Lane James > Lane James's Quotes

“Can a body love something so much that her heart aches with the loving?”
― Scott Nicholson, The Red Church

“all a pretty face does is hide the ugly underneath, don’t it?”
― Scott Nicholson, The Red Church

“Well, who’s real? The living or the dead?”
― Scott Nicholson, Drummer Boy

“Time passes and human greed outlasts even the eternal.”
― Scott Nicholson, Drummer Boy

“Glory and honor were found as much in defeat as in victory.”
― Scott Nicholson, Drummer Boy

“Glory and honor were found as much in defeat as in victory. Maybe more so, when the war was senseless and never-ending.”
― Scott Nicholson, Drummer Boy

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“He stood for a moment, letting the music wash over him, his right arm moving in concert with the bass. The music filled him, made him complete, and whole.”
― J.T. Ellison, The Cold Room

“But her voice?  If I'd thought she could sing in the park, I hadn't heard her even trying!  She was enchanting, haunting, beautiful.  She raised goose bumps all over my body and I sat transfixed,”
― Angela Peach, Playing My Love

“Sometimes it's easier to block out our feelings toward someone because the alternative is to feel the pain.”
― Angela Peach, Playing My Love

“How can it be possible to be in love with two people equally?  I mean, whoever I choose, I think I'd always be thinking about the other one and knowing how much they'd be hurting.”
― Angela Peach, Playing My Love

“If you only knew the beauty which awaits you, Daniel. If you only knew how lovely are the realms which lie beyond this house. Would you keep yourself locked in a barren cell when all the beauties of the universe await you on the outside?”
― Richard Matheson, Hell House

“You want a vivid description of what’s going through my brain as I’m cutting through a liver and all these larvae are spilling out all over me and juice pops out of the intestines?” I kind of did, but I kept quiet. He went on: “I don’t really focus on that. I try to focus on the value of the work. It takes the edge off the grotesqueness.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“There is a passage in the Buddhist Sutra on Mindfulness called the Nine Cemetery Contemplations. Apprentice monks are instructed to meditate on a series of decomposing bodies in the charnel ground, starting with a body “swollen and blue and festering,” progressing to one “being eaten by…different kinds of worms,” and moving on to a skeleton, “without flesh and blood, held together by the tendons.” The monks were told to keep meditating until they were calm and a smile appeared on their faces.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“To quantify the “benefit” side of the equation, a dollar amount is assigned to each saved human life. As calculated by the Urban Institute in 1991, you are worth $2.7 million.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“We are all nature, all made of the same basic materials, with the same basic needs. We are no different, on a very basic level, from the ducks and the mussels and last week’s coleslaw. Thus we should respect Nature, and when we die, we should give ourselves back to the earth.”
― Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“Humanity will be the death of me but without it, I’d feel lost anyway so what does it matter?”
― Matt Shaw, Sick Bastards

“The man was visibly quaking. And he should be. He knew he was in the wrong. He knew they were all in the wrong. What they were doing was criminal but they got away with it because they hid behind government badges.”
― Matt Shaw, Sick Bastards

“She couldn’t keep doing this, but she didn’t know how to make it stop.”
― J.T. Ellison, The Immortals

“You can always judge a man by how he treats his dog,”
― J.T. Ellison, The Immortals

“In the midst of life, we are in death.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“Funny - the things we’ve done, the things we’ve seen since being in this house… Yet when it comes to an animal being harmed - that’s what sickens us.”
― Matt Shaw, sickER B*stards

“I knew the truth - that the world was being run by sick bastards who’d happily conduct experiments on innocent people just because they have too much time on their hands and a dark curiosity to feed.”
― Matt Shaw, sickER B*stards

“Handwriting is as unique as fingerprints and teeth. We’re guided by three basic principles: physical, mental and emotional, and all three of these are readily apparent in our handwriting.”
― J.T. Ellison, So Close the Hand of Death

“Maniac D. Charles Manson had that, if I remember correctly. It’s when the stem of the lower case d leans really far to the right, correct?”
― J.T. Ellison, So Close the Hand of Death

“The silence stretched between them like an ocean of difference keeping them apart.”
― Caroline Gebbie, Tears

“How many times had I imagined kissing her this way? A thousand nights of pent up desire were released in that kiss, and I knew right then that I would never have enough.”
― Eve Ferris, Reunion

“Her scent and taste went straight to my head like a fine wine, and I was instantly drunk with her.”
― Eve Ferris, Reunion