622 quotes found
“Working with some real dirt seemed fitting for a woman whose hands felt like they would remain forever filthy. She decided to go after the thickets of weeds that seemed determined to ruin her garde...”
“Friendship and sex were really all she wanted from men these days.”
“What's a jagoff?" Stich asked."It's like a jerkoff, except it's you," Kat said.”
“I am, like you, travelling along a road of absolute uncertainty and chaos. The only truth is that one day, we will all reach the end.”
“They will find whatever button will make you dance, and dance you will, no matter how hideous the tune.”
“One evening coming in with a candle I was startled to hear him say a little tremulously, "I am lying here in the dark waiting for death." The light was within a foot of his eyes. I forced myself to...”
“On the outside, I 'm a husband and a father to three sons. I end to keep quiet and stay to myself. That way I stay out of trouble as much as possible. Some people say I'm almost too quiet but it's ...”
“By necessity practical and by philosophy stern, these folk were not beautiful in their sins.”
“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and theyd never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life in favor of her career. It gave her a sense of control to watch h...”
“He felt more crypts cracking open inside of him; the stench he smelled was not decayed bodies but decayed memories, and that was somehow worse.”
“Krisztina played the song. It was a lament made of eight notes, repeated. It was an empty melody. It sounded elemental too; it made Krisztina think of the snow falling beyond the window and across ...”
“Ben knew that no matter how far you run, you're still yourself when you get there.”
“I always said I acted like a twelve-year old, so I decided to write like a twelve-year old.”
“Even in death, may you be triumphant”
“In his house at Rlyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
“Seated in the middle of the floor with its back to me was the naked figure of a baby of, perhaps, two years, prattling wordlessly in its sing-song treble as it played with a pile of gleaming white ...”
“It all floats down here!”
“You have no idea what its like, knowing youre going to die in an hour. Sixty short minutes are now the only things that separate you from the other side. From the country undiscovered by the living...”
“All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit.”
“I assure you, if Uncle Henry had stepped out from among the trees in a little copse which borders the path at one place, carrying his head under his arm, I should have been very little more uncomfo...”
