K > K's Quotes

“Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!”
― C. J. Cherryh

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?”
― Kathy Reichs, Virals

“Baravetto was unconscious when we found him," Hi said. "What'd you do to the guy?"

"Kicked him in the balls, then brained him with a rolling pin. Twice.”
― Kathy Reichs, Virals

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Let me go!" She tore off a mirror and brandished it in his face. "I mean it! I don't want to go to your godforsaken hellbarn, you retarded psycho farmer!”
― Gina Damico, Croak

“What about me? I'll be okay in here. The Afterlife may be second-best cheesecake, but it's still cheesecake.”
― Gina Damico, Scorch

“You lied to me!"
"You're going to have to be more specific. What did I lie to you about this time?”
― Gina Damico, Scorch

“And I got myself a camel," Cordy finished with a smile.
Lex stared at her. "Why?"
"Duh, Lex, because I can .”
― Gina Damico, Scorch

“Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day

“I sense that the chocolate chips have hit the fan.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day

“Skylar todl you to come here?" I asked dumbly.

"No," Bethany said. "Skylar told me not to come here. Same dif.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day

“But Hazael only said, "I brought you a present."
Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.
"Hmm," said Hazael. "Not the usual response."
"Oh, do you give flowers often?"
"Yes," he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. "I hope it wasn't poisonous," he said lightly.
Liraz just shrugged. "There are worse ways to die.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“HELLO. Hello hello hello hello hello hello.

Hello?

Damn, now I've gone and done it. I've made hello go all abstract and weird. It looks like an alien rune now, something an astronaut would find engraved on a moon rock and go, A strange moon word! I must bring this back to Earth as a gift for my deaf son! And which would then--of course--hatch flying space piranhas and wipe out humanity in less than three days, SOMEHOW sparing the astronaut just so he could be in the final shot, weeping on his knees in the ruins of civilization and crying out to the heavens, It was just helloooooooo!

Oh. Huh. It's totally back to normal now. No more alien doom. Astronaut, I just kept you from destroying Earth,

YOU'RE WELCOME.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what’s it called? Crying?
Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won’t punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Please tell me you have to pee."
"What? No. No, I do not. Don't even ask."
"Oh, come on. I'd do it myself if I could, but I can't. I'm a girl."
"I know. Life is unfair. I'm still not going to pee on Karou's ex-boyfriend for you."
"What? I wasn't even going to ask you to." In her most reasonable tone, Zuzana explained, "I just want you to pee in a balloon so I can drop it on him."
"Oh." Mik pretended to consider this for approximately one and a half second. "No.”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It's always our self we find in the sea.”
― e.e. cummings, 100 Selected Poems

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.”
― Sara Henderson

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

“Where there is a woman there is magic.”
― Ntozake Shange

“Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.”
― Nora Roberts, Vision in White

“There are no happy endings.
Endings are the saddest part,
So just give me a happy middle
And a very happy start.”
― Shel Silverstein, Every Thing on It

“It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
― Jo Walton, Among Others

“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

“Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.”
― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

“A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.”
― Lorrie Moore

“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas