“But I sure do love to whack a grown-up in the morning.”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Fallen
“You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They’re not in the game no more.”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Fallen
“Now Lewis joined in. 'A sicko walks into a bar,' he said. 'WHAM! And then i hit him with the bar again, an iron bar, and knock him flat, then i hit him again, and again and again until his brains are, like, smashed all over the pavement. And then i slice him up with my new katana!'
'Yeah, Lewis,' said Brooke. 'Funny joke. Way to lighten the mood, bruv.”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Fallen
“Dinosaurs…why did it have to be dinosaurs?”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Fallen
“you see that movie, Chicken Run, where the chickens gang up together and escape from the farm?”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Fallen
“This just ain’t my day, is it?’ They came to the statue of a naked woman and Lewis slapped her on the buttocks. ‘You wouldn’t turn me down, would you, princess?’ he said.”
― Charlie Higson, quote from The Fallen
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, quote from The Republic
“It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, quote from North and South
“Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.”
― Jeaniene Frost, quote from Halfway to the Grave
“Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord?
Hamlet: Words, words, words.
Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
Hamlet: Between who?
Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Hamlet
“I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.
Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.”
― Libba Bray, quote from A Great and Terrible Beauty
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