the telepath had read him and his little voice. But he hadn't needed a seer to tell him what he was utterly convinced of. He would find his Miranda. Sooner or later.
Quentin wondered if he would be so lucky with the end of his own troubled quest.”
― Kay Hooper, quote from Chill of Fear
“Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.”
― Harlan Coben, quote from Deal Breaker
“When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.”
― Julie Klassen, quote from The Silent Governess
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