Tim Burton · 115 pages
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“Stick Boy liked Match Girl,
He liked her a lot.
He liked her cute figure,
he thought she was hot.
But could a flame ever burn
for a match and a stick?
It did quite literally;
he burned up quick.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“My name is Jimmy,
but my friends just call me
the hideous penguin boy.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“They took a baseball bat
and whacked open his head.
Mummy Boy fell to the ground;
he finally was dead.
Inside of his head
were no candy or prizes,
just a few stray beetles
of various sizes.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor,
What have you done to my boy?
He's not flesh and blood,
he's aluminum alloy!"
The doctor said gently,
What I'm going to say
will sound pretty wild.
But you're not the father
of this strange looking child.
You see, there still is some question
about the child's gender,
but we think that its father
is a microwave blender.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“My diagnosis," he said
"for better or worse,
is that your son is the result
of an old pharaoh's curse.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware
he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“The Boy with Nails in His Eyes
put up his aluminum tree.
It looked pretty strange
because he couldn't really see.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain!”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Alone and rejected, Mummy Boy wept,
then went to the cabinet
where the snack food was kept.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
“Cabeza de melón
Había un niño taciturno,
de hombre y melón un injerto.
Tenía el ánimo nocturno
por desear tanto estar muerto.
Pero hay que tener cuidado
con lo que se desea.
Pues él acabó en jalea
tras un pisotón bien dado.”
― Tim Burton, quote from The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories
Tim Burton
Born place: in Burbank, California, The United States
Born date August 25, 1958
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“Aleksander."
His eyes fluttered shut. "Don't let me be alone," he murmured. And then he was gone.”
― Leigh Bardugo, quote from Ruin and Rising
“I lifted my face to meet the kiss, wanting the comfort of his touch as much as I was willing to provide the comfort of mine. The contact was sweet and soft, yet at the same time desperate.
It was Zane who pulled away first. "Danica, I think..." He trailed off and kissed me again, this time briefly, just the barest touch of lips to lips. "I love you."
From a man who frequently uttered eloquent speeches, the tentative declaration was not the most flattering of compliments-especially when every movement he made and look he cast my way had shown the long truth before now.
But coming from the serpent who had once informed me that he did not love me and did not think he ever could, whose cool, polished words could cut to the bone and freeze the Earth's frozen molten blood — whose eyes right now were just a bid dazed, and whose expression was as open and startled as I had ever seen it — the words were more than enough.
"I know," I answered. Then, soft but certain, I answered, "I love you too."
His smile matched mine and said the same as mine: I know.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, quote from Hawksong
“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isn’t wrong, when you know exactly how much he’s fought those feelings. People can’t control matters of the heart, Warren.
They can only control their actions, which is exactly what Ridge did. He lost control once for ten seconds, but after that, every single time temptation reared its ugly head, he walked in the other direction. The only thing Ridge has done wrong is fail to delete his messages, because by doing so, he failed to protect Maggie. He failed to protect her from the harsh truth that people don’t get to choose who they fall in love with. They only get to choose who they stay in love with.” I look up at the ceiling and blink back tears. “He was choosing to stay in love with her, Warren. Why can’t she see that? This will kill him so much more than it’s killing her.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Maybe Someday
“How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men’s lives and the wealth of nations as love-tokens.”
― Jacqueline Carey, quote from Kushiel's Avatar
“We'll meet again, we'll part once more.”
― James Joyce, quote from Finnegans Wake
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