Sean O'Hara > Sean's Quotes

“Hasebe: One of these days, you'll have books falling out your front door. What will you do then, huh?

Lucy: I'll sell my furniture and use the money for more books!”
― Karino Takatsu, Servant x Service, Vol. 3

“Yes. We will live the rest of our lives in hell. It's not so bad: as long as you're prepared for it, you can live anywhere.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Suicidal Mime

“Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with 'Are you stupid?' and the conversation would still make sense.”
― NisiOisiN, Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle

“God has to be a sadist to give people life.”
― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings

“God is a man of such perfect, flawless character that he only watches over everyone equally -- the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor -- and never plays favorites or reaches His hand out to any of them. Oh, what a wonderful God. He can just drop dead.”
― YUKAKO KABEI, Kieli, Volume 1: The Dead Sleep in the Wilderness

“If you were God, what kind of human would you create?" I asked.

"I wouldn't change how they look. But I would make them as dumb as chickens. So dumb they'd never even imagine the existence of a god.”
― Hitomi Kanehara, Snakes And Earrings

“Um, where are we headed now?"

"Heaven. Or maybe Hell. I forget."

"They're totally different."

"Yup, totally different. They're complete opposites. So we're bound to end up at one of them.”
― NisiOisiN, Zaregoto, Book 1: The Kubikiri Cycle

“The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both men were carrying -- or at least aiming -- what could only be categorised as small artillery pieces: two bulky gas-powered spinguns, so heavy that they had to be strapped to their bodies via thick leather girdles. Malkin was aiming at the angels, more or less.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World

“There's a vorg loose," Meroka explained. "In case that escaped your attention. Ricasso's doing his bit for Swarm, trying to kill the thing before it sucks someone's brains out. Now he might be able to find time in his schedule to file that paperwork you need, but I'm guessing it's going to be a stretch, what with a monster on the loose and the ship being in a state of fucking emergency and all." She smiled sweetly. "So, what's it going to be? You going to let them out, or do I have to get, you know, truculent.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World

“My people are impressing on Tulwar's people the wisdom of surrender and a rapid shift of allegiance. I'm counting on most them being opportunist thugs who'll recognize a good thing when it's offered to them.”
― Alastair Reynolds, Terminal World

“If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.”
― Kristin Hersh, Rat Girl

“I don't like ordinary girls. But a girl who would kill a guy to make him hers and then kiss his still-warm lips... a girl like Oscar Wilde's Salome They drive me crazy. Like Kiyohime turning into a snake to chase her man or the grocery girl Oshichi who set fire to a building just to see hers one more time. I want to be loved like that be obsessed over be hated.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

“My chronic hiccups suddenly came back so I had to go the hospital."
"I never heard of you having this condition before”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

“They're going to burn this complete collection of MacDonald's children's book There's a new translation out in paperback but I've always dreamed of eating the entire twelve-volume set in hardcover I refuse to watch something so delicious get turned to charcoal right in front of me”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

“Noooo They can't burn up Books aren't any good when they're well done You can't cook them that long”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Famished Spirit

“So why did you say we should break up, Kazushi? Because I stabbed Igarashi?”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Captive Fool (light novel)

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Captive Fool (light novel)

“Are you telling me we're fling into Jupiter?"

"No, we'll probably crash into Io first," Shirosaki said.

"The thought of diving head first into a sea of magma doesn't exactly turn me on.”
― sayuri Ueda, The Cage of Zeus

“When I can't sleep, I always wrap something around my neck and close my eyes and imagine myself being strangled to death. Then I can fall asleep--it feels like sinking deep underwater”
― Otsuichi

“Right, let's go rope shopping. You should buy some rope or cord yourself; it might come in handy. You might need it when you kill yourself.”
― Otsuichi

“This is your grave."

"Grave? You've got to be kidding. I'm still alive."

"Burying dead people isn't as much fun," Saeki said, feeling this was extremely obvious.”
― Otsuichi

“Hee-hee-hee. I'm fine, reeeeally. Wanting to die is starting to be a habit for me. Don't worry about it, okay? Next week there's a sale I've been looking forward to, and I promised some friends that I'd go see a movie with them, and I haven't even used my half-price ticket for griddled monja cakes yet, so I can't die.”
― Mizuki Nomura

“I said, Saturday is the first day of my National Center Test."

"That's tomorrow, though!" My eyes bugged out.

"Yes, ever since antiquity, the day after Friday has been Saturday.”
― Mizuki Nomura, Book Girl and the Wayfarer's Lamentation (light novel)

“It is almost impossible to get a novel printed in an English journal unless it is warranted to contain nothing at all to which anybody, however narrow, could possibly object, on any ground whatever, religious, political, social, moral or aesthetic. The romance that appeals to your average editor must say or hint at nothing at all which is not universally believed and received by everybody, everywhere in this realm of Britain.”
― Grant Allen, The British Barbarians

“In fact, in this modern England of ours, this fatherland of snobdom, one passes one's life in a see-saw of doubt, between the Scylla and Charybdis of those two antithetical social dangers: You are always afraid you may get to know somebody you yourself do not want to know, or may try to know somebody who does not want to know you.”
― Grant Allen, The British Barbarians

“I beg your pardon," Philip interposed stiffly, now put upon his mettle. "We have no taboos at all in England. ... England, you must remember, is a civilized country, and taboos are institutions that belong the lowest and most degraded savages.”
― Grant Allen, The British Barbarians

“Philip owned a looking-glass, and was therefore accustomed to a very high standard of manly beauty.”
― Grant Allen, The British Barbarians

“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he himself is boiling with indignation. He feels its superiority an affront to his barbarianism.”
― Grant Allen, The British Barbarians

“Professional considerations made the Dean refrain from endorsing this open expression of murderous sentiment in its fullest form; a clergyman ought always to keep up some decent semblance of respect for the Gospel and the Ten Commandments -- or, at least, the greater part of them.”
― Grant Allen, The British Barbarians

“A bullet would perhaps be an unnecessarily severe form of punishment to mete out; but I confess I could excuse the man who was so far carried away by his righteous indignation as to duck the fellow in the nearest horse-pond.”
― Grant Allen, The British Barbarians