Cole Chellgren > Recent Status Updates

"I don't want to talk about how I feel, alright?!"
"Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man. This pain is part of being human!"
"Then I don't want to be human!" (Rowling Chap 37)

"This is not the end. I loved you before I ever
met you. I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness" (Brown 582).

"You destroyed her home. You murdered her sisters. Now you come to take her father. She was a frivolous girl. She would have lived in peace, Darrow, but you have brought her nothing but war" (Brown 565). Oh my god the irony

""We're going to the Citadel," Pax says from behind me.
"Maybe you didn't hear.." I turn and find the tip of a razor centimeters from my right eyeball. He stands in a fencer's position.
"Comply, citizen. Or I'll be forced to learn how to fly a ship."" (Brown 553)

"Cool shock ignites in my cells from my nipples down through my legs and toes, like I've been dunked in ice water. "Oh. I've been shot,"
"Have you been shot before?" Pax asks warily.
"Not exactly. Congratulations, you just saw me get my cherry popped," I say through chattering teeth" (Brown 552).

[Electra (9yo) takes a 2 second glance down a hall of incoming fire and reports exact # of tangos and names the exact make and models of their weaponry]
So, no dolls for you, huh? [Ephraim]
Was this your plan?...How is this your plan? [Electra]
Yap yap yap. You're the one who got kidnapped, dumbass. [Ephraim, who literally kidnapped her]" (Brown 548-549).

"I'm about to leave when I catch sight of a familiar splash of blue and yellow paint on a canvas out of the corner of my eye. It can't be...I laugh incredulously at the picture of Dalí's dread monster: in bright, cracked colors soft watches drape over a tree branch and against the corner of a brown shelf. It is La persistencia de la memoria" (Brown 547).

"-Watch him for a moment. Stick him if he gets out of line. [Ephraim]
-Immobilizing strike or just a flesh wound? [Electra, a literal 9 year old]
-Goryhell. Just watch him. Little psycho. [Ephraim]" (Brown 547)

"They're going to murder me. That's why they brought me to see the ants. They're going to kill me and feed me to the fucking ants...My heart plummets even further into my intestines, hitting each rib on its way down" (Brown 533).

"Communication is the soul of civilization. Otherwise were like them, aren't we? [I nod to the ants.] "Carrying, ferrying, digging, and toiling. If you express yourself only through your work, what are you but an ant?" (Brown 532).

"Curiosity is not a sin...but we should exercise caution with our curiosity" (Rowling 598).

"If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals" (Rowling 525).

"Seeing the joy in my wife's face, I was witnessing another miracle. One, for a long time, I believed I would never see again. Love so potent, so whole and true, that it hurts, because even when you convince yourself that it will last forever, you know enough of the world to see how things break and fade, but somehow, some way, you believe this love will be the excep-tion. That it alone will last" (Brown 496).

"The display does not warm my heart. It shows the vile, maggoty innards of this family. I feel tainted being here with them, breathing the same air, and want nothing more than to be done with this. To be home with my family, to feel real love, not this weird tapestry of domination and cruelty they've woven" (Brown 438).

"I might be a halfbreed," Sevro says. "But at the end of the day, you're still a bitch, and I've still got two ears." He pulls the bootknife, grabs Tharsus' hair, and cuts off his left ear (Brown 436).

"Rhonna, the first rule of war is to know where your enemy is. How can you know where he is if you do not know how many he is?...How can you decide your course if you don't know how many ships she travels with? How many variables are at play for ambushes and coun terattacks?...And more importantly, don't let him bait you...Don't be such an asshole. It's why there's war in the first place" (Brown 426).

"He looks to his brother, something passing between them, some unspoken knowledge that I don't like. It was a risk in letting them reunite" (Brown 439).

"The fourth breath that moves the curtains and twists the flames in the braziers and brings the snow of Hyperion in through an open window and makes [his] cape dance in the wind is that of Luna's winter. Deep in that distant pool of memory, I see him again for the first time" (Brown 447).

"Forcing myself into the Willow Way, imagining my breath as the breeze that moves the branches and sways the grass and kisses the water. A second movement of breath now comes, which moves the lavender and pushes the bees and tinkles the wind chimes of summer at Lake Silene. A third movement is that of fall" (Brown 447).

"This stone is cold like that stone. This pain is deep like that pain. This moment like that moment. Only now, with the passing of [him] there is no one left to hold the boy; all that was left of him is dead, and the life of the man must begin" (Brown 451).

"When the door closes, the composure shivers. First a crack, like a plate of glass struck by an errant pebble. The crack stretches and spreads and proliferates till the whole plate of dignity shatters all at once...A single sob escapes. It is alone in the room. No sound follows it to give it company or comfort. Just one long lament of a wounded animal and I am quiet" (Brown 451).

"Using the claws of others is not brave, nor is it the same as having claws. I would have thought you of all people would know that...One day I will have claws and I will learn to use them, my goodman. Until then, I do believe the claws of others will suffice" (Brown 448).