“I'm tired of the whole anti gun thing. Saying that Guns cause Murders is like saying Steering Wheels cause car wrecks”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I admit I have Mental Illness so please no more 'Fruit Cakes' for Christmas Please”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Just to let you know I don't post my books and things on the net in hopes of being rich. The reason is. "I am a person with Bipolar Disorder" and they're are a lot of great minds on the "Famous Bipolar" list that died penniless. If I do the same it's no big deal but having a form of mental Illness I would love to get my name on the Bipolar list also one day. Preferably while I'm still living so I can make sure they spelled it right”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Look at the world and think about a catastrophic disaster where the cell phone towers went dead. How would you ever be able to 'TEXT" your next door neighbor to see if they were okay”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Often when it comes to friends. When the rubber hits the road you'll find yourself hitch hiking”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there's a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“If you like me 'Fine' if you hate me 'Fine' I'll write you out of my life. It's as simple as Over,Done Forgotten Gone”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“ There is nothing more beautiful than the light of a Candle and the Aroma of it's Heart”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“ I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“After seeing the devastation on the East coast. I've concluded that Sticks and Stone might break our bones. But Mother Nature can really tear up your stuff,”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“If you surround yourself with people that fill in your inadequacies then together you fulfill the world.”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“It's two A.M. "To sleep or to write that is the question?" Whether it tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of my piss poor punctuation or take arms against a sea of keys with so many new possibilities.”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“A few years ago a friend said that I use to hunt and fish and build houses and things but now my whole life revolved around my computer I replied "But my computer revolves around the world”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“If it has a name or a description it has or will exist at some point in time”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Hopefully one day wars will only be fought in movies and may the best producer win”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“You ever notice if you call someones cell phone they won't answer but if you text them seconds later they will. "The Power of your Thumbs compels You!”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“I believe in 'Positives' not Negatives the only thing about Alcohol I'm Powerless over is those Damn Taxes”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“You know being and ex serviceman and a Disabled Gulf War Veteran. You could play Taps on a Jews Harp and I'd still cry”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“Theirs two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying”
― quote from Return to Stantasyland
“He started to engage the gears, and then suddenly paused with a feeling of uneasiness. He did not regret leaving his own car, but still something worried him. In a moment he remembered. He went back to his old car, and took out the hammer. He carries it over to the station wagon and laid it at his feet. Then he drove out of the garage.”
― George R. Stewart, quote from Earth Abides
“While dragging herself up she had to hang onto the rail. Her twisted progress was that of a cripple. Once on the open deck she felt the solid impact of the black night, and the mobility of the accidental home she was about to leave.
Although Lucette had never died before—no, dived before, Violet—from such a height, in such a disorder of shadows and snaking reflections, she went with hardly a splash through the wave that humped to welcome her. That perfect end was spoiled by her instinctively surfacing in an immediate sweep — instead of surrendering under water to her drugged lassitude as she had planned to do on her last night ashore if it ever did come to this. The silly girl had not rehearsed the technique of suicide as, say, free-fall parachutists do every day in the element of another chapter.
Owing to the tumultuous swell and her not being sure which way to peer through the spray and the darkness and her own tentaclinging hair—t,a,c,l—she could not make out the lights of the liner, an easily imagined many-eyed bulk mightily receding in heartless triumph. Now I’ve lost my next note.
Got it.
The sky was also heartless and dark, and her body, her head,and particularly those damned thirsty trousers, felt clogged with Oceanus Nox, n,o,x. At every slap and splash of cold wild salt, she heaved with anise-flavored nausea and there was an increasing number, okay, or numbness, in her neck and arms. As she began losing track of herself, she thought it proper to inform a series of receding Lucettes—telling them to pass it on and on in a trick-crystal regression—that what death amounted to was only a more complete assortment of the infinite fractions of solitude.
She did not see her whole life flash before her as we all were afraid she might have done; the red rubber of a favorite doll remained safely decomposed among the myosotes of an un-analyzable brook; but she did see a few odds and ends as she swam like a dilettante Tobakoff in a circle of brief panic and merciful torpor. She saw a pair of new vairfurred bedroom slippers, which Brigitte had forgotten to pack; she saw Van wiping his mouth before answering, and then, still withholding the answer, throwing his napkin on the table as they both got up; and she saw a girl with long black hair quickly bend in passing to clap her hands over a dackel in a half-tom wreath.
A brilliantly illumined motorboat was launched from the not-too-distant ship with Van and the swimming coach and the oilskin-hooded Toby among the would-be saviors; but by that time a lot of sea had rolled by and Lucette was too tired to wait. Then the night was filled with the rattle of an old but still strong helicopter. Its diligent beam could spot only the dark head of Van, who, having been propelled out of the boat when it shied from its own sudden shadow, kept bobbing and bawling the drowned girl’s name in the black, foam-veined, complicated waters.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, quote from Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
“Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.”
― Christopher Moore, quote from Fool
“Lucius needs you. He mourns you. He loves you. It's very unusual for a vampire to truly love. Some hold that real love between vampires is a myth. That we are too vicious by nature.But Lucius does. He loves you--as you love him.”
― Beth Fantaskey, quote from Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side
“she thought I could find a way to save her soul when she died and became an undead. Right now, I was just looking to find the rent money. I’d get to my roommate’s soul later.”
― Kim Harrison, quote from White Witch, Black Curse
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