“I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.”
― Ask the Dust
― Ask the Dust
“Queen Elizabeth was rather a flirt all her life. She finally developed a bad habit of boxing her partners' ears and shouting "god's death, I'll have thy head!" This discouraged some of her more sensitive partners,”
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― The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody: Great Figures of History Hilariously Humbled
“She smells like angels ought to smell, the perfect woman... the Goddess. Goldie. She says her name is Goldie.”
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
― Sin City Volume 1: The Hard Goodbye
“They reminded me that it was my fate to pursue only phantoms, creatures whose reality existed to a great extent in my imagination; for there are people - and this had been my case since youth - for whom all the things that have a fixed value, assessable by others, fortune, success, high positions, do not count; what they must have is phantoms. They sacrifice all the rest, devote all their efforts, make everything else subservient to the pursuit of some phantom. But this soon fades away; then they run after another only to return later on to the first.”
― In Search of Lost Time
― In Search of Lost Time
“The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never.”
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
― Sin City, Vol. 3: The Big Fat Kill
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