“His presence makes me feel thin. Not model slender. But worn, like an old cotton housedress. Thin like a specimen pressed between two plates of glass. Like a bug squashed beneath the marching boot of a soldier.
Thin and worn and silence like I've never known.
This is how I know he is not a Tick.
They are as pitiable as they are inhuman. They are fear personified. Their emotions and minds given over to rage and hunger. They are all noise. He is none.
If he is not a Tick, does that make him a Tock?”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“You just told me you didn't intend to love me. You didn't want to love me. You got yourself arrested to keep yourself away from me. That's not love. That's a compulsion. And, by the way, kudos on coming up with the worst pickup line of all time.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“Carter may have just beaten the crap out of me, he may have shot me in the back, but he'd bought me Dr. Pepper. I know it was effed up, but somehow, it balanced out.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“What can I say to convince you that I'm on the up-and-up?"
"Why don't you just start at the beginning and I'll stop you when you've won me over.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“I worry about Lily, sluggish as she is. Will she see Carter's truths? Will he tell her? God knows she won't hear them. She's moving too fast to hear anyone's music but her own. She's so set, but I know he could make her settled. I tried to sync their noise into music, but they both pushed back. Too obdurate to be oblong.
Silly Lily. How can she resist someone who brings gum and sounds like math?”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“That's how you know you're doing the right thing - it's so hard you want to give up.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“The Vampires have a plan to take over the world?" I asked. I felt a bit dumb, gasping in surprise at every twist to the story and incredulously repeating all the important of bits. But somehow Carter's version of things made sense. I felt like Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz when the green curtain is pulled back to reveal the truth.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“The Dean liked to remind us that those fences were there to keep the Ticks out as much as to keep us in.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“If he is not a Tick, does that make him a Tock?”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“Eğer kulak verirsen, her şeyin kendine göre bir ses perdesi vardır. Ama insanların çoğu dinlemez.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“İşte tüm bu eşyalar çok fazla ses çıkarıyor. Müziği duyamıyorum. Eğer duysaydım neyin eksik olduğunu anlayacaktım.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“Ortalıkta gezen ergen kitaplarının sizi inandırdığı şeylere rağmen, dokuzuncu sınıf biyoloji dersinde yakışıklı bir çocuğun yanında oturuyor olmak, bir ilişki başlangıcı olmak zorunda değildir.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“...Ayrıca, Amerika da dünyanın geri kalanının çok sevdiği bir ülke değildi.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
“Çünkü ben müziği dinlemeyi yeğliyorum, üzerine konuşup durmayı değil.”
― Emily McKay, quote from The Farm
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“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”
― Dean Koontz, quote from From the Corner of His Eye
“We must learn and then teach our children that niceness does not equal goodness. Niceness is a decision, a strategy of social interaction; it is not a character trait. People seeking to control others almost always present the image of a nice person in the beginning. Like rapport-building, charm and the deceptive smile, unsolicited niceness often has a discoverable motive.”
― Gavin de Becker, quote from The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“I wasn't enjoying the conversation that much. I didn't want to prolong it. It is the sort of man-to-woman infight that I try whenever possible to ascribe to premenstrual tension. I like the theory, but unfortunately in this case I happened to know that it didn't account for Klara, and of course it leaves unresolved at any time the question of how to account for me.”
― Frederik Pohl, quote from Gateway
“Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, quote from Ferdydurke
“Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, quote from Theatre
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