Devina > Devina's Quotes

“Either I'm funny or the world's funny. I don't know which. The bottle and lid don't fit. It could be the bottle's fault or the lid's fault. In either case, there's no denying that the fit is bad.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”
― Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“Sleep is good, he said, and books are better.”
― George R. R. Martin

“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.”
― Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club

“If things continue this way, there will be two societies - or at least I hope there will be two - the one you're helping create, and an alternative to it. You and your ilk will live, willingly, joyfully, under constant surveillance, watching each other always, commenting on each other, voting and liking and disliking each other, smiling and frowning, and otherwise doing nothing much else.”
― Dave Eggers, The Circle

“That’s the problem with history, we like to think it’s a book—that we can turn the page and move the fuck on. But history isn’t the paper it’s printed on. It’s memory, and memory is time, emotions, and song. History is the things that stay with you.”
― Paul Beatty, The Sellout