“Maybe, to do what you and I do, we have to have a little bit of the monster in us.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Killer Instinct
“It's not the bad memories that tear a person apart. It's the good ones.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Killer Instinct
“When the odds are bad, you change the rules.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Killer Instinct
“Sterling turned to Michael. I expected her to ask him something, but instead she just held out her hand. "Keys."
"Spatula," Michael replied. She narrowed her eyes at him. "We aren't just saying random nouns?" he asked archly.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Killer Instinct
“None of us had normal childhoods," Sloane said quietly. "If we had, we wouldn't be Naturals.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from Killer Instinct
“It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep”
― James Frey, quote from A Million Little Pieces
“In the beginning the Universe was created.
This had made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, quote from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the pain I felt at seeing his mouth on hers.”
― Jeaniene Frost, quote from One Foot in the Grave
“Just one question, you arrogant fucking cocksucker" said Locke. "I'll grant the Lamora part is easy to spot; the truth is, I didn't know about the apt translation when I took the name. I borrowed it from this old sausage dealer who was kind to me once, back in Catchfire before the plague. I just liked the way it sounded.
"But what the fuck" he said slowly, "ever gave you the idea that Locke was the first name I was actually born with?”
― Scott Lynch, quote from The Lies of Locke Lamora
“She saw now that she could not tell him about the books she had loved any more than she could make him see the palm trees swaying under a brilliant blue sky.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, quote from The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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