Sabina Reichert > Sabina's Quotes

“there’s a difference between being unashamed of your scars and putting them out for everyone to comment on.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Vanishing Season

“Being Ymor’s right-hand man was like being gently flogged to death with scented bootlaces.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“A brief silvery flash in the landscape may have been the little river that overflowed into the air at the plateau’s rim. Rincewind tried to force the memory out of his mind, but it was rather enjoying itself there, terrorizing the other occupants and kicking over the furniture.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“​Her voice still sounded the way wasabi tastes.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“Most human virtues, I would argue, are social virtues. To the extent that we care about love, justice, or kindness, we care about how people enact these virtues with respect to other people. No one is interested in whether you love yourself, whether you are just to yourself, or whether you are kind to yourself. People care about whether you show these qualities to others. And so friendship lays the foundation for morality.”
― Nicholas A. Christakis, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

“A gun, a backup gun, and enough cash for two boring weeks or two interesting days.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three

“Chapter Forty-One Some time passed. It's hard to say how much, exactly.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three

“​“I didn’t understand any of that,” I said. ​Roger chuckled, “That’s fair. It’s not terribly important right now anyway. Maybe we’ll touch more upon it in the fourth book.” ​“The fourth what?” ​“Never mind.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Three

“What’s ‘catch these hands’ in Latin?”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four

“He looked like God got drunk and decided to make a person but realized halfway through that He didn’t have all the ingredients and tried to wing it with spare parts.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four

“To hide inside MI5 for nearly thirty years, while protecting a host of Soviet spies and covering his tracks, would have required a spy of rare intellectual agility. No one would have described Roger Hollis that way. He was a plodding, slightly droopy bureaucrat with the imaginative flair of an omelet.”
― Ben Macintyre, Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy

“That’s a big old nope sandwich with a side of hell naw slaw. I’d heard enough. I did my part, and if there was a magical flying intangible forest baby somewhere out there, I’d leave it to the professionals to figure out where it went.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“My advice to you is the same as always. Lawyer up, delete Facebook, hit the gym. In that order. You can’t go wrong.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“I swear, ever since Romero made zombies cool, people see a dead man come back to life and instantly they get this urge to kill, kill, kill. What ever happened to calling this a miracle? Nobody freaked out when Jesus came back.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One

“Demons were one thing, but anyone who’s ever been attacked by a goose can tell you that they’re aggressive apex predators descended from dinosaurs. And unlike demons, geese can’t be tricked, befriended, or reasoned with. If one of those honking bastards was sitting here waiting for us like a drug dealer we owed money, then a fight wasn’t just likely, it was inevitable.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four

“Humans are programmed from birth to push themselves way beyond what’s necessary. Self-care is demonized, except where utterly necessary for the survival of the working stock. Everyone is struggling to make it to the next step, looking forward to that moment when life is going to finally get a little better, and only then will we be allowed to relax. But there is no plateau. It’s a steady incline until death.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four

“When I tried to show him how an electromagnet works by making a little coil of wire and hanging a nail on a piece of string, I put the voltage on, the nail swung into the coil, and Jerry said, “Ooh! It’s just like fucking!” So that was the end of that.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

“So I found things that even more people believe, such as that we have some knowledge of how to educate. There are big schools of reading methods and mathematics methods, and so forth, but if you notice, you’ll see the reading scores keep going down—or hardly going up—in spite of the fact that we continually use these same people to improve the methods. There’s a witch doctor remedy that doesn’t work.”
― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character

“The unconscious mind is not logical; it’s all about feelings. It is the source of love, desire, fear, jealousy, sadness, joy, anger, and more. The unconscious mind drives your emotions and desires. When you make a conscious decision to quit or cut back on alcohol, your unconscious desires remain unchanged. You have unknowingly created an internal conflict.”
― Annie Grace, This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness & Change Your Life