258 quotes found
“There is a unique bond between the land and the people in the Crescent City. Everyone here came from somewhere else, the muddy brown current of life prying them loose from their homeland and sweepi...”
“Michael had learned the hard way that nothing good came from interfering in the affairs of the afterlife.”
“..., imagine a loamy earth that starts with genocide, then adds a mix of further disease, wars, hurricanes, murder, great fires, dueling, insurrection and slavery, just to name a few of the many in...”
“Theyd never scared him, really. When he was younger, he hadnt known that there was anything different about them. By the time he was old enough to figure out that no one else could see them, he was...”
“When a thundering horde of drunken Vikings rush a person, it's only natural to flinch.”
“The spirits of the dead are not among us to entertain us... Assuming the revenants you encounter have simply signed up to play haunted house for the amusement of the living is just plain ignorant.”
“There are reasons why it is often difficult to reach our dead. When we do, our lives and everything we believe to be true can be turned entirely upside down.”
“Between one stride and the next, the herd of reindeer faded away. She felt a last few ghosts go with her, shoulder on shoulder, and then they too were gone and she was back, alone, in the world of ...”
“If a tattoo is supposed to make a statement, that kids body is just plain babbling.”
“If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it!”
“The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.”
“About the library," he whispered. He took out the pencil stub from his pocket and poised it over the page."Will you write like Mr. Blake or like yourself?" I inquired.He wrote and whispered the wor...”
“The world, he said, grows hourly more and more sceptical of all that lies beyond its own narrow radius; and our men of science foster the fatal tendency. They condemn as fable all that resists expe...”
“I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.”
“I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.”
“Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out.Granted, I had tried to steal her Tiara of Clairvoyance.”
“The tabloids wanted to know whether the dragon was receiving benefits. The gossip magazines claimed to have found a woman who was bearing the dragon's baby. The fashion magazines did spreads on dra...”
“I brought seaweed snacks from home,' chimed in another kid. "Seaweed got iron, right?"'I don't think the teachers meant that kind of iron,' said Hui Ann.”
“The first time she saw the boy across the classroom, Ah Lee knew she was in love because she tasted durian on her tongue.”
“But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.”
