54 quotes found
“I’m not afraid of total failure. In the end, we’re all just food for worms, so what are we so worried about?”
“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for." Banks tells me. "But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary existenc...”
“There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.”
“As much as some people would like to believe, for their own peace of mind, that the appearance of evil in this world had a clean cause, the truth was never that simple.”
“She was lost now, she'd been silenced- another dead branch on Cordova's warped tree.”
“I couldn't help but suspect something he'd seen or encountered had changed his view of what had happened between them. It had somehow set him free. And he'd let it fly, that gorgeous blackbird of a...”
“Though blessed with the enviable properties of a mink coat—graceful, unreasonable, and impractical no matter what she was draped over—she was nevertheless one of those people whose personality prov...”
“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.”
“Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the quirky, the achingly mundane, the grotesque. A few will eve...”
“I just got another kitten, you know. Found another trademark. It's quite embarrassing I misse”
“Betrayal isn't ridiculous. It's the reason empires fall.”
“You'll find that great artists don't love, live, fuck or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art. It nourishes them more than any connection to people. Whatever human trag...”
“I need to give you one last bit of advice in the off chance this rather extraordinary and enviable situation in which you find yourself is actually true- that somehow you've fallen deep down into a...”
“We were up the whole night just talking, walking the city. You can walk those blocks forever, take a break on the edge of the fountain, eat pizza and snow cones, awed by the human carnival all arou...”
