Dee Aditya > Dee's Quotes

“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus

“Think of the actual physical elements that compose our bodies: we are 98 percent hydrogen and oxygen and carbon.

That's table sugar.

You are made of the same stuff as table sugar.

Just a couple of tiny differences here and there and look what happened to the sugar: it can stand upright and send tweets.”
― Augusten Burroughs, This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“Hell (and Goodreads) hath no fury like a HEA reader scorned.”
― Todd Rainbow Warrior

“Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.”
― J.R. Ward, Dark Lover

“Violence only begets violence when we allow it to. We always have a choice.”
― P.T. Denys, Violence Begets ...

“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“See, I’m a big guy. I’m just about 6’8 in my boots. A slab of muscle on a frame that’s almost comically large....
“So, are you completely proportionate?”
It takes me a second, maybe two, before I realize that he’s asking whether I’m packing a peashooter or a rocket launcher in my shorts.”
― Bey Deckard, Sarge

“But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.”
― Lori Moore

“You can tell sometimes when someone wants to say something. An air wave goes bendy and that pause gets bigger and bigger.”
― Al Stewart, The Invasion of Tork

“And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.”
― Cherie Priest, Dreadnought

“There's a reason straight men call us 'cocksuckers'. I've just never understood why it's considered an insult.”
― B. Snow, Bedtime Stories

“No. I'm done with it. Dating...is apparently not for me."
"So, what, you're just going to do hookups?"
"No, I can't do that. The whole 'emotional connection' thing. God, I'm a girl."
"You're definitely not a girl. You're a nice guy whose dick is just tightly connected to his heartstrings. Nothing wrong with that. I'm actually kind of envious.”
― B. Snow, Bedtime Stories

“You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.”
― Annie Proulx

“I’m a perpetrator!”
― Noah Homes, A Case of Time

“I gave you all my secrets, and you lost them all. You lost a lot of things.

But the treasure of it was in the giving, not the keeping.”
― Julio-Alexi Genao, When You Were Pixels

“I'm pretty sure between us we're not even a packed lunch.”
― Debbie McGowan, Beaten Track

“So. Monday. We meet again.

We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.”
― Julio-Alexi Genao

“He journeyed, in this climax, from the boy who was afraid to need, to the man who trusted he could.”
― Amy Lane

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“The rain forest has its own defenses. The earth’s immune system, so to speak, has recognized the presence of the human species and is starting to kick in. The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by the human parasite. Perhaps AIDS is the first step in a natural process of clearance.”
― Richard Preston, The Hot Zone

“In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of the concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan and the United States, thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinctions. Perhaps the biosphere does not 'like' the idea of five billion humans.”
― Richard Preston, the Hot Zone