Kami Paluk > Kami's Quotes

“It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.”
― Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

“The reason all of this is so horrible,” McVries said, “is because it’s just trivial. You know? We’ve sold ourselves and traded our souls on trivialities.”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow.”
― Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects

“The only serious question in life is whether to kill yourself or not.”
― Albert Camus

“White Sky. Trees fading at the skyline, the mountains gone. My hands dangled from the cuffs of my jacket as if they weren’t my own. I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew -the outline of a single tree standing in for a grove, lamp-posts and chimneys floating up out of context before the surrounding canvas was filled in-an amnesia-land, a kind of skewed Heaven where the old landmarks were recognizable but spaced too far apart, and disarranged, and made terrible by the emptiness around them.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Сын, сын, мой сын. У меня будет сын, и я объясню ему все это, когда он подрастет и сможет понять меня. Однако только лишь подумав это, я уже знал: никогда он не поймет, да и не захочет он ничего понимать, а делать будет все те же vestshi, которые и я делал, – да-да, он, может быть, даже убьет какую-нибудь старую ptitsu, окруженную мяукающими kotami и koshkami, и я не смогу остановить его. А он не сможет остановить своего сына. И так по кругу до самого конца света – по кругу, по кругу, по кругу, будто какой-то огромный великан, какой-нибудь Бог или Gospodd (спасибо бару «Korova») все крутит и крутит в огромных своих ручищах voniutshi griaznyi апельсин.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Be patient, Ophelia.

Love,
Hamlet”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“É, o mundo moderno tem um tipo de seleção natural e não tem jeito de eu me encaixar nessa história não. Os bichano tipo eu acabam tudo extinto.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams....”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine: Tales of Shame and Degradation in the '80's

“I am just two and two. I am hot. I am cold. I'm the parent of numbers that cannot be told. I'm a gift beyond measure, a matter of course, and I'm yielded with pleasure- when taken by force.”
― L.J. Smith, The Forbidden Game

“I’ll be Odysseus. You be Achilles.” “Achilles dies in the end.” “Then learn from his mistakes.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“When one does not know what one seeks, caution is the surest armour.”
― Steven Erikson, Midnight Tides

“Short on money, long on hope”
― Kim Edwards

“You were the best thing that ever happened to me. I hope someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it’s only you.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“It feels like you can’t breathe, but you actually are breathing. It feels like you’ll never stop crying, but you actually will.”
― Liane Moriarty, The Husband's Secret

“He is very short-sighted and thus walks happily through this world blind to all its ugliness. For him, daily life passes in a pleasant blur.”
― Margaret Weis, Kingmaker

“Humans are vulnerable, because they’re capable of being hurt.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush