Jonathan Ashleigh > Jonathan's Quotes

“Someone once told me people write down stories because they would like to forget, and those who read are those who would like to remember. Maybe I’m not ready to forget, and maybe you’re not ready to remember. This is what I recall; I’m sorry if it is a little spotty. I suppose it is what I have the strength to forget…”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

“However confused I become, I will always hold close the notion that I could find freedom. I could leave this prison if I liked, if I wanted to … or if I didn’t see any other way. And if I did, I would not give you the satisfaction of burying me under a priest.”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

“This is another one of those creatures whom, like the pelican, I have fed with the blood of my own heart... There were special circumstances close at hand, urgent, troubling me, and they resulted in the state of mind that produced Werther. I had lived, loved, and suffered much... That's what it was.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I just want a soft creature with shiny eyes to lay with in the dark, the glint of her eyes reflected back at mine, a last few whispers, a kiss goodnight, to calm me down but most of all … to make me feel alive when morning shines.”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

“I can feel it in the rotten air tonight/ In the tips of my fingers, in the skin on my face/ In the weak last gasp of the evening's dying light/ In the way those eyes I've always loved illuminate this place/ Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell/ Like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell/ I will walk down to the end with you/ If you will come all the way down with me”
― John Darnielle

“Read this book ... but understand it’s fiction. And let life be ... your most important addiction.”
― John Zelazny, The Sorrows of Young Mike

“Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“The clearest relationships were distorted, the most obvious were forgotten, the trivial and unimportant pushed into the foreground. It must be written again, right from the beginning…”
― Hermann Hesse

“Most of the time, I wasn't interested in inflicting pain on myself and others unless it was in a way that would make people think about the way they act, the society they live in or the things they take for granted.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“To be in Society is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.”
― Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance