Reminds me of a lyric from The Speed of Love: ... (love) moves towards a higher plane/Where two halves make two wholes
Book Quotes: King And Beyond.
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Reminds me of a lyric from The Speed of Love: ... (love) moves towards a higher plane/Where two halves make two wholes
"A word spoken at the right time--how good it is!" (Proverbs 15: 23)
"In order to find his equal, an Irishman is forced to talk to God". Stephen the mad Irishman... Braveheart.
"Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to''... Delores Claibourne... Don't know why, I just like this one.
And here's one I like not from a book, but from Bruce Lee. "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
"Sometimes, being a bitch is all a woman has to hang on to''... Delores Claibourne... Don't know why, I just like this one.
And here's one I like not from a book, but from Bruce Lee. "Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one."
...Almost forgot..."all who wander arw not lost"... The Hobbit.
I taught myself to fart smoke rings in three different colors, now that was impressive. I'm glad someone is having fun with the end of the world. What makes you think the world is ending? He sounded genuinely suprised. Sure looks like the end of the world to me. 15 million people are infected. Maine is more like Mordor now.
The Fireman. Amazing the skill writing here. Combines trajedy with humor and pulls it off.
The Fireman. Amazing the skill writing here. Combines trajedy with humor and pulls it off.
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"To hell with all that," began the Sheriff, and was again interrupted by Mrs. Buster, who said that under no circumstances would she tolerate swearing: Will we, Reverend? and the Reverend, backing her up, said he'd be damned if they would.
~Truman Capote, The Grass Harp
~Truman Capote, The Grass Harp
"Every killing is a hard killing," said Hospital Tommy. "Killing anybody is hard. You see those movies where the hero puts his hands around somebody's neck and the victim coughs a little bit and expires? Don't believe it, my friends. The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger."
-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
-Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion thatthey are gods."
-Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
-Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Good quote but
my cats are actually quite affectionate ☺
“I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you look at everything you've bought in your life, and you remember how much it meant to you, and now you just tag it for a quarter and watch 'em carry it off, and you don't care. That's more like how it was.”
―Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
―Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"This is a difficult thing for a father to explain to his daughter, Ruthie. But...if nakedness- I mean the feeling of nakedness- is what a nude must convey, there is no nakedness that compares to what it feels like to be naked in front of someone for the first time."
-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
-John Irving, A Widow For One Year
With his heart continually assuring him that he was despicable, he could not exist without making it, through his actions, apparent to all men.
Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cane
Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Cane
“So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
“Although they had been honed like hawks toward the guns since early childhood, Cuthbert and Alain still carried an erroneous belief common to many boys their age: that their elders were also their betters, at least in such matters as planning and wit; they actually believed that grownups knew what they were doing.”
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
― Stephen King, Wizard and Glass
“Books, I think, are a different kind of time machine. instead of reminding you of a lost world, they create one for you. More personal, more intimate-unlike movies, say, the world you experience while reading a book has been lived and envisioned entirely from the INSIDE, and its contours are yours alone.”
― Neil Peart, Far and Away: A Prize Every Time
― Neil Peart, Far and Away: A Prize Every Time
"I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall."
-from After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall."
-from After Apple-Picking by Robert Frost.
"I didn’t go to the moon. I went much further, for time is the longest distance between two places. Not long after that I left St. Louis. I descended the steps of our fire escape for the last time and from then on I followed in my father’s footsteps attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. I traveled around a great deal. The city swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped but I was pursued by something that always came upon me unawares taking me all together by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass. Perhaps I’m walking along the street at night in some strange city before I have found companions. And I pass a lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. Windows filled with pieces of colored glass. Tiny transparent bottles and delicate colors like bits of a shattered rainbow. Then all at once my sister touches my shoulder and I turn around and look into her eyes. … Laura. Laura. I tried so hard to leave you behind me but I am more faithful than I intended to be. I reach for a cigarette, I cross a street, I run to the movies or to a bar. I buy a drink. I speak to the nearest stranger. Anything that will blow your candles out. For nowadays the world is lit by lightning. Blow out your candles Laura. And so goodbye."
-The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
-The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams
“Out on the road outside Cheyenne Wells a great argument developed between Pomeray and Old Bull as to whether they were going to buy a little whiskey or lot of wine, one being a wino, the other an alcoholic. Not having eaten for a long time, feverish, they leaped out of the car and started making brawling gestures at each other which were supposed to represent a fistfight between two men...and the next moment they were embracing each other, old Pomeray tearfully, Old Bull raising his eyes with lonely sarcasm at the huge and indefatigable heavens above Colorado...because everybody was in a hole during the Depression, and felt it”
--Kerouac, Visions of Cody
--Kerouac, Visions of Cody