“My crazy's working a lot better than your sanity.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“It's a snake, then.'
'Rattler?'
'Most likely.'
I was taking this extremely well. 'We have to kill it. By we, of course, I mean you. I'll stand here and scream.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“We think a person should do right because it's right, not because their soul will be in eternal jeopardy if they don't toe the line.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“You come from Planet Hunk, sent to Earth to protect and serve. And make the ladies happy.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Can either one of you actually fly?"
"Ummm...define fly."
I heard cursing over the radios.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Do I really run like that?" (Kitty)
"Yup," Martini confirmed. "Don't worry, I think it's sexy."
"Thank God. I think I look like a cheetah on drugs.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“I'll marry you before any tree on Earth.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Kitty, do you have the bottle?"
"In my purse. Which is in my room. Not that I think I can find my room from here."
"I'll get it," Martini said. He stood up and disappeared. Ten seconds later he was back, bottle in hand.
"What kept you?"
"That purse gets worse every time I look inside.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Once you go alien, you really do never go back.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?"
"Over my dead body."
"Could be, Tim, could be.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“I think you're cute when the power goes to your head.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“You ever flown something before?" (Christopher)
"I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wars: Starfighter." (Kitty)
"I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I'm going to regret this." (Christopher)”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“We lifted up and then bobbed.
"Back! Pull it back!" (Christopher)
"It's hard." (Kitty)
"The ground is harder!" (Christopher)”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Great. I was housing with the Extreme Morning Militants. What a joy.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“I was on the floor. "Um, a little help?"
Christopher put his hand down. Martini cleared his throat and Christopher's hand retracted.
"I can handle it, thanks."
"There's nothing amorous about pulling someone off the floor," Christopher muttered.
"There is when I do it.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Suddenly, I can see you weren’t bragging – once you go alien, you really do never go back.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
“Superfast beings shouldn't piss off the comics geek-girl.”
― Gini Koch, quote from Touched by an Alien
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“If one does not develop, one goes down. In life, in ordinary conditions everything goes down, or one capacity may develop at the expense of another.”
― P.D. Ouspensky, quote from The Fourth Way
“Ben Franklin advises his grandson not to let even the American Revolution interrupt his studies, urging of young adulthood, "This is the time of life in which you are to lay the foundations of your future improvement and of your importance among men. If this season is neglected, it will be like cutting off the spring from the year.”
― H.W. Brands, quote from The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
“It feels as honest as the day is crummy that I begin this tale of total desperation and woe with me, my pukey sister, Georgia, and Leonardo the Silent sitting like rotting sardines in the back of a Hills Village Police Department cruiser.”
― James Patterson, quote from Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life
“توجد في داخل كل إنسان حياة بكل معانيها الوجودية:
في داخل كل منا جزء من رغبة في الكرامة البشرية, والشرف الأخلاقي, والخبرات الوجودية الحرة, وكمال العالم.
لكن لدى كل منا في نفس الوقت وبدرجات متفاوتة القدرة على التأقلم مع الحياة المزيفة, كلنا بطريقة ما يسقط في المادية الفاحشة والمصلحة الشخصية, في كل منا شيء من رغبة في الذوبات في جمع مجهول, ينساب معه بسعادة عبر مجرى حياة زائفة.
فالأمر ليس إذن صراع بين هويتين.
إنه شيء أسوأ من ذلك: إنها أزمة الهوية نفسها.”
― Václav Havel, quote from The Power of the Powerless
“Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart's willingness to feel whatever is present.”
― Noah Levine, quote from Against the Stream: A Buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries
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