“We're going to have such fun, you and I.”
― J.D. Barker, quote from The Fourth Monkey
“Father once told me there was a sweet spot to life between the age of fifteen and sixty-five when you were fully visible to the world—any older and you fade from sight, dimming to obscurity. And”
― J.D. Barker, quote from The Fourth Monkey
“He loved TV Guide. He never watched television, didn’t need to—he got everything he needed from the magazine”
― J.D. Barker, quote from The Fourth Monkey
“television had lost its luster when they canceled The Incredible Hulk in May of 1982.”
― J.D. Barker, quote from The Fourth Monkey
“Mizaru means see no evil, Kikazaru means hear no evil, and Iwazaru means speak no evil.” Father”
― J.D. Barker, quote from The Fourth Monkey
“Bran was the only person I knew who could use words like "blackguard" and make them sound like swear words-but then he could have said "bunny rabbit" in that tone of voice and weaken my spine with the same shiver of fear.”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Moon Called
“There is no young creature, my Lord, who so greatly wants, or so earnestly wishes for, the advice and assistance of her friends, as I do: I am new to the world, and unused to acting for myself;-my intentions are never willfully blameable, yet I err perpetually!”
― Fanny Burney, quote from Evelina
“the sweet juices of your mouth
are like castles bathed in honey.
i've never had it done so gently before.
you have put a circle of castles
around my penis and you swirl them
like sunlight on the wings of birds.”
― Richard Brautigan, quote from Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar
“That one, there,” Tonio murmured, but the weight of his suspicion was breaking him, sickening him. Send death for me, like that, some paid assassin? It seemed he’d already been dealt the blow and this was not life any longer, rather some nightmare place where that sentinel stood on the bridge and these strangers urged him to a meaningless portal.”
― Anne Rice, quote from Cry to Heaven
“there is here a striving, avid and worldly civilisation, of course; these huge and eager markets, to this incessant buying and selling, that make that self evident; but I had no conception of the ubiquitous sense of the holy, no notion of how another world can permeate the secular. Filth, stench, disease, "gross superstition" as our people say, extreme poverty, promiscuous universal defecation, do not affect it: nor do they affect my sense of humanity with which I am surrounded. What an agreeable city it is, where a man may walk around naked in the heat if it so please him”
― Patrick O'Brian, quote from H.M.S. Surprise
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