“News had reached his ears that they planned to distribute mixtures alongside Route One and Route Twenty-two to kill the vegetation there. Depriving ambushers of cover was a good idea, he thought. But this was the loveliest country on the earth. Sorrow and war lay all over it, true, but the sickness of sorrow had never before penetrated the land itself. He didn’t like to see it poisoned.”
― Tree of Smoke
― Tree of Smoke
“Anyone who says "Trust me" is the last motherfucker you should ever trust.”
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“Of course it was horrible,' smiled Dr. Branom. 'Violence is a very horrible thing. That's what you're learning now. Your body is learning it.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.”
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“When you live in the city, you learn to take nothing for granted. Close your eyes for a moment, turn around to look at something else, and the thing that was before you is suddenly gone. Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you mustn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.”
― In the Country of Last Things
― In the Country of Last Things
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