“Marcus, even in this darkness, I try to swim back to you.
I swear, I do.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“Sometimes there is a darkness you can hear, a swallowing of your senses that blots out everything going on in the world around you, leaving only the chaos colliding and exploding in you own head. -- Olivia”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“But can’t we do that with our clothes on?”
“We could,” he said, giving me that cocky grin of his. “But where’s the fun in that?”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“Money talks. And throwing that money around shuts everyone else up.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“Do you only think you love me? Are you pretty sure you love me? Or are you absolutely positive?” I asked. “Because it’s kind of an important distinction.”
“I think I’m pretty positive I love you.” He grinned down at me.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“I think you've had a very hard life," Passion said calmly, "and you see everyone and everthing through a lens of mistrust." - Passion to Marcus”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“You know when someone says, 'no offense,' I pointed out to him, 'the thing they say directly after that is always offensive”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“I Sat back in the chair, surveying the view in front of me like some savvy superhero, safe in her secret lair.
& that's when I saw it; a shadow slipping across the lower corner of camera seventeen.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
“After all, eyes are the windows to the soul. But Renzo had a bit too much soul in his eye.”
― Ripley Patton, quote from Ghost Hold
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“So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.”
― Leif Enger, quote from Peace Like a River
“Where have you been?" she cried. "Damn you, where have you been?" She took a few steps toward Schmendrick, but she was looking beyond him, at the unicorn.
When she tried to get by, the magician stood in her way. "You don't talk like that," he told her, still uncertain that Molly had recognized the unicorn. "Don't you know how to behave, woman? You don't curtsy, either."
But Molly pushed him aside and went up to the unicorn, scolding her as though she were a strayed milk cow. "Where have you been?" Before the whiteness and the shining horn, Molly shrank to a shrilling beetle, but this time it was the unicorn's old dark eyes that looked down.
"I am here now," she said at last.
Molly laughed with her lips flat. "And what good is it to me that you're here now? Where where you twenty years ago, ten years ago? How dare you, how dare you come to me now, when I am this?" With a flap of her hand she summed herself up: barren face, desert eyes, and yellowing heart. "I wish you had never come. Why did you come now?" The tears began to slide down the sides of her nose.
The unicorn made no reply, and Schmendrick said, "She is the last. She is the last unicorn in the world."
"She would be." Molly sniffed. "It would be the last unicorn in the world to come to Molly Grue." She reached up then to lay her hand on the unicorn's cheek; but both of them flinched a little, and the touch came to rest on on the swift, shivering place under the jaw. Molly said, "It's all right. I forgive you.”
― Peter S. Beagle, quote from The Last Unicorn
“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Julius Caesar
“What is your name?" she murmured.
He cocked an eyebrow at her and then went back to staring at his brother. "I'm the evil one, in case you haven't figured it out."
"I wanted your name, not your calling."
"Being a bastard's more of a compulsion, really. And it's Zsadist. I am Zsadist.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Lover Eternal
“My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.”
― Abraham Verghese, quote from Cutting for Stone
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