“Can you enter a house uninvited?"
"No."
"Why?"
"That would be rude.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“Kidnapped by a vampire, death by a squid. How tragic.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“Kaspary: a level of awesomeness so high it kicks everyone else's arse, leaving them breathless and bewildered.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“P.S. Murders kill for pleasure.
Vampires kill to survive.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“Even if that were so, how could I be happy as a vampire? There is no chance of me actually liking the idea of living forever. It's hopeless!'
Kasper faced straight ahead, glancing in his side mirror.He spoke softly, something like caring in his voice.'You don't know that, Girly! One day you might just find something worth living an eternity for.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“He sighed, his hands tangling themselves in my already-knotted hair. “Violet, don’t ever leave me. Whatever happens; however things get, just don’t go. Please.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“Never thought I'd see this moment, my voice said, full of the same breathlessness I felt as I looked up at him.
Neither did I,I replied.
'Girly?'
'I give up.'
'What?'
I took a deep breath.'I give in to you.' ”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“I knew what I had left behind. The question was: What was I going to find ahead?”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“One day you might just find something worth living an eternity for”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“Handsome and brilliantly rich; their fatal flaw is murder.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“My mind told me he most have had a weapon; my eyes saw none.”
― Abigail Gibbs, quote from Dinner with a Vampire
“...to you, differences are quite unimportant; to me, they are what matters most. I am a scholar by nature; science is my vocation. And science is, to quote your words, nothing but the 'determination to establish differences.' Its essence couldn't be defined more accurately. For us, the men of science, nothing is as important as the establishment of differences; science is the art of differentiation. Discovering in every man that which distinguishes him from others is to know him.”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from Narcissus and Goldmund
“Il passato è latente, è sommerso, ma è ancora lì, in grado di riaffiorare in superficie una volta che lo stampo più tardo sia malauguratamente - e contro l'esperienza ordinaria - scomparso. L'uomo contiene - non il ragazzo - ma gli uomini precedenti, pensò. La storia è cominciata molto tempo fa.
I resti disidratati di Wendy. La progressione di forme che si verifica normalmente... quella progressione era cessata. E l'ultima forma si era consumata, senza nulla che la sostituisse; nessuna nuova forma, nessuno stadio successivo di ciò che ci appare come un processo di crescita, aveva preso il suo posto. Dev'essere questo che si prova nella vecchiaia; da questa assenza vengono degenerazione e senilità. Solo che in questo caso è accaduto tutto in una volta, nell'arco di poche ore.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Ubik
“I never named anything I've written before
no reason to
since
it would all have the same title anyway
-for you-
but I would call this one
one night
that night
when we let the world be only you
and only me
we stood on it while it spun
green and blue and red
the music ended
but we
were still
singing”
― Ally Condie, quote from Crossed
“كلما كانت قطعة الجبن هامة بالنسبة لك, فأنت في حاجة إلى الاحتفاظ بها رغم ماتواجهه من صعاب”
― Spencer Johnson, quote from Who Moved My Cheese?
“Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.”
― Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, quote from Les Liaisons dangereuses
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