29 quotes found
“Only other people can make you feel real.”
“She laughs, and that's really all he wanted.”
“He always thought a muse should be sex on legs.”
“Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.”
“You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.”
“The original stories are mined out, and all thats left is fools gold.”
“Explosions and fighting robots and shit. Whats that got to do with the heart?”
“This is my idea of family, actually, a sticky morass you can't chew your way out of.”
“The dream knows what they are waiting for, even if they dont themselves.The end of everything.The moment when it reveals its miracle boy and all the eyes will look and their seeing will be horror a...”
“You can map out a whole city according to the weight of memory, like pins on the homicide board tracking the killer's movements. But the connections get thicker and denser and more complicated all ...”
“Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting”
“you're deluding yourself that you have some deep spiritual connection, like you didn't just read it on Wikipedia. There's a difference between tradition and culture.”
“() everything is finite. Life. Love. All this.' () 'Sadness too. Although that's harder to let go of than happiness.”
“She's even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling yourself. It's why you needed other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you ...”
“Visibility limits your imagination of the ocean only as far as you can see, ten metres, fifteen at a stretch. But it's only in the utter black that you can feel the true scale, the volume and weigh...”
“Traffic in Joburg is like the democratic process. Every time you think it's going to get moving and take you somewhere, you hit another jam.”
“I smile thinly, to make it clear that this will happen when hell turns into a family friendly summer resort.”
“Florrie smiles with unmoderated joy, because she can't see that most people bank their happiness like it's something you might run out of”
“So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks."Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?""I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body...”
“Dope don't have no sympathy, not for love or family, definitely not for fear. Put dope and the devil up against each other in the ring, and dope will win out. Every single time.”
“Next time, can you ask him to bring cookies? I don't like to put up with that level of insane unless there's some kind of high-calorie compensation.”
