“It can't rain all the time.”
“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”
“It's not death if you refuse it...
It is if you accept it.”
“Life is just a dream on the way to death.”
“Sarah: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...”
“Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.”
“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”
“Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.”
“Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.”
“Sometimes I dream of sleepiness,
sometimes I feel like I'm alive.”
“Death, like virtue, has its degrees.”
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?”
“I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker.”
“Life is lousy with hurt but it also shimmers with beauty.”
“Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts...”
“Eric screams and screams and pounds his head against the wall until phantom fire trucks race across his vision. All he wants is pain. Pain and hate. Yes, hate. But never fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”
“ICH BENDÜRFNES JESUS CHRISTUS HANGELENK
MEIN GEBEIN WEINEN
ODLAND, KRIEGSBIET, LEBENWEISE
GESCHWINDIGKEIT, HALBMESSER, ABSTEIG
GNAPENSTOB”
“...the girl.. her name was Shelly...”
“Mira chico, aparta esa pistola. Las balas no me detienen, las navajas no me hieren... Mira...¡Mírame! Soy el error del piloto, soy la malformación del feto, soy el cromosoma aleatorio... soy la más completa y total locura... soy el miedo...”
“Tell them I'm coming, mr. Jones.”
“He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white.”
“Kind of. Just—we don’t know what happens when we die, right? I mean, maybe we go up to some perfect place in the sky, or maybe we turn to dust, or we’re spirits and can still think and hear and go places. So talking to the person that’s dead isn’t crazy. They could be listening to you. Right?”
“She lifts a bowl of kheer and her thoughts, flittering like dusty sparrows in a brown back alley, turn a sudden kingfisher blue.”
“It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.”
“His clothing marked him as Italian. The cadence of his speech announced that he was Venetian. His eyes were all policeman.”
“Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.”
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