“His eyes blazed at me, but it was the best kind of heat. He smiled, and for the first time in my life I believed that, for him, I could be more than I’d ever dreamed.”
― Garrett Leigh, quote from Slide
“I wanted to wrap my bones around him and never let go.”
― Garrett Leigh, quote from Slide
“Ash only had one tattoo on his body--the wizard he'd etched on himself. From whatever angle I looked, it seemed like its throat had been cut.”
― Garrett Leigh, quote from Slide
“For the first time in my life, home was where my heart was, and I'd left my heart in Chicago.”
― Garrett Leigh, quote from Slide
“You know you’re loudest when you don’t say anything at all?”
― Garrett Leigh, quote from Slide
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“On London Tonight, on television right now, a reporter is standing in front of a building that is under construction. It’s windy, and the wind has pressed the fabric of his slacks against his body, outlining his penis. You can see everything—the length and width and the fact that he’s uncut and hangs to the right. But I bet none of the viewers even noticed. In America, there would be letters to the station. There would be a lawsuit because a child was watching. The headlines would dub the reporter “Anchor of Shame” and he’d be fired. When our own Greta Van Susteren got her eyes done, it was front-page news for a week. So you can be sure, if Anderson Cooper’s penis were to be visible in outline beneath his trousers, he’d be on the cover of People, Vanity Fair, and The New York Times. We are obsessed with sex in an unnatural way.”
― Augusten Burroughs, quote from Possible Side Effects
“I have learned to fail. And I have had my say.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, quote from Collected Poems
“I lay for a long time in silence, staring at the ceiling. Was my life always to be like this? I wondered. Was it going to go, forever, in an instant, from sunshine to shadow? From pandemonium to loneliness? From fierce anger to a fiercer kind of love?”
― Alan Bradley, quote from I Am Half-Sick of Shadows
“Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix.”
― Jasper Fforde, quote from The Last Dragonslayer
“А паметта продължаваше да живее. Той виждаше сега не госпожа Оота, а залеза, който видя от прозореца на вагона, вече на път за в къщи, след нощта в камакурския хотел. Зад стъклото изплува очарователното очертание на храма Хоммон-дзи в Икегами. Слънцето — червено и кръгло като топка, бавно се спускаше от клон на клон. Короните бяха съвсем черни и релефно се очертаваха на фона на заревото. Провиращите се между клоните лъчи на залязващото слънце заслепяваха очите на Кикудзи и той ги затвори. И тогава у него се появи усещането, че хилядата бели жерави, изпърхали от розовата фурашики на Юкико и прелетели през багровочервения залез, влетяха под неговите плътно затворени клепачи.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from Thousand Cranes
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