“It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn’t, and we weren’t.”
― Scott Heim, quote from Mysterious Skin
“He spoke so slowly, cobwebs could have formed between his words.”
― Scott Heim, quote from Mysterious Skin
“I hate this stinking little butt crack of a town!”
― Scott Heim, quote from Mysterious Skin
“It was Brian's blood, and for some reason I knew it was pure. No other man I'd held in my arms -and now, not even I- had blood this pure.”
― Scott Heim, quote from Mysterious Skin
“Defenestration,” I said. “‘The act of throwing someone through a window.”
― Scott Heim, quote from Mysterious Skin
“How in the world can you think a queer is cute? I mean, you can tell he’s a freak. You can just tell.” I advised Zelda that if she didn’t shut up, I’d gouge out her eyes and force her to swallow them.”
― Scott Heim, quote from Mysterious Skin
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“I hardly knew what to do. I wanted, of course, to rush down to Washington Square and grip the poor blighter silently by the hand; and then, thinking it over, I hadn't the nerve. Absent treatment seemed the touch. I gave it him in waves.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from My Man Jeeves
“To be sensitive is fine, but it makes day-to-day living- life -rather painful.”
― Marisha Pessl, quote from Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“I don't think they're coming. Why must I stand here in the wind and rain?'
'Because it pleases me', Kennit snapped at him.
Wintrow thought to intervene. 'You can have my cloak, if you like'. he offered.
The Satrap scowled. 'It's dripping wet. What good would that do me?'
'You could be wetter', Kennit snarled.”
― Robin Hobb, quote from Ship of Destiny
“The happiness of writers is the thought that can be entirely emotion and the emotion that can be entirely thought. Such a pulsing thought, such a”
― Thomas Mann, quote from Death in Venice
“―We could be dead- said Eli.
―That‘s a risk everyone takes by living.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from Vicious
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