“A queen bows to no one, especially to her king.”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“She always felt whatever I felt. I always felt whatever she did. Fuck everyone else. It was me and her”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“For the supporters of the Dark Romance Revolution. I adore your black hearts”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would become a mighty stranger”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“Use the darkness that lives inside you”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“Unleash the anger only on those who deserve it. Let it build within your heart like a well swelling with water . . . then unleash hell on those who took your freedom”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“A path of destruction no one saw coming; the sweetest, most violent deaths carried out with the gentlest of smiles on our faces and the utmost hell in our hearts”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“You’re just a couple of sick fucks”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“I would fucking end them all. And I knew that I’d enjoy it”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“Because I want to watch it die”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“You were born to stand by my side in Wonderland”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“I live in shade. You don’t. You live in the light . . . now change”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“May the devil be firmly on your side”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“Soulmates forged in fire, under the watchful gaze of Satan’s mocking eyes”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“What she didn’t realize was that she was a fucking queen. My blood-soaked queen”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“My little Dolly wasn’t my fucking slave. She was my goddess, a fucking titan”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“Standing before her king like the royalty she was. My queen of the dark”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“You ain’t like everyone else. I couldn’t give a fuck about anyone else. Not a single fucking soul . . . only you”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“Because you’re my favorite person ever. Ever that has ever existed in all the world”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“I didn’t like what the liquor was doing to me. I didn’t like not being in control”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“Sick fuck after sick fuck after sick fuck”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“You’re a young man now, not a child. Question is, what are you gonna do to earn your keep? To pay back what is owed? It’s a man’s duty to never be in debt”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“We plan and we scheme. We plan for the day we once again see the sun and seek revenge on those who thought they could hide us from the world”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“But I wouldn’t cry. I didn’t think I knew how to”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“I never felt anything. Nothing, save the urge to kill and destroy those who destroyed us”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“I had no idea if my only reason for living could be saved”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“My heart was severed completely, the two parts of its flesh repelling the other, trying to escape the rage and pain and fucking consuming darkness”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“I had never felt fear before, but I imagined the sinking hole I felt dropping in my stomach was something like it”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“As I ran, I fixed my hat back on my head and thought, The Mad Hatter. After all this time . . . . . . finally”
― Tillie Cole, quote from Sick Fux
“But, I didn't have a clue what it was really like, how terribly cruel and mean and judgmental people could be”
― Siobhan Vivian, quote from Not That Kind of Girl
“According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha Gotama is not merely one unique individual who puts in an unprecedented appearance on the stage of human history and then bows out forever. He is, rather, the fulfillment of a primordial archetype, the most recent member of a cosmic “dynasty” of Buddhas constituted by numberless Perfectly Enlightened Ones of the past and sustained by Perfectly Enlightened Ones continuing indefinitely onward into the future. Early Buddhism, even in the archaic root texts of the Nikāyas, already recognizes a plurality of Buddhas who all conform to certain fixed patterns of behavior, the broad outlines of which are described in the opening sections of the Mahāpadāna Sutta (Dīgha Nikāya 14, not represented in the present anthology). The word “Tathāgata,” which the texts use as an epithet for a Buddha, points to this fulfillment of a primordial archetype. The word means both “the one who has come thus” (tath̄ ̄gata), that is, who has come into our midst in the same way that the Buddhas of the past have come; and “the one who has gone thus” (tath̄ gata), that is, who has gone to the ultimate peace, Nibbāna, in the same way that the Buddhas of the past have gone.”
― Bhikkhu Bodhi, quote from In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
“agents shall be recruited from orphans. They shall be trained in the following techniques: interpretation of signs and marks, palmistry and similar techniques of interpreting body marks, magic and illusions, the duties of the ashramas, the stages of life, and the science of omens and augury. Alternatively, they can be trained in physiology and sociology, the art of men and society.”
― Tarquin Hall, quote from The Case of the Missing Servant
“I realized that sharing does not necessarily mean the giving of money or goods; there are times that the greatest gift is to set aside one’s own troubles and listen, to care about another’s heartache.”
― Jean Sasson, quote from Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World
“History may well be a series of stories we tell about the past, but the stories are not just any stories. They're not chosen by chance. By and large, the stories are about famous men and celebrated events. We throw in a couple of exceptional women every now and then, not out of any need to recognize female eminence, but out of embarrassment.”
― Thomas King, quote from The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
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