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“A weed is a plant out of place.’ Let me repeat that. A weed is a plant out of place.’ I find a hollyhock in my cornfield, and it’s a weed. I find it in my yard, and it’s a flower.”
― The Killer Inside Me
― The Killer Inside Me
“Like colors or a spring tree against that kind of blue sky that pulls your heart out through your eyes. Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees.”
― Geek Love
― Geek Love
“The belief that we somehow moved on to something else - whether still recognisably ourselves, or quite thoroughly changed - might be a tribute to our evolutionary tenacity and our animal thirst for life, but not to our wisdom. That saw a value beyond itself; in intelligence, knowledge and wit as concepts - wherever and by whoever expressed - not just in its own personal manifestation of those qualities, and so could contemplate its own annihilation with equanimity, and suffer it with grace; it was only a sort of sad selfishness that demanded the continuation of the individual spirit in the vanity and frivolity of a heaven.”
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“I mean, nobody tells you sex is going to be so _noisy_, do they? ...”
― The Crow Road
― The Crow Road
“توصل جوناثان إلى حقيقة مفادها أن الناس لا يمكن الوثوق بهم أو الاعتماد عليهم , وأن المرء لن يجد الطمأنينة والسلام في حياته إلا إذا نجح في الابتعاد عنهم.”
― The Pigeon
― The Pigeon
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