21 quotes found
“Everyone today has a story”
“Lying is easy. But its lonely.”
“Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.”
“Ive been thinking. A dangerous pursuit. Indeed.”
“I’ve been thinking.” “A dangerous pursuit.” “Indeed.”
“What if I mess up?""Oh, you will. You'll mess up, you'll make mistakes, you'll break things. Some you'll be able to piece together, and others you'll lose. That's all a given. But there's only one ...”
“Lying is easy. But it's lonely.""What do you mean?""When you lie to everyone about everything, what's left? What's true?""Nothing," I say."Exactly.”
“Why are you so scared and creeping around,taking photographs all over town,pictures in the dark that live in the light,the world is my playground too and Ill do what I like.”
“His gaze settles on the discarded book. He leans, reaching until his fingertips graze Dante's Inferno, still on its bed of folded sheets. "What have we here?" he asks."Required reading," I say."It'...”
“The only way to truly record a person is not in words, not in still frames, but in bone and skin and memory.”
“The problem Creationists identify is with the word 'theory', not with the case for evolution”
“Everything hurts. I don't know how to make it stop. It hurts when I breathe. It hurts when I think. I feel like I'm drowning, and it's my fault, and I don't know how to be okay. I don't know if I C...”
“Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.”
“The first trick to lying is to tell the truth as often as possible. If out start lying about everything, big and small, it becomes impossible to keep things straight and you'll get caught. Once sus...”
“He manages a sad smile. An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. Its a manipulation.”
“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books.”
“Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. Im not afraid to die, you say with a wan smile. I just hope Im smart enough to stay dead.”
“We find the library world, like the real world, impossible to understand on a rational basis. We turn then to the outer reaches of our mind and treat librarianship with the irrationality that it de...”
“He manages a sad smile. “An omission is not the same thing as a lie, Miss Bishop. It’s a manipulation.”
“Like I said, Kenzie. Everything ends. I’m not afraid to die,” you say with a wan smile. “I just hope I’m smart enough to stay dead.”
