Lynxie > Lynxie's Quotes

“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.”
― Roger Ebert

“You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my “warped” label with pride.”
― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

“Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.”
― Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

“I stared at my broccoli with all kinds of menace.”
― Juliann Whicker, Hotblood

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“My father used to say some families are made by shared blood and some families are made by spilled blood”
― Lindsay Buroker, Dark Currents

“Just so I'm clear...you thought a brothel would be a suitable place to host a birthday party for a woman?”
― Lindsay Buroker, Dark Currents

“Sicarius wore his usual guess-my-thoughts-if-you-can-mask, though she sensed he did not approve.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Deadly Games

“Why, Sicarius, is it possible you have a playful side beneath your razor-edged knives, severe black clothing and humourless glares?”
― Lindsay Buroker, Deadly Games

“Sicarius had the personality of a particularly bland, pointy stick.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Deadly Games

“Sicarius, as usual, regarded her with the blandness of a particularly featureless rock, then walked away.”
― Lindsay Buroker, Deadly Games

“Everyone knew artists were all a little crazy”
― Kim Fielding, Stasis

“Sleep. We can adore one another in the morning”
― Kim Fielding, Flux

“Soon enough, Miner stopped caring who was watching - for a brief time, he and Ennek were a universe of two.”
― Kim Fielding, Flux

“Ennek realised what an enormous mistake it had been to buy the thing. Miner was stunning. The sweater was high enough on his neck to almost hide the iron collar. He reminded Ennek of ocean waves, white foam over sea green, but Miner was warm and soft, with a shy little smile and a slight blush on his cheeks. Ennek wanted to drown in him.”
― Kim Fielding, Stasis

“It was time to let my freak flag fly.”
― Derrolyn Anderson, Between the Land and the Sea

“Maia did not want to wake up. Sleep lay on her like a dead bear and she had no strength to struggle out from under it.”
― Kim McDougall, Caul, Shroud and Veil

“If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept”
― Thomas Wilson

“Our meeting was inevitable. Our love was terminal. But God and Goddess damn it, our daughter was no mistake at all.”
― Edward Morris, Blood of Eden

“The forecast was cloudy with extended periods of consciousness, followed by a stitch in my side and a sense of impending doom swelling to a symphony of demolition”
― Edward Morris, Blood of Eden

“The elflocks of the crowd were every color of the rainbow, as was the light from their eyes that shone through the mask of the Arkadian winter night. Some of them had wings, but not gauzy gossamer tattooist fabulosities. The wing'd ones among them bore twin sails at their backs, reptilian bat bones folded and hooded just above their heads in taloned, Gothic arches of epidermis.”
― Edward Morris, Blood of Eden

“For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws.”
― Edward Morris, Blood of Eden

“Write. Start writing today. Start writing right now. Don’t write it right, just write it –and then make it right later. Give yourself the mental freedom to enjoy the process, because the process of writing is a long one. Be wary of “writing rules” and advice. Do it your way.”
― Tara Moss

“Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.”
― Bernard Beckett, Genesis

“Parker fixated on the envelope's precise penmanship as she lifted it. Her grandmother rarely took the time to write her own name in the return address, let alone give it the aesthetic attention that this one so seemed to demand. Once, when Parker questioned her on this, her grandmother casually asserted that she "didn't quite believe in envelopes" as if this were a debatable concept like Socialism or wearing white after Labor Day.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Fact is just fiction with different storytellers”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“The smell of burning firewood and the molding of organic, earthy substances reminded her of jumping wildly into the enormous leaf piles of autumns past and she suddenly wished that it was appropriate for someone her age to do such a thing.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“Parker, I'm old," She said matter-of-factly. "I get away with these things." She continued to wave and smile wildly. "People treat me like an idiot so I'm allowed to act like one from time to time. It's one of the perks.”
― Abby Slovin, Letters In Cardboard Boxes

“I am definitely not a fucking toaster.”
― Jim Chaseley, Z14

“I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!”
― Karen A. Wyle, Twin-Bred