Eli > Eli's Quotes

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“It was so close to October that Halloween was knocking at his heart.”
― Barry Eysman, Candles For November

“I have a, shall we say, morbid personality.”
― Novala Takemoto, Missin' (Novel)

“There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“... where purl with ravishing music the scented waters that come from the grotto-born river Narg.”
― H. P. Lovecraft

“A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“Quoth the raven nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“I don't want to earn a living, I want to live.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Good and evil exist in all of us.
a moment’s temptation takes us on a wrong path.
On that path may lurk foul fiends,
inhuman, yet feeding, needing
all our weaknesses: vanity, indolence and envy,
Easy fruits for evil appetites,
our flesh, a tasty afterthought,
our bones flung asunder.”
― Emmanuelle de Maupassant, Cautionary Tales: a collection of darkly delicious folktales

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
― Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides