“When dark creeps in and eats the light,
Bury your fears on Sorry Night.
For in the winter's blackest hours,
Comes the feasting of the Vours,
No one can see it, the life they stole,
Your body's here but not your soul...”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“I know a secret,and secrets breed paranoia.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“If you dont know learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“We all have a dark side, Reggie. You. Me. The old lady down the street. Henry. Everyone. We make the choice not to embrace it, but the dark is there. It's always there. Inside us.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“What? Quinn's one of them? I just thought he was an a*shole!”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“Lusty blacksmiths and naughty princesses. Now that's scary”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“If you don't learn how to be scared, you'll never really learn how to be brave.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“If you didn't believe in the possibility, you wouldn't have challenged these creatures. And the minute you start to believe in something, it begins to have power over you.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“Surrender to your fear so you may triumph over it.Choose me,open you soul to me, and embrace the Devouring.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“Good.I need you to be scared.Very,very scared.And then you'll never be scared again.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“We can always count on people to hate and to fear.To harm one another and to be harmed.To kill and be killed.It is what opens the gate.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“Being scared is practice for being scared.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“They lurk in the cold and dark.Hungry and,wicked,they wait for their one chance to devour the weak on Sorry Night.Then the vours feast on a banquet of fear.Your fear.They steal your soul but your body remains.No one knows the difference.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“When darkness comes and eats the light,
bury your fears on sorry night.
Because in the winter's darkest hours,
comes the feasting of the Vours.
You cannot see it, the life they stole.
Your body's there, but not your soul.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“Cuando lo oscuridad se desliza y se traga la luz, entierra tus miedos e nla Noche de los Lamentos porque, en la shoras más negras del invierno los Voradores celebran su festín. Nadie podrá ver la vida que robarón; tu cuerpo sigue aquí, pero tu alma ya no..."
"Merodean en el frío y la oscuridad
Hambrientos y traviesos
Esperan su oportunidad para devorar
a los débiles en la Nochde los Lamentos
Es entonces cuando los voradores emprenden su festín con los miedos.
Tus miedos. Y roban tu alma,
Pero tu cuerpo permanece...y nadie nota la diferencia"
"Los Voradores nos rodean
Usan nuestros nombres y caras, pero no son nosotros.
Lo más peligroso es cuando nos dicen: "No hay nada de que asustarse..." En realidad, es mucho lo que viene por temer"
"Una vez que se ha ido, no hay regreso.
Una vez dentro, no hay salida.
En lo oscuro permanecerá, perdido por siempre, entre el miedo y la duda"
"Su miedo te ha devorado, él se quedará aquí para siempre”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
“What’s the old saying? Ah, I remember now. ‘Curiosity flayed the cat alive, ripped it apart limb from limb, and listened to it scream before it killed it.’ That’s the one.”
― Simon Holt, quote from The Devouring
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“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.”
― Marina Keegan, quote from The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
“Dawnstar, the former ShadowClan leader who had given a life to Raggedstar. “I give you a life for honor,” she told Brokentail. “Honor is expected from all cats, but most of all, from a Clan leader. Use the honor of leadership carefully.”
― Erin Hunter, quote from Yellowfang's Secret
“We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.”
― John Marsden, quote from Darkness, Be My Friend
“miss him?” Another slow sip. “How can you not miss Rake once you’ve played for him? I see his face every day. I hear his voice. I can smell him sweating. I can feel him hitting me, with no pads on. I can imitate his growl, his grumbling, his bitching. I remember his stories, his speeches, his lessons. I remember all forty plays and all thirty-eight games when I wore the jersey. My father died four years ago and I loved him dearly, but, and this is hard to say, he had less influence on me than Eddie Rake.”
― John Grisham, quote from Bleachers
“«La imagen de un hombre haciéndose pajas había sido una de sus principales maneras de excitarse. ¿Por qué? Si sus propias sensaciones podían servirle de guía, follar con otra persona nunca salía del todo bien, nunca exactamente como debía. Le había encantado la idea de que fuera así, un hombre ciego con su propio placer.
»Y el autoerotismo era el sanctasanctórum, la auténtica definición de lo privado. Un número indeterminado de amantes de tiempos pasados se habían mostrado muy dispuestos a probar todas las variantes típicas y unas cuantas más, pero lo único que esos hombres nunca estaban dispuestos a hacer por voluntad propia —con una memorable excepción— era masturbarse delante de ella. Sin embargo, ése era el descubrimiento inicial del que manaba todo el sexo; era la fuente.
»La mayoría de los chicos se habrían masturbado cientos de veces antes de conocer carnalmente a una chica, y es famoso el poder alucinógeno de las pajas de la adolescencia. La torpeza y los titubeos característicos de tantos episodios en que las mujeres pierden la flor deben de ser, en comparación, una decepción a escala mundial.
»Incluso en la vida adulta, es casi seguro que muchos hombres siguen experimentando un éxtasis muy superior meneándosela encima del inodoro mientras piensan en una pareja imaginaria, que llevándose a la cama a mujeres de carne y hueso con celulitis y una irritante compulsión a decir “en realidad...” al comienzo de cada frase. Curioso, ¿no? Puesto que lo mismo podía decirse de las mujeres, lo verdaderamente curioso era por qué alguien se tomaba la molestia de follar».”
― Lionel Shriver, quote from The Post-Birthday World
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