“Love isn’t really about what we think of the other person, but how we feel about ourselves when we are with that person.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“That’s the problem with the finite. You can open only one door at a time, and you’ll never know what was behind the door you didn’t open.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“I was happy, and nothing in the world can make you oblivious to your surroundings like happiness.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“Love was love, but art was art and though he mixed the two a little, he never confused them.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“sillage, what remains when all else has left. “Come on,”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
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“It was the responsibility of the living to make meaningful the sacrifices of the dead.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, quote from The Illearth War
“Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.”
― Aimee Bender, quote from The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“Although the ending was more John Carpenter than John Updike, Carroll hadn't come across anything like it in any of the horror magazines, either, not lately. It was, for twenty-five pages, the almost completely naturalistic story of a woman being destroyed a little at a time by the steady wear of survivor's guilt. It concerned itself with tortured family relationships, shitty jobs, the struggle for money. Carroll had forgotten what it was like to come across the bread of everyday life in a short story. Most horror fiction didn't bother with anything except rare bleeding meat. ("Best New Horror")”
― Joe Hill, quote from 20th Century Ghosts
“Muzica nu este niciodată tragică, muzica este bucurie. Dar se întâmplă, inevitabil, ca ea să ne trezească gustul morții, plăcerea de a muri nu atât de bucurie, cât cu bucurie, de a ne stinge. Dar nu în virtutea unui instinct al morții pe care l-ar trezi ea în noi, ci în virtutea unei dimensiuni proprii asamblajului ei sonor, mașinii ei sonore: momentul care se cere înfruntat atunci când transversala se transformă într-o linie de abolire. Pace și exasperare. Muzica are sete de distrugere, de toate genurile de distrugere: stingere, spargere, dislocare. Nu tocmai în aceasta constă “fascismul” ei potențial?”
― Gilles Deleuze, quote from A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
“To a man who has spent centuries seeing to only his own needs, you are indeed high maintenance, but I'm finding I do not mind maintaining you. -Zacharel”
― Gena Showalter, quote from Wicked Nights
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