Kandice Berlin > Kandice's Quotes

“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane or static life, the long anguish of living or dying. After so many years running from fear, fleeing crazily, uselessly, she was finally coming to a halt. At the same time she seemed to be recovering her roots, and the sap rose anew in her body, which was no longer trembling. Pressing her whole belly against the parapet, leaning toward the wheeling sky, she was only waiting for her pounding heart to settle down, and for the silence to form in her. The last constellations of stars fell in bunches a little lower on the horizon of the desert, and stood motionless. Then, with an unbearable sweetness, the waters of the night began to fill her, submerging the cold, rising gradually to the center of her being, and overflowing wave upon wave to her moaning mouth. A moment later, the whole sky stretched out above her as she lay with her back against the cold earth.”
― Albert Camus

“The flies festered over the bodies, in some way aware that the war had ended and determined to hoard every morsel of flesh for the coming famine of the peace.”
― J.G. Ballard

“There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“It was the day my grandmother exploded.”
― Iain Banks, The Crow Road

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they
speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they
have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.”
― Douglas Coupland, Hey Nostradamus!

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

“I believed that I was alone in my struggle and that my battle was one of survival.”
― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"

“For her I bend, for you I break.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“The blast of hot air lifted Tazeem from his feet and threw him onto his back in the road. He blinked up into the night sky; raindrops glowed orange as they fell towards the earth.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“while the jukebox sang softly to itself.”
― Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son

“-Mon cher jeune homme, dit Aglaé en souriant, j'ai été professeur de chimie et je vous ferai remarquer qu'il peut y avoir des réactions en chaîne, qui partent très doucement et, s'alimentant elles-mêmes, peuvent se terminer de façon violente.”
― Boris Vian, L'Herbe rouge