Christopher Pike · 594 pages
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“You can never hate strongly unless you have loved strongly”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“When you are in love you know no fear or hatred. when you are fearful there is no possibility of love or hatred. And when there is hate, there is only hate.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“death never comes at the right time, despite what mortals believe. Death always comes like a thief.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“Truly, a life in constant pain is the life of the damned.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“Then you should have never been born”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“A lover who hates, a saint who sins, and an angel who kills.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“Suddenly I felt the weight of shattered dreams.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“God is God. His name doesn’t matter.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“But centuries of time have not made me insensitive”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“There is no sun, but a hundred blazing blue stars,each shimmering in a long river of nebulous cloud. The air is warm, pleasant,fragrant with the perfume of a thousand invisible flowers.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“we were here to become like God. To live like his blessed son. We just needed a few pints of Christ's blood to do so.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“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.”
― Christopher Pike, quote from Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, and Red Dice
“Maybe we tried so hard to be like the Sisterhood because it was easy for them and we wanted it to be easy for us. Because they were lucky and we wanted to be lucky too. They had wonder, and we didn't have any. We looked for the magic, but we didn't fine it. We waited for the magic, but it didn't find us.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from 3 Willows: The Sisterhood Grows
“When he got to the shoe putting-on stage he called Hosain again. Putting on and taking off his own shoes and boots were activities at which he drew the line if there was a man available to perform these services. He had learned to draw the line in Muzzafirabad where his first CO, Colonel Gawstone, advised him never to stoop if he could help it. The climate wasn't right for it. Mrs. Gawstone had stooped to pick up a glove and keeled right over and never got up. They had buried her the next day.”
― Paul Scott, quote from The Towers of Silence
“Maturity
A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body grows
Inaccurate, tired;
Then I shall start to feel the backward pull
Take over, sickening and masterful —
Some say, desired.
And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to think
This pantomime
Of compensating act and counter-act,
Defeat and counterfeit, makes up, in fact,
My ablest time.”
― Philip Larkin, quote from Collected Poems
“Chet! What are you eating?”
Nothing. It was true. The eating part was over.”
― Spencer Quinn, quote from Dog on It
“The Gedalists were nearly run down by a Dodge truck on which two grand pianos had been loaded: two uniformed officers were playing, in unison, with gravity and commitment, the 1812 Overture of Tchaikowsky, while the driver wove among the wagons with brusque swerves, pressing the siren at full volume, heedless of the pedestrians in his way.”
― Primo Levi, quote from If Not Now, When?
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