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  • #1
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

  • #2
    “If your world is out there and you are in here then the only things that will gather within these walls are time and bitterness. Eventually, that bitterness will eat away at you and leave nothing behind but resentment and hate.”
    R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

  • #3
    Douglas Coupland
    “My secret is that I need God—that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind, as I no longer seem capable of kindness; to help me love, as I seem beyond being able to love.”
    Douglas Coupland

  • #4
    Irvine Welsh
    “This thought though, is nowhere near sufficient tae stop us fae daein what ah huv tae dae.”
    Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

  • #5
    “There are no more barriers to cross. All I have in common with the uncontrollable and the insane, the vicious and the evil, all the mayhem I have caused and my utter indifference toward it I have now surpassed. My pain is constant and sharp and I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others. I want no one to escape, but even after admitting this there is no catharsis, my punishment continues to elude me and I gain no deeper knowledge of myself; no new knowledge can be extracted from my telling. This confession has meant nothing. ”
    Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

  • #6
    “...we are going to understand all about the difference between people and pieces of paper in a file, and the difference between doing your job and getting jobbed...”
    Richard Bachman (Pseudonym), Stephen King, Rage

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to imagine what might be under there. It might not be the standard thing. Imagine, stripping a woman down, and she has a body like a little submarine. With periscope, propellers, torpedoes. That would be the one for me. I'd marry her right off and be faithful to the end.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #8
    Donna Tartt
    “И аз чувствам, че има нещо много сериозно, много важно, което трябва да ти кажа, мой несъществуващи читателю, и чувствам, че трябва да го кажа така настоятелно, както ако стоях в стаята пред теб. Че животът – какъвто и други качества да има – е кратък. Че съдбата е жестока, но може би не е произволна. Че Природата (с което искам да кажа Смъртта) винаги побеждава, но това не означава, че трябва да се преклоним, да коленичим пред нея. Че дори ако невинаги сме щастливи, че сме тук, нашата задача е да се потопим в живота така или иначе; да газим право напред, напряко през тази помийна яма, с отворени очи и открити сърца. И когато умираме, когато се издигаме над материалното и когато потъваме отново, позорно, в материалното, за нас е гордост и привилегия да обичаме онова, което смъртта не може да докосне. Защото, макар че забвението и злополучията са преследвали тази картина през вековете – по същия начин я е преследвала и любовта. И доколкото тя е безсмъртна (а тя е безсмъртна), аз имам един мъничък, светъл, непроменим дял в това безсмъртие. И аз добавям своята любов към историята на хората, които са обичали красивите неща, които са ги търсили, които са ги спасявали от огъня, издирвали са ги, когато са изчезнели, опитвали са се да ги съхранят и да ги спасят, предавайки ги буквално от ръка на ръка и, сияйната им песен се издига над разрухата на времето и достига до нови и нови поколения любители на красотата.”
    Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

  • #9
    J.G. Ballard
    “Yet she felt an impostor, and already the mask had begun to bite into her face.”
    J.G. Ballard

  • #10
    Richelle Mead
    “Dimitri: "She might be wild and disrespectful, but if she has potential—"
    Rose: "Wild and disrespecful? Who the hell are you anyway? Oursourced help?"
    Kirova: "Guardian Belikov is the Princess Lissa's guardian now, her sanctioned guardian."
    Rose: "You got cheap foreign labor to protect Lissa?”
    Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

  • #11
    Abbi Glines
    “If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.”
    Abbi Glines, Twisted Perfection

  • #12
    John Grisham
    “The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.”
    John Grisham, A Painted House



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