Bobette Raper > Bobette's Quotes

“Love: a hybrid emotion made up of various other emotions collaged by some weak individual's mind to try to quell a particular horror that's not been wiped out by more standardized symbols like Christ, etc. Nietzsche, right? Whatever.”
― Dennis Cooper, Try

“There is evil! It's actual, like cement.

I can't believe it. I can't stand it.

Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“Anything that humanity does from here on out is a wave at the band as we leave the dance floor.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack

“She didn't want to know how a thing was done, but why.... Luckily, queer ones like her don't happen often.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“ennui”
― Alissa Nutting, Tampa

“She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good.”
― Jim Thompson, The Killer Inside Me

“All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita