February 2012
40 posts
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“Now that he’s conquered the mountain, there’s nothing to stop him from taking on...”
– Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows Of Kabul
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“I speak of the force that created the physics of the universe, the force that...”
– Chris Wooding, The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
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“All I ever wanted was to know what to do.”
– Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity!
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“One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes...”
– Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River
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“People always think they’ve got to be riskin’ something to get to the end of the...”
– Ania Ahlborn, Seed
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“This is the truth: We are a nation accustomed to being afraid. If I’m being...”
– Feed; Book One of the Newsflesh Trilogy by Mira Grant (via abeautifulmetaphor)
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“You didn’t need gates and barbed wire to make a prison. Familiarity could pin...”
– Greg Egan, Schild’s Ladder
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“Destruction is the beginning of all creativity. Without it, there can be no...”
– Jennifer McMahon, Dismantled
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“All houses are haunted. Some by the past or the future, some by the present.”
– Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead
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“I thought that all I needed to do was forget the past, focus on the future. I...”
– Heather Gudenkauf, These Things Hidden
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“When you first heard him talking about it, you’d figure he was batshit...”
– Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff
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“I was not afraid of horror, I was afraid of beauty, of what it could do to me if...”
– Vanessa Veselka - Zazen
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“Some damage is but destructive, and other damage, through destruction, repairs.”
– Adam Levin, The Instructions
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“We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too...”
– Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
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“Surviving is one thing,” he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, “but you’ve...”
– David Moody, Autumn
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“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to...”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
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“I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night,...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the...”
– Nick Hornby, How to Be Good (via mischamanual)
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“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
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““Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“Pain is inevitable but suffering is optional”
– Haruki Murakami
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“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s...”
– Orson Scott Card, Speaker For the Dead
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“…the best music is what you are going to listen to next.”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly (2.14.12)
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“I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are...”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly column (2.14.12)
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“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
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“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the...”
– Louis L’Amour
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“We talked for hours. Long, rambling conversations about everything under the...”
– Ernest Cline, Ready Player One
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“And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once...”
– Douglas Coupland, Life After God
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“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have...”
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
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“You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart,...”
– Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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“I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language...”
– Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
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“What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I...”
– Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be useful To You
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“It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it, some...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
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“As they say, the best is yet to come — as long as you keep showing up.”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly (2.9.12)
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“The day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
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“The people at my shows are going to be done with me before I am done with them,...”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly (2.2.12)
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“Time becomes fluid and is then smashed, compressed, elongated by miles and then...”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly (2.2.12)
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“O sleep, O gentle sleep,
Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee,
That...”
– William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part II
January 2012
20 posts
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“Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil - Chapter VII
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“One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable...”
– High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (via check-your-pockets-chimney-child)
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“That terrible thing that happened to you is always going to have happened to...”
– Joey Comeau
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“…always most awake at points of ending, then rising tired to the world – a...”
– Blake Butler, Nothing, A Memoir of Insomnia
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“Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a...”
– Lev Grossman, The Magician King
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“Maybe we live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things...”
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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“The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Eating the Dinosaur
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“Life is short. Get to as much music as you can. Don’t get hung up on the...”
– Henry Rollins, LA Weekly column (1.19.12)
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“There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as...”
– R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn
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“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you...”
– R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn