“It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“He wiped away the tears, tenderly, and I forgot to weep as he told me silently everything I always wanted to hear. ”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“—leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone—breathe, damn you, breathe!”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“Lucas went even paler. “Then you’re on the track to suicide,” he whispered. “Take my advice, Valentine. Run. Run as fast as you can, for as long as you can. Steal whatever bit of life you can. You’re already dead.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
“I have set you as a seal upon my heart; I will not return to Hell.”
― Lilith Saintcrow, quote from Working for the Devil
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“I’m not this unusual,” she said. “It’s just my hair.”
She looked at Bobby and she looked at me, with an expression at once disdainful and imploring. She was forty, pregnant, and in love with two men at once. I think what she could not abide was the zaniness of her life. Like many of us, she had grown up expecting romance to bestow dignity and direction.
“Be brave,” I told her. Bobby and I stood before her, confused and homeless and lacking a plan, beset by an aching but chaotic love that refused to focus in the conventional way. Traffic roared behind us. A truck honked its hydraulic horn, a monstrous, oceanic sound. Clare shook her head, not in denial but in exasperation. Because she could think of nothing else to do, she began walking again, more slowly, toward the row of trees.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from A Home at the End of the World
“Hablamos de ganar y perder una guerra con la misma naturalidad con que se habla de ganar y perder un partido. En un anuncio televisivo del ejército norteamericano aparece un carro de combate que destruye a otro en unas maniobras, después de lo cual el jefe del vehículo victorioso dice: «Cuando ganamos, no gana una sola persona, sino todo el equipo.» La relación entre deporte y combate resulta por demás clara. Los fans (abreviatura de «fanáticos») llegan a cometer toda clase de desmanes, incluso a matar, cuando se sienten vejados por la derrota de su equipo, se les impide celebrar la victoria o consideran que el arbitro ha cometido una injusticia.”
― Carl Sagan, quote from Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
“attract more friends, and extend life. Humor heals.”
― Allan Pease, quote from The Definitive Book of Body Language
“Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from The Wake
“People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.”
― Isaac Asimov, quote from Forward the Foundation
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