“It can't rain all the time.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“It's not death if you refuse it...
It is if you accept it.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Life is just a dream on the way to death.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Sarah: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“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...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Sometimes I dream of sleepiness,
sometimes I feel like I'm alive.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Death, like virtue, has its degrees.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Life is lousy with hurt but it also shimmers with beauty.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“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.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“ICH BENDÜRFNES JESUS CHRISTUS HANGELENK
MEIN GEBEIN WEINEN
ODLAND, KRIEGSBIET, LEBENWEISE
GESCHWINDIGKEIT, HALBMESSER, ABSTEIG
GNAPENSTOB”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“...the girl.. her name was Shelly...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“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...”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“Tell them I'm coming, mr. Jones.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
“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.”
― James O'Barr, quote from The Crow
James O'Barr
Born place: in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
Born date January 1, 1960
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“You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?'
She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.”
― Gene Wolfe, quote from Sword & Citadel
“He holds my gaze, and the look in his eyes is a love letter in itself. When he speaks, his voice is rough. "Will you marry me, Cate?"
I go still, the question hanging in the air. I have never felt more accepted 'for the girl I am, not the girl I want to be' never more loved and respected than I am in this moment. It's a choice, and it's mine to make.
"Yes," I breathe.
Finn slides the simple gold band onto my ring finger. I tilt it, and the ruby sparkles, catching the sunlight. He leans down and brushes his lips against mine, sealing the promise. 'I can't wait to make you my wife.'
'Cate Belastra.' I try it out and despite the solemnity of the moment, despite knowing what this will cost him, I can't help smiling.”
― Jessica Spotswood, quote from Born Wicked
“His mother taught him mathematics, literature, and language at home during the day. His father taught him German history and world history and culture in the evenings. And whenever he could get away from his factories, Uncle Avi came and took him up into the mountains to hike and to fix things and learn to work with his hands.”
― Joel C. Rosenberg, quote from The Auschwitz Escape
“Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll be speaking out against a crime many fundamentalists consider a holy practice. I’m sure my work will be dangerous, and I admit to being scared…. But my faith tells me to be strong, that God led me down this path for a reason. He has work for me to do. This is my mission. And I believe that long before the day I was born, God chose the day I will die, so I can’t change that. In the meantime, I might as well take a chance, because that’s what I’ve done all my life.”
― Waris Dirie, quote from Desert Flower
“Mary had the same face as ma used to have sitting staring into the ashes it was funny that face it slowly grew over the other one until one day you looked and the person you knew was gone. And instead there was a half-ghost sitting there who had only one thing to say: All the beautiful things of this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.”
― Patrick McCabe, quote from The Butcher Boy
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