“Only Loki was not a fighter. Only Loki stood at the sides and laughed, a laughter more deadly to the self-important gods than any sword or spear. No wonder they had chained him.”
― M.D. Lachlan, quote from Wolfsangel
“What is your name?" she asked.
"Names are like clothes, lady. I have many."
"And which one do you wear tonight?"
The god smiled. She could see he liked her words. He pulled her to him, pressed his wolf lips to hers and said, "My name is Misery, and would you know yet more?"
"Yes," said the girl, breathing in his scent, the scent of something beautiful, strange and burned. "I would know more."
He flicked at her lips with his tongue and whispered, "So is yours.”
― M.D. Lachlan, quote from Wolfsangel
“There is a killer in every cowardly man, waiting for the right set of circumstances when the time has been drained of the possibility of reprisals and he feels free to act.”
― M.D. Lachlan, quote from Wolfsangel
“Само Локи стоеше отстрани и се смееше. Смехът му беше по-смъртоносен от меч или копие за самомнителните богове. Нямаше нищо чудно в това, че са го оковали.”
― M.D. Lachlan, quote from Wolfsangel
“Men who have never had to fight love a weapon. They love to hold it in their hands, feel its balance and speculate on the damage they might do, were they called to do it.”
― M.D. Lachlan, quote from Wolfsangel
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“Tam między gałązkami coś tkwiło — coś sterczało odrębnego i obcego, choć niewyraźnego… i temu przyglądał się też mój kompan.
— Wróbel.
— Acha.
Był to wróbel. Wróbel wisiał na drucie. Powieszony. Z przechylonym łebkiem i rozwartym dzióbkiem. Wisiał na kawałku cienkiego drutu, zahaczonego o gałąź.
Szczególne. Powieszony ptak. Powieszony wróbel. Ta ekscentryczność krzyczała tutaj wielkim głosem i wskazywała na rękę ludzką, która wdarła się w gąszcz — ale kto? Kto powiesił, po co, jaki mógł być powód?… myślałem w gmatwaninie, w tym rozrośnięciu obfitującym w milion kombinacji, a trzęsąca jazda koleją, noc hucząca pociągiem, niewyspanie, powietrze, słońce, marsz tutaj z tym Fuksem i Jasia, matka, chryja z listem, moje „zamrażanie” starego, Roman, zresztą i kłopoty Fuksa z szefem w biurze (o których opowiadał), koleiny, grudy, obcasy, nogawki, kamyczki, liście, wszystko w ogóle przypadło naraz do tego wróbla, jak tłum na kolanach, a on zakrólował, ekscentryk… i królował w
tym zakątku.
— Kto by go mógł powiesić?
— Jakiś dzieciak.
— Nie. Za wysoko.
— Chodźmy.
Ale nie ruszał się. Wróbel wisiał. Ziemia była goła, ale miejscami nachodziła ją trawa krótka, rzadka, walało się tu sporo rzeczy, kawałek zgiętej blachy, patyk, drugi patyk,
tektura podarta, patyczek, był też żuk, mrówka, druga mrówka, robak nieznany, szczapa i tak dalej i dalej, aż ku zaroślom u korzeni krzaków — on przyglądał się temu, podobnie jak ja.
— Chodźmy. Ale jeszcze stał, patrzył, wróbel wisiał, ja stałem, patrzyłem. —
Chodźmy. — Chodźmy. Nie ruszaliśmy się jednak, może dlatego, że już za długo tu
staliśmy i upłynął moment stosowny do odejścia… a teraz to stawało się już cięższe, bardziej nieporęczne… my z tym wróblem, powieszonym w krzakach… i zamajaczyło mi się coś w rodzaju naruszenia proporcji, czy nietaktu, niestosowności z naszej strony…
byłem śpiący.
— No, w drogę! — powiedziałem i odeszliśmy… pozostawiając w krzakach wróbla, samego.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, quote from Cosmos
“Once my grandmother told me I needed to find God and I said, “Why don’t you just tell me where to look and save me the trouble?” I was dead serious. Faith, destiny, all the shit you can’t see, but yet people are so willing to take the leap. Not me.”
― Renee Carlino, quote from Sweet Thing
“When this is over, society will need entertainment to get past it. We'll make movies about it, hundreds of movies, and in every one of them, we'll be the heroes and the love interests and best friends and winners and we'll watch these movies until we are so far removed from our own history, we'll forget how it really felt to be here.”
― Courtney Summers, quote from This is Not a Test
“One day McKenna got hot enough”
― Richard Paul Evans, quote from Rise of the Elgen
“Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, quote from Beauty and Sadness
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