Vannessa Perriott > Vannessa's Quotes

“He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Solutions like, We solve the problems? Or solutions like, We dissolve fuckers in acid?”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke

“Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.”
― Ian McEwan, Sweet Tooth

“Just like I didn't dare tell Jack that I was falling in love with him when I was down in Texas, wanting to be a modern woman who's supposed to be able to handle the casual nature of these kinds of relationships. I'm never supposed to say, to Jack or anyone else, what makes you think I'm so rich that you can steal my heart and it won't mean a thing?”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“It is hereby certified that the bearer, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the
said night at Satan’s ball, having been summoned there in the capacity of a means of transportation…make a parenthesis, Hella, in the parenthesis put “hog". Signed — Behemoth.”
― Bulgakov

“Οι άνθρωποι δεν είναι συνέχεια δυστυχισμένοι παρά μόνο στα κακά μυθιστορήματα· στην πραγματικότητα είναι πολύ απασχολημένοι.”
― Arthur Koestler, Ισπανική διαθήκη

“May no Evil Eye peek thru window, keyhole or gunsight at his white haired face!”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Fall of America: Poems of These States 1965-1971

“So I thought, you know, Teach me about death, Satan, I don’t care. And it was all about murder, which was great because when you’re not the one getting murdered, murder’s the ultimate interesting thing. I totally agree with that.”
― Dennis Cooper, Ugly Man

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe