Tommy > Tommy's Quotes

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.”
― Markus Zusak

“...there would be punishment and pain, and there would be happiness, too. That was writing.”
― Markus Zusak

“All they ever did was effectuate a belief that killing was justifiable as long as it was done in the name of good.”
― Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day

“The most indelible, eternal, irreparable, and unforgiving thing is turning you back on love.”
― Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day

“The snow happily blanketed the buildings, keeping them warm and safe as the Keepers watched from afar. Sabre thought he had deposed of the plague but that glow was meretricious and nothing more.”
― Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day

“You did give light to a city that needed it. Lightning flashes brightest against a dark sky, but it’s only a flash.”
― Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day

“She stood on the edge of tomorrow, a one person vanguard that believed. The city would soon follow her lead”
― Tommy McMahon, Hero of the Day

“Got you. You're mine now. For the rest of the day, week, month, year, life. Have you guessed who I am? Sometimes I think you have. Sometimes when you're standing in a crowd I feel those sultry, dark eyes of yours stop on me. Are you too afraid to come up to me and let me know how you feel? I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings. I want to kill the ugly girls that you're always with. Do you really like those boring, naive, coy, calculating girls or is it just for sex? The seeds of love have taken hold, and if we won't burn together, I'll burn alone.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction

“There is no escape. You can't be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don't try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is- particularly the artist- particularly myself!”
― Hermann Hesse

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
― Theodore Roosevelt