“There is no greater bore than perfection.”
“Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.”
“The world is made up of two classes - the hunters and the huntees.”
“Don't talk rot, Whitney," said Rainsford. "You're a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”
“It's so dark," he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--”
“I'll have to admit, he really does have quite a smile.Kind of heart-stopping, especially as it comes out of nowhere.
I mean... you know. If your heart was in the kind of place to be stopped.”
“In the heart are three emotions—I felt them then: love, fear, and hatred. I could see that an individual could only have one of the three at a time.”
“A civilization has the ethics it can afford. We”
“Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.”
“Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.”
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