Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“One person can't hold anything, but two can have the world...”
― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“she had given me a piece of what made her life sane.”
― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“If you do it once, it’s a mistake. If you do it twice, it’s not a mistake anymore.”
― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“His seat belt was on, and his hands dropped from where he’d been fiddling with the visor.

“You look small,” he finally said, looking both innocent and wise.”
― Kim Harrison, A Fistful of Charms

“I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“I guess the basic difference is that animation is sequential in time but in spatially juxtaposed as comics are.

Each successive frame of a movie is projected on exactly the same space--the screen--while each frame of comics must occupy a different space.

Space does for comics what time does for film!”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“Through traditional realism, the comics artist can portray the world without--

--and through the cartoon, the world within.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“This phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole has a name. It's called closure.

In our daily lives, we often commit closure, mentally completing that which is incomplete based on past experience.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only exist in time--sound.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided. The durations of that time and the dimensions of that space are defined more by contents of the panel than by the panel itself.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

“There were no more choices, no more options, no more clever ways out of a tough situation. And the rush, I realized in a brutal wash of despair, is a false god I’ve chased my entire life. One that cost me everything in the blind search for sensation. My entire existence amounted to nothing.”
― Kim Harrison, For a Few Demons More

“And what’s important to you?” I asked.
Marshal thought while we maneuvered around Darth Vader, who was struggling to keep from hitting the wall with his helmet blocking his vision. “Success at work. Having fun doing it. Caring for someone and supporting their interests because you like to see them happy. Having them care about and support yours simply because they want to see you happy.”
― Kim Harrison

“Sometimes it takes a two-by-four across your head to realize what you want isn't what you'll end up with if you get it.”
― Kim Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails

“Anything worth having is going to be hard,”
― Kim Harrison, The Outlaw Demon Wails

“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”
― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon

“You need a new hobby, Rachel. Something other than nasty little men with visions of world domination.”
― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon

“It wasn’t that the dark side was stronger, but that everything was the dark side. All magic was inherently wrong, and it was only us fooling ourselves that some of it was good, some of it was bad. Magic…just was.”
― Kim Harrison, Pale Demon

“Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.
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― Kim Harrison, White Witch, Black Curse

“The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Poor White

“Janet showed her teeth. “Time to get real, Sarah. No more human sacrifices, got it?”
― Susan Rowland, The Sacred Well Murders