“Tonight isn't about more dark, it's about more nothing.”
― Disappearance at Devil's Rock
― Disappearance at Devil's Rock
“I could do without Oprah, but a life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is... like a life without pictures.”
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“Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you're telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.”
― The Last Days of Jack Sparks
― The Last Days of Jack Sparks
“But I follow my gut, and my gut says we meet this one head-on with smiles on our faces. Look," said Locke, "the more we do this, the more I learn about what I think Chains was really training us for. And this is it. He wasn't training us for a calm and orderly world where we could pick and choose when we needed to be clever. He was training us for a situation that was fucked up on all sides. Well, we're in it, and I say we're equal to it. I don't need to be reminded that we are up to our heads in dark water. I just want you boys to remember that we're the gods-damned sharks.”
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
― The Lies of Locke Lamora
“See, this is my opinion: we all start out knowing magic. We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out, and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow and told to be responsible. Told to act our age. Told to grow up, for God's sake. And you know why we were told that? Because the people doing the telling were afraid of our wildness and youth, and because the magic we knew made them ashamed and sad of what they'd allowed to wither in themselves.”
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