ML Downie

“and i especially don´t like talking to old people. i don´t like having to shout to be heard. i don´t like their turned milk and their soft biscuits. i don´t like their fishy cats and youth dew perfume that smells of mothballs. i don´t like that they grown every time they sit down or stand up., or how loud they have their tv and how much they complain about what´s on tv or how they boast about having their own teeth or why i should be interested in the fact that they can still spell when they´re 89 years old. i´m with the eskimos putting their useless grandparents on ice floes and waving goodbye. this may be monstrous slander on eskimos. it could just as easily be some other tribe with access to large bodies of ice, or just plain water, with crocodiles.”
― Colin Bateman, Mystery Man

“there should be storm-lashed rocks or the hall of the mountain king. but our lives are weighted in cold, white light, and is it even possible to imagine that anyone hears our prayers.”
― John Ajvide Lindqvist, Let the Right One In

“ask me, all mongrels are better than pedigree anything, said the woman. it´s why america is such an interesting country. filled with mongrels.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“all the same, there were some things they needed to learn:
do not drink milk after a thunderstorm, for it will certainly be sour.
always leave out seeds for the birds when the first snow falls.
wash your hair with rosemary.
drink lavender tea when you cannot sleep.
know that the only remedy for love is to love more.”
― Alice Hoffman, The Rules of Magic