Carter Bratton > Carter's Quotes

“Mead.
O sweet elixir,
Ye bless the lips and steal the wits.
 ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

“And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths—not always. Sometimes their breathing is hoarse, sometimes it rattles, sometimes they cry out to you, Don’t let me go! Even the old sometimes say, Don’t let me go! As if you were able to stop them! Funerals are quiet with pretty flowers. And oh, what gorgeous boxes they pack them away in!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“أيتها الصداقة لولاك لكان المرء وحيدا وبفضلك يستطيع المرء أن يضاعف نفسه وأن يحيا في نفوس الأخرين.”
― فولتير

“I am me, a unique individual who aspires to be happier than she already is.”
― L.C. Conn

“It wasn’t perfect, but it would do for a few seconds, long enough to hole up and wait for the shooting to die down. Only it didn’t. Pistols, shotguns, and that clatter you never forget, the kind that tells you someone has a Kalashnikov.”
― Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.”
― E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

“what choice have I? I cannot live without you, but I will not destroy your soul."
-Edward Cullen”
― Stephenie Meyer