“(pg.31)
"As it was, my first days on Earth were somewhat anticlimactic. Mother and Father seemed so happy tempting and corrupting that I didn't want to interrupt them. But the fact was that I hadn't the slightest clue what to do with myself. I tried to convince cows to take over the world, to rampage across the fields slaughtering all in their wake, to start a new religion of udder worship, to build cities devoted to the consumption of grass, their aqueducts running with fresh milk. I even prepared a pictorial presentation of cows traveling into outer space aboard butter-powered space churns, but the cows seemed unconvinced, and soon returned to wondering how many stomachs they had. The current belief was seventeen. Cows:Unambitious.”
― quote from Death: A Life
“Why, hello, Death. Long time no see. As you can see, I just couldn't stay away. The creeping things called out to Me. Anyway, what brings you here?- God”
― quote from Death: A Life
“It can safely be said that no one has touched more lives, more deeply, than Death. Through this devastating memoir, it is hoped he will touch many, many more.”
― quote from Death: A Life
“Similarly the animal psychologist, Aristophanes, accidentally discovered the world's first joke while inquiring into the hitherto mysterious motivations of pathway-traversing fowl.”
― quote from Death: A Life
“Those whom the gods would destroy, they first make proud, Foley thought.”
― Tom Clancy, quote from The Cardinal of the Kremlin
“He insisted we sleep together, I insisted we didn’t.
I won.”
― Sherry Gammon, quote from Unlovable
“- С тех пор как Луна, бледная странница, кружит по небосклону, - продолжал иудей, - пребываю я в мире сем. Мне суждено было узреть первых людишек - подобные обезьянам, они приходили из древа и уходили во древо, из колыбели во гроб. И по сей день люди как обезьяны, и в руках у них по-прежнему топор. потухший взор их обращен вниз, в бесконечность, коя сокрыта в малом, - там, в непроглядной бездне, тщатся они дно обрящить. Итак, познали они, что в чреве самого ничтожного червя обитают миллионы крошечных существ, а в тех в свой черед - миллиарды еще более крошечных, однако всё еще невдомек пытливым исследователям, что эдак им конца во веки веком не сыскать. И хотя взору моему отверсты обе бездны, и верхняя и нижняя, да и слезы свои я давным-давно повыплакал, но, все едино, смеяться так и не научился...”
― Gustav Meyrink, quote from The Golem
“As he fell to the ground with a panicked scream,”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Family
“...the summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching in the night. You could see silvery cocoon webbing in porch rafter and strung across stop signs.”
― Alice Hoffman, quote from The Story Sisters
Shadow Souls
Horton Hears a Who!
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Never Fade
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