“If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead
“Some people get more of a chance to show who they are. Other people never get the chance.”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead
“But then again, impossible never became rumour, did it?”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead
“Sometimes you know when someone is telling you the truth.”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead
“Why do we believe one stranger and not another?”
― Todd Strasser, quote from Wish You Were Dead
Todd Strasser
Born place: in New York, New York, The United States
Born date May 5, 1950
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“Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.”
― Guy Gavriel Kay, quote from River of Stars
“If you hadn’t anything worth saying why go chattering all the time?”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Evil Under the Sun
“I want the dead to be dead
forever.
I don't want to be one of them,
Except of course you can't be one of them.
You can't be one of the dead
because that which, has no existence can have no community.
No community!
My heart warms just thinking about it--
blackness, aloneness ,silence, peace,
and all of it only a heartbeat away.”
― Cormac McCarthy, quote from The Sunset Limited
“«Τίποτα στον κόσμο δεν αξίζει όσο η επιμονή. Ούτε το ταλέντο: παντού βλέπετε αποτυχημένους ταλαντούχους.
Ούτε και η ιδιοφυία: οι ιδιοφυίες που δεν τις αναγνώρισαν είναι κοινός τόπος.
Ούτε η μόρφωση: ο κόσμος είναι γεμάτος παραπεταμένους μορφωμένους.
Μόνο η επιμονή κι η αποφασιστικότητα είναι παντοδύναμες».”
― Syd Field, quote from Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting
“Okay note to self: news of the end of the world is best taken on an empty stomach.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
The Lost Twin
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