“I threatened him with bodily harm. He promised to bring me cake for the rest of my life.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Would it help if I performed an interpretive dance while I said the words?”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“all the teachers at this school attack their students? Or are you just a raving bitch?”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Ferrin looked at her like she had two heads. “You don’t want to marry my son?” “Hell. No.” He resumed his seat. “That’s the first sensible thing I’ve heard you say.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Jaxon gave me a compliment. I was sure there’d be winged pigs up there somewhere.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“Did her dragon nature make her more violent? She’d never fantasized death for anyone before. Then again, she’d never met someone like Ferrin.”
― Chris Cannon, quote from Going Down in Flames
“we may face numerous problems seeming to contradict God’s plan, these shouldn’t be barriers but opportunities to turn a negative into a positive. It’s”
― Jamie Ayres, quote from 18 Things
“a poem called “The Night Before Doom”: “ ’Twas the night before Doom, / and all through the house, / I had set up my multi-playing networks, / each with a mouse. / The networks were strung, / with extra special care / in hopes that Doom, / soon would be there.” The publisher of a computer magazine had a darker vision he printed in an editorial called “A Parent’s Nightmare Before Christmas”: “By the time your kids are tucked in and dreaming of sugar plums, they may have seen the latest in sensational computer games . . . Doom.”
― quote from Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
“He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.”
― John Corey Whaley, quote from Highly Illogical Behavior
“Children are the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.”
― A.R. Torre, quote from The Girl in 6E
“To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach out to those we love, to see in them all the divinity, pity, and pathos of the human. And to recognize love in the lives of others - even those with whom we are in conflict - love that is like our own. It does not mean we will avoid war or death. It does not mean that we as distinct individuals will survive. But love, in its mystery, has its own power. It alone gives us meaning that endures. I alone allows us to embrace and cherish life. Love as power both to resist in our nature what we know we we must resist, and to affirm what we know we must affirm. And love, as the poets remind us, is eternal.”
― Chris Hedges, quote from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
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