Alice Kalkuhl > Alice's Quotes

“The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver.

Between iron and silver. I think that is appropriate for you.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.”
― Thomas Harris, Hannibal

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

“Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.”
― T.S. Eliot

“The climate of Barrow is Arctic. Temperatures range from cold as shit to fucking freezing.”
― Steve Niles, 30 Days of Night

“Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction”
― George Gordon Byron

“I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.”
― George Gordon Byron

“Perhaps my only real expertise, my only talent, is to endure beyond the endurable.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“I had long ago stopped believing in promises. Biological imperatives, yes. Environmental factors, yes. Promises, no.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

“… the shadows of the abyss are like the petals of a monstrous flower that shall blossom within the skull and expand the mind beyond what any man can bear …”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation