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  • #1
    Dermot Davis
    “Could the entire notion of finding one’s soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the “soul mate” really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find?”
    Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

  • #2
    Dermot Davis
    “Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.”
    Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

  • #3
    Dermot Davis
    “Women want a lot of sex with the man they love; men want to have a lot of sex with a lot of different women.”
    Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

  • #4
    Dermot Davis
    “Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.”
    Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

  • #5
    Dermot Davis
    “What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.”
    Dermot Davis, Stormy Weather

  • #6
    Dermot Davis
    “Crazy people love their Kindles.”
    Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

  • #7
    Dermot Davis
    “People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”
    Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

  • #8
    Dermot Davis
    “By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.”
    Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

  • #9
    Dermot Davis
    “The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.”
    Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

  • #10
    Dermot Davis
    “Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.”
    Dermot Davis, The Younger Man

  • #11
    Dermot Davis
    “Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.”
    Dermot Davis, The Younger Man

  • #12
    Dermot Davis
    “Guys get a bad rap for not wanting to talk about their feelings but maybe women are in part to blame for that. One thing that I learned from working with people where English was not their first language was this: just because they don’t speak your language doesn’t mean that they’re dumb. Maybe we just need to talk more slowly, use simpler words and have lots more patience.”
    Dermot Davis, The Younger Man

  • #13
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #14
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “I haven’t got time for a love life and that’s usually frustrating to the would-be lovers. Care to make a run for it?”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #15
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.”
    Benjamin R. Smith

  • #16
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “After a good roll in the hay, when he’s all peaceful and serene and he hasn’t a worry or a care in the world, and the euphoric calm of release is drifting through his cerebrum, that’s when you broadside him with the cold cruel fact that his life as he knows it is over!”
    Benjamin R. Smith, June Cleaver Sexual Deviant

  • #17
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “WARD: I’ll be home in time for dinner, honey.
    JUNE: Alright—I’m pregnant—Have a fine day at work, dear.

    WARD exits… WARD reenters.

    JUNE: Did you forget something, dear?

    WARD: What did you say?
    JUNE: I asked if you’d forgotten anything—”
    Benjamin R. Smith, June Cleaver Sexual Deviant

  • #18
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “I’m going to become a beat poet and a lesbian!”
    Benjamin R. Smith, June Cleaver Sexual Deviant

  • #19
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “Don't you read the statistics? Guns are unisex these days.”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #20
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “I built them what they wanted and I made a profit off of it. Now they call me a god...What fools these mortals be.”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #21
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “Nice dress,” Victoria said.
    “Thank you,” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?”
    Victoria blinked. “Uh, what?”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #22
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “I do not believe in using infants for nefarious activities.”
    Benjamin R. Smith

  • #23
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).”
    Benjamin R. Smith

  • #24
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “In some literature, I’ve read, weather is used as a metaphor. The darker and stormier the weather outside the more diabolical the deeds done. When the clouds roll away, however, the rain has washed away all the blood in the streets and the world is clean and new again, as if all the violence and destruction of the storm served a divine purpose.”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #25
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “It's a big spooky place when you're in it alone. It's like you can hear all the whispers of all the voices of all the actors who ever played here. Kind of creepy. Like a church can be creepy when it's empty. You ever been in a church after hours?”
    Benjamin R. Smith

  • #26
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separate and superior. Few of them left the comfort and security of Atlantis. To them the outside world was weak. Second Sector citizens where miscreant dregs of a defunct society. In order to enter the Atlantian dome one first had to be cleared by a resident. Gate security personnel strictly enforced this rule, even when outsiders carried a badge and gun.”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #27
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “Writing Vampire Erotica is like writing sex scenes for porcupines.”
    Benjamin R. Smith

  • #28
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “Some people, when there’s a threat of everything they have being ripped away at a moments notice, they place value on the things they can keep with them, or find anywhere, so they can say ‘these are my things, nobody else can touch them.’ ”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #29
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

  • #30
    Benjamin R.  Smith
    “Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.”
    Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas



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