Ruby Rue > Ruby's Quotes

“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm

“I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

“Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Նիզարը տատիս ասել է, որ վերևից եկածների հետ հարկավոր է քաղաքավարի ու հոգնակի խոսել։
Տատս կարագն ու կաթը ձեռքին ներս է մտել ու. «Բարև ձեզ, բատոնեբո, մենք ջաղչիբան Օնանի կնիկներն ենք»։
Միլիցիոներները նրա ետևից էլի կանանց են սպասել, հետո գլխի են ընկել, որ տատս «քաղաքավարի» է խոսում, հռհռացել են։”
― Levon Khechoyan, Խնկի ծառեր

“Unwisely, Santa offered a teddy bear to James, unaware
he had been mauled by a grizzly earlier this year.”
― Tim Burton, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

“That woman, as nature has created her and as man is at present educating her, is his enemy. She can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. This she can become only when she has the same rights as he, and is his equal in education and work.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Satan has been the best friend the church has ever had, as he has kept it in business all these years!”
― Anton LaVey, The Satanic Bible

“We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!”
― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”
― Neil Gaiman

“«Լինում է, չի լինում, մի աղջնակ է լինում: Մի անգամ մոլորվում է ու անհետ կորչում»: «Էդ հեքիաթը գիտեմ»-կտրում է տղան: «Սա ուրիշ է, առարկեց պապը,-հաստատ էս մեկը չգիտես: Ծնողները չեն գտնում նրան: Մտածում-մտածում են՝ ոնց գտնեն իրենց աղջկան, ու որոշում են են քար կանգնացնել և այդ քարի վրա պատկերել աղջկա նկարը»: «Ինչի՞»: «Որ փոքրիկ աղջիկը քարի նկարով ճանաչի իրեն ու չհեռանա մոտից...»”
― Hrachya Saribekyan, Երկվորյակների արևը

“If Hell is other people... then Purgatory is airports.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Hey," said Shadow. "Huginn or Muninn, or whoever you are."
The bird turned, head tipped, suspiciously, on one side, and it stared at him with bright eyes.
"Say 'Nevermore,'" said Shadow.
"Fuck you," said the raven.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“City of Vassillian a party of five sage princes with four horses. The princes, who are of course brave, noble and wise, travel widely in distant lands, fight giant ogres, pursue exotic philosophies, take tea with weird gods and rescue beautiful monsters from ravening princesses before finally announcing that they have achieved enlightenment and that their wanderings are therefore accomplished. The second, and much longer, part of each song would then tell of all their bickerings about which one of them is going to have to walk back. All this lay in the planet’s remote past.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Who was I now—woman or man? That question could never be answered as long as those were the only choices; it could never be answered if it had to be asked.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues