Sam > Sam's Quotes

“And I get up because it is the only thing I can do.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones

“With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.”
― Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian

“My father once nearly came to blows with a female dinner guest about whether a particular patch of embroidery was fuchsia or magenta.

But the infinite gradations of color in a fine sunset - from salmon to canary to midnight blue - left him wordless.”
― Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

“If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

“Well," I said. "If you need me, I'll be outside, playing with sharp objects.”
― Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid

“How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big bathtub.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

“It’s amazing how locking down one key demographic, white people in rich countries, means you can get your claws into the world so tightly, you can tear it all to pieces around you.”
― Andrew Joseph White, Hell Followed With Us

“I think the entire world depends on people pretending they don’t know they’re doing terrible things.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

“it's okay

old is fine

I'm old because I"m not dead”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
― Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

“WHEN TRAVELING THROUGH WASHINGTON, DC, one expects to see a few snakes in human clothing.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero

“One trog whispered, “Who is that?” His companion whispered back, “Don’t know, but he can’t be important. He’s wearing a Mets hat.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tower of Nero