I’m going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.
I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921.
There’s an expression, deja vu, that means that you feel like you’ve been somewhere before, that you’ve somehow already dreamed it or experienced it in your mind.
Not gay, just never met the right woman.
I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.
Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.
Work. Home. The pub. Meeting girls. Living in the city. Life. Is that all there is?
Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead.
We often confuse what we wish for with what is.
Remember your name. Do not lose hope – what you seek will be found.
There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.
The wise man knows when to keep silent. Only the fool tells all he knows.
What do stars do? They shine.
I will be a wise and tolerant monarch, dispencing justice fairly, and only setting nightmares to rip out the winds of the evil and the wicked. Or just anybody that I don’t like.
This little piggy went to Hades This little piggy stayed home This little piggy ate raw and steaming human flesh This little piggy violated virgins And this little piggy clambered over a heap of dead bodies to get to the top.
Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.
It won’t hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did. She shook her head.