25 quotes found
“Knowledge is justice”
“What was worse, being crazy or being evil?”
“Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other.”
“When the world turns chaotic, we must be the better part of chaos.”
“Do you think the occasional witch burning helps to weld society together?”
“Love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.”
“I hope it's the good kind of dilemma," Reginald broke Patricia's reverie. "Whatever one you're on the horns of."..."I was just thinking," she said. "There are so many scary problems in the world. L...”
“A society that has to burn witches to hold itself together is a society that has already failed, and just doesn't know it yet.”
“Why would anybody be a Satanist, anyway? I dont get it. You cant believe in Satan without believing in God, and then youre just picking the wrong side in a big mythic battle thing.”
“As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.”
“You turned your guilt into resentment, because that seems easier to face. You won't move on until you turn it back into guilt, and then into forgiveness for yourself.”
“Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all clichs were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if en...”
“Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.”
“Thats the definition of evil right there: not faking it like everybody else.”
“I don't actually think that ethics are derived from principles. At all." Patricia scooted a little closer again and touched his arm with a few cool fingertips. "I think that the most basic thing of...”
“When it comes to love triangles and duels to the death, you should always cheat. - Fairy Werewolf vs. Zombie Vampire”
“And she felt like they, the two of them, right here, right now, could make something that defied tragedy.”
“Laurence felt a weird combination of shame and rage, as though he'd grown another new body part just in time to get punched in it.”
“Believe me, theres nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have ans...”
“Booze really was medicinal, after a near-death experience. Holding a drink in both hands and letting it corrode the topmost layer of his mouth and throat, Laurence felt a spiritual relationship wit...”
