"It seems appropriate that emotions should have recoil in the same way guns do, because after all they‘re just as dangerous."

#quote #quotes

"Power is crack cocaine for your ego and battery acid for your soul."

#quote #quotes

I love this image.

"They're not nuts, friends, they're simply seeing it all through different eyes."

#quote #quotes

"The more I see of people, the better I like animals."

#quote #quotes

"But what was her mistake? Thinking she could save her soul, no doubt."

#quote #quotes

"Maybe I‘m not a confused human being with problems, maybe I‘m something altogether different, an artichoke."

#quote #quotes

"Why? Because it is far better to be lonely *with* someone than to be lonely alone."

#quote #quotes

"...his life set itself up in a new sequence, apart from her, yet totally motivated by her existence, and the reality of her absence."

#quote #quotes

"You see through the conflict most of us live with: we have a deep need for the human warmth that brings us together, but we can‘t surrender ourselves to it because of the distrust that makes us keep our distance."

#quote #quotes

"You have to deny your own programming or else you aren't really living."

#quote #quotes

"Succumbing to our own nature isn't a choice, it's our default setting."

#quote #quotes

"Did he know my thoughts because he understood me, or because they were his thoughts as well?"

#quote #quotes

"It's harder to get by when getting by is all there is."

#quote #quotes

"It means you have nothing, no one willing to help you, no services left to render that anyone finds useful."

#quote #quotes

"It's not a good thing to be awake in your own dream and then have someone walk in out of nowhere and hijack it."

#quote #quotes

"It was just a coincidence, obviously, but it really did look as though you'd managed to open up her head somehow and take a look inside."

#quote #quotes

"He didn't deserve it--but he wanted to."

#quote #quotes

"Maybe he'd lost his marbles *because* he was telling the truth."

#quote #quotes

"Men play, women pay."

#quote #quotes

“Coincidence, serendipity, predestination, fate.”

#quote #quotes

"Obviously a coincidence, but an unwelcome and badly timed one."

#quote #quotes

I wasn't expecting this book to make me laugh.

#chapter1

"Democracy was cancelled on account of rain."

#quote #quotes

*No spoilers*
This story had my blood running warm, then cold, then warm again. It ended with an elevator drop to the gut.

#Loaded

"I think I was listening for Radio Adulthood then, remaining perfectly still in the hopes that I could catch a transmission carrying useful news and emergency instructions."

#quote #quotes

These birds tho... ☠

#Snapshot

"Anyway, I thought the traveler pretty much deserved what he got and that you should never play games." (This made me laugh)

#quote #quotes

"Asshole," I muttered.

#quote #quotes

"The sky was as white and opaque as a cinema screen. It seemed as if at any minute Charlie Chaplin would appear, twirling his cane, on the horizon of the motorway."

#quote #quotes

"Old people, like lovers, are alone in the world, which is to say, profoundly egotistical."

#quote #quotes

"Din't I pay for it ten times over? Ent my life shit enough without having more shit piled on top of it?"

The Lightning Tree by Patrick Rothfuss

#quote #quotes

"Don't be ridiculous," I told myself. "You're seeing conspiracies where they don't exist."

Now Showing by Connie Willis

#quote #quotes

"People can recognize themselves in any story, whether it's about them or not."

The Caravan to Nowhere by Phyllis Eisenstein

#quote #quotes

"Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath."

Ill Seen In Tyre by Steven Saylor

#quote #quotes

"Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think 'There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know'. Has that ever happened to you?"

The Meaning of Love by Daniel Abraham

#quote #quotes

"He's some kind of thing, far be it from me to guess what."

ROARING TWENTIES by Carrie Vaughn

#quote #quotes

This short story has zombies in it, but a different kind than we're used to. It's creepy in a real world way- HERE is an absolutely realistic way a zombie apocalypse could happen, it involves the cruelty of man so you know it is possible.

I love a book of short stories, especially when it has gems.

#ShortStory

"His compliments had a way of causing offense."

TOUGH TIMES ALL OVER by Joe Abercrombie

#quote #quotes

""That can't be," she whispers to herself as she goes back to bed. "It's insane."

Only the world is insane. You only have to watch the news to know it."

#quote #quotes

"Finally, after a few minutes, the words came, something that, I think, covered the enormity of the situation and what I was experiencing in my head."

#quote #quotes

"You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing."

#quote #quotes

""I'm not like him, you know," she said."

#quote #quotes

"A toe of comfort."

#quote #quotes

His mother sighs. "You've always been so afraid of being a horse's ass," she says. "Even as a child."

#quote #quotes

"If he loves her, why has she been exiled?"

#quote #quotes

"She felt as excluded as if she'd been surrounded by a crowd of her own cousins. On both sides. *Kiss me, I'm multicultural*."

#quotes

"Nate feels, not for the first time, that he has told this woman too many things."

#quotes

"The real question is: Does she care whether the human race survives or not?"

#quotes

"When it happened the first time he must have been terrified, it would be like stepping through a usual door and finding yourself in a different galaxy, purple trees and red moons and a green sun."

#quotes