Gig > Gig's Quotes

“Funny thing, your brain,
how it always functions on one
level or another. How, even stuck in
some sort of subconcious limbo, it works
your lungs, your muscle twitches, your heart,
in fact, in symphony with your heart, allowing it
to feel love. Pain. Jealousy. Guilt. I wonder if it’s the
same for people, lost in comas. Is there really such a thing”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“How could I share the
way my heart was breaking
when my confessor
didn’t believe”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“The problem with resolutions is they're only as solid as the person making them.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“How can I explain purposely setting foot on a path so blatantly treacherous? Was the fun in the fall?”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“We kissed for about
the thousandth time,
No promises,
no demands,
Just solid rebuilding
of shattered trust.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Life was good
before I
met
the monster.
After,
life
was great
At least
for a little while”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Alone, there is only the person inside. I've grown to like her better than the stuck-up husk of me. Alone, there is no perfect daughter, no gifted high school junior, no Kristina Georgia Snow. There is only Bree." (Ellen Hopkins)”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“He did seem like a nice boy. Seeming and being are two different things.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Bree was not an invention, not a stranger. Bree was the essence of me.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?"
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― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“Harder yet to get back up without tripping and falling all over again.”
― Ellen Hopkins, Crank

“To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.”
― Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

“Each person whoever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their songs instead.
Take Daisy, for example. Her song, which had been somewhere in the back of her head for most of her life, had a reassuring, marching sort of beat, and words that were about protecting the weak, and it had a chorus that began “Evildoers beware!” and was thus much too silly ever to be sung out loud. She would hum it to herself sometimes though, in the shower, during the soapy bits.
And that is, more or less, everything you need to know about Daisy. The rest is details.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“It begins, as most things begin, with a song.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said Spider. “These things are wine, women and song.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Impossible things happen. When they do happen, most people just deal with it. Today, like every day, roughly five thousand people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things, and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses. Most of them will say the equivalent, in their own language, of “Funny old world, isn’t it?” and just keep going.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“Daisy was starting to feel like the kind of cop you only ever see in movies: tough, hard-bitten, and perfectly ready to buck the system; the kind of cop who wants to know whether or not you feel lucky or if you’re interested in making his day, and particularly the kind of cop who says “I’m getting too old for this shit.” She was twenty-six years old, and she wanted to tell people she was too old for this shit. She was quite aware of how ridiculous this was, thank you very much.”
― Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys

“There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

“I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it." - Gabriel Marez”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

“Understanding comes with life. As a man grows he sees life and death, he is happy and sad, he works, plays, meets people - sometimes it takes a lifetime to acquire understanding, because in the end understanding simply means having sympathy for people. ”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

“Ultima said to take life's experiences and build strength from them, not weakness.”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

“If the old religion could no longer answer the questions of the children then perhaps it was time to change it.”
― Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

“We do this because the world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.”
― Cisneros Sandra