“Debbie often talked about Gretchen as if she was his mistress. But to Archie it sometimes felt like the other way around. As if, by moving back in with his ex-wife, he was cheating on Gretchen.
That was probably worthy of bringing up in therapy”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“I like to think of you not being able to end your suffering,' she said.
'I like to think of you not being able to satisfy your blood-lust,' he said.”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“His whole relationship with Gretchen was one long postcoital illusion”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“Gretchen's eyes blazed at Henry. 'Don't ever think you can know what I'll do”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“a face that looked like it had been whittled out of driftwood.”
― Chelsea Cain, quote from Sweetheart
“I guess the basic difference is that animation is sequential in time but in spatially juxtaposed as comics are.
Each successive frame of a movie is projected on exactly the same space--the screen--while each frame of comics must occupy a different space.
Space does for comics what time does for film!”
― Scott McCloud, quote from Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
“Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
“Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, quote from The Hummingbird's Daughter
“Jennifer, you have to wake up and ride me”
― Quinn Loftis, quote from Out of the Dark
“What matter the colour of the collar around a man’s neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?”
― Steven Erikson, quote from House of Chains
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