Rhiannon Boyle > Rhiannon's Quotes

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
― André Breton, What Is Surrealism?: Selected Writings

“Tem cheiro de poeira e de tempo”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl

“I need a world filled with wonder, with awe, with awful things. I couldn't exist in a world devoid of marvels, even if the marvels are terrible marvels. Even if they frighten me to consider them.”
― Caitlin R. Kiernan

“All knowledge is worth having.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart

“I want to ride a camel to the club and valet that shit.”
― Samantha Irby, Meaty

“Why do you hate Indians? You know white people are are much worse, don't you? It isn't as though there's some kind of international bar you're not reaching out here. We're terrible at everything. Lasting much past forty-five. Learning more than one language. It's a miracle, actually; sickly prematurely aging worryingly inbred horsey idiots have managed to convince everyone else their way is best by no other means than firmness of manner and the tactical distribution of flags. I can't believe no one's called our bluff yet.”
― Natasha Pulley, The Bedlam Stacks

“The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green.”
― Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls

“Orpheus’ mistake wasn’t that he turned and looked back towards Eurydice and Hell, but that he ever thought he could escape. Same with Lot’s wife. Averting our eyes does not change the fact that we are marked.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Very Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan

“The best foreshadowing never seems like foreshadowing.”
― Caitlín R. Kiernan, Agents of Dreamland

“There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there from year after year of terrifying dreams. They had swum through the almost solid ground.

She had said, What is that awful stench?

Shame and secrecy, Bird-one, shame and secrecy, he had answered.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“Shall I revise or rewrite
My October Symphony?
...and change the dedication
from Revolution to Revelation?
– Pet Shop Boys”
― Neil Tennant

“Hey, don't be mean, 'cause remember: wherever you go. . . there you are.”
― Earl Mac Rauch, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension

“leaned forward. “The Navidsonians?” “House of Leaves reference?” Chloe asked.”
― Terry Miles, Rabbits

“I want the future we were promised, not the future we deserve.”
― Terry Miles, Rabbits

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“I tried to be anxious, but the earth and the grass and the evening breeze surrounded me, as if I had been set into a socket of the world for which I’d been designed.”
― Kathleen Jennings, Flyaway

“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“So there we were. A rejected crow with an identity crisis partnering a bloodhound with the IQ of boiled pudding. We were perhaps the most pathetic excuse for an attempted murder on the face of the earth.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Sometimes I have the thought that a lot of species are hardwired to refuse to listen to warnings. And that's how they end up extinct.”
― Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom

“Do I have to smash a glass over the head of every single man I come into contact with, just so I leave a fucking mark?”
― Eliza Clark, Boy Parts

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night

“…memory isn’t a permanent thing, like you’re taking it out of a box and looking at it and putting it back just like you found it. Every time we remember something, it’s like we’re putting it back together again. Sometimes we add things.”
― Christopher Hawkins, I Contain Multitudes

“You keep asking why your work is not enough, and I don’t know how to answer that, because it is enough to exist in the world and marvel at it. You don’t need to justify that, or earn it. You are allowed to just live.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built