“When in doubt keep reading. A book will never die on you”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
“Roll call. (We have to start every day with this just to check nobody has run away or died in their beds.)”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
“So, Milton,” he said, “welcome to paradise lost.”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
“(I can't believe this beautiful woman who looks like a forest fairy could have married Sparerib.) Boggs rates her breasts as incredible. I must admit they are impressive.”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
“Mad Dog hasn’t spent much time in the dormitory and seems to do a lot of hunting.”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
“school). He has a very posh English accent and strides around with a walking stick, swearing like a maniac.”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
“When I leave school I will drive around looking for prostitutes like Julia.”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
“I thought about my friend and wondered if his ghost was here with Macarthur. Or maybe they were in heaven somewhere watching me sing with Gecko telling the old man he was getting goosebumps.”
― John van de Ruit, quote from Spud
John van de Ruit
Born place: in Durban, South Africa
Born date April 19, 1975
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“Their lips met with a tenderness Kate had not dreamed possible. The weeks of heart-break and uncertainty, the pain of wasted days, and the despair of unfulfilled dreams released her like winter surrenders its ruthless grip on the frozen earth in early spring. Did every kiss hold such promise?”
― Jennifer Beckstrand, quote from Kate's Song
“I’ve never had this problem, but that damn Russian brought his big ole penis into bed with me and now no other man even measures up!”
― Toni Aleo, quote from Taking Shots
“Every day time stopped and Sobran saw Xas, the sun reflecting off his raised wings, white chest watermarked by tears dried in fine dust; bare skin and colourless nipples, as innocent as a child's; the double signature, seagreen and vermilion, awake and vivid; a whitelipped white face and eyes, abysmal, inimical, like the sea seen through holes in an icefield. It was like being in love, this remembering, because Sobran couldn't put Xas out of his mind. And it was like shame. Because he grew so tired defending himself from the pain of this one recollection, Sobran forgot everything else he knew about the angel.”
― Elizabeth Knox, quote from The Vintner's Luck
“Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence the name. I cannot speak. And while I can feel myself freeze up, I can't do anything about it.”
― Sarah Vowell, quote from The Partly Cloudy Patriot
“If they show themselves disposed to accept their proper position I will assist them to start virtuously in life by a present of one hundred pounds each. This sum I authorize you to pay them, on their personal application, with the necessary acknowledgment of receipt; and on the express understanding that the transaction, so completed, is to be the beginning and the end of my connection with them. The”
― Wilkie Collins, quote from No Name
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