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“The water far below was black in the shadow of the ship. A plank creaked. She froze. No noisy jump. It would have to be a dive. Head down into darkness. She’d never dived at night.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,” laughed Adam. “We won’t have to dispose of the body. I’ll get a pan and brush in a minute and flush him down the toilet.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Genius disregards the boundaries of propriety. Genius is permitted to shout if shouting is productive.”
― Lois Lowry

“Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?"
"Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“The same outer object may suggest either of many realities formerly associated with it—for in the vicissitudes of our outer experience we are constantly liable to meet the same thing in the midst of differing companions. William James,
The Principles of Psychology”
― Caleb Carr, The Alienist

“Habit is my true, my wedded wife.”
― Wallace Stegner

“Did he just say--?"
"Yes," Claire said, smiling. "Yes, he did."
"Whoa. Guess I'd better stay alive, then.”
― Rachel Caine, Lord of Misrule

“She was everything I wanted. She was beautiful and charming, with a quick sense of humor, and she supported me in everything I did.”
― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

“But when people talk about it they call it The Zombie Room.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“They can make all the plans they want but it doesn't mean I have to cooperate with them”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“But sir…’
     ‘Don’t worry I said I’ll do it,’ snapped the President.
     ‘But sir there’s just one other thing.’
     The President held the club in his hands like a seasoned baseball star. He glanced over at the Phlegm-O-Matic resting in the legionnaire’s rusted hand. ‘What?’
     ‘That protocol doesn’t include you.’
     The President’s shoulders sank and the air left his lungs in a rush. The legionnaire turned and aimed the gun at him.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“It gave me a feeling of temporary acceptance into that elite community, to stroll across the quad at his side. It also gave me my first faint quiver of sexual belonging, the elusive feeling that if I slipped my hand into his as we walked along, a door would fall open somewhere in the long wall of reality as I knew it, never to be closed again.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

“Když jsou hodní lidé, které máme rádi, je v tom stejně vždycky očekávání a naděje na opětovanou lásku. Ale cizí lidi tím nic nezískají, jen ve světě narůstá celkové množství lásky. A za tuhle lásku jsem vděčná.”
― Robert Fulghum

“Тоскливое состояние"!...
Нет, я, заболевший этой ужасной болезнью, предупреждаю врачей, чтобы они были жалстливее к своим пациентам. Не "тоскливое состояние", а смерть медленная овладевает морфинистом, лишь только вы на час или два лишите его морфия. Воздух не сытнй, его глотать нельзя... в теле нет клеточки, которая бы не жаждела... Чего? Этого нельзя ни определить, не объяснить. Словом, человека нет. Он выключен. Движется, тоскует, страдает труп. Он ничего не хочет, ни о чем не мыслит, кроме морфия. Морфия!
Смерть от жажды - райскаяб блаженная смерть по сравнению с жаждой морфия. Так заживо погребенный, вероятно, ловит последние ничтожные пузырьки воздуха в гробу и раздирает кожу на груди ногтями. Так еретик на костре стонет и шевелится, когда первые языки пламени лижут его ноги...
Смерть - сухая, медленная смерть...
Вот что кроется под этими профессорскими словами "Тоскливое состояние".”
― Mikhail Bulgakov, Morphine

“the values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs over adversity.”
― Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

“Joy said she hadn't really understood the meaning of life until Tyffanie had come along, but now she understood it perfectly. Well, great, I felt like saying. Make sure you share the news with Plato and Kierkegaard and all those other philosophers who'd banged their heads against the wall, trying to figure things out.”
― Wally Lamb, I Know This Much Is True