Hemmel M. > Hemmel M.'s Quotes

“In that last dance of chances

I shall partner you no more.

I shall watch another turn you

As you move across the floor.


In that last dance of chances

When I bid your life goodbye

I will hope she treats you kindly.

I will hope you learn to fly.


In that last dance of chances

When I know you'll not be mine

I will let you go with longing

And the hope that you'll be fine.


In that last dance of chances

We shall know each other's minds.

We shall part with our regrets

When the tie no longer binds.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Fate

“Fetch me that flower; the herb I showed thee once. The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid, will make man or woman madly dote upon the next live creature that it sees.
Cooper had frowned at the tv, trying to follow the loopy language.
"So basically he's telling that naked kid to go get him a roofie?"
Park had punched him lightly and readjusted on the couch so that his head was in Cooper's lap facing the TV. "It's not a roofie, it's Cupid's flower. Love-in-idleness."
"A flower that drugs you into thinking you are in love. Uh-huh, right. So are there Athenian police in this forest or what?”
― Charlie Adhara, The Wolf at Bay

“Duncan had never felt more powerfull than when Ghost trusted him enough to fall asleep beside him. And to know that Ghost felt the same way about it? He was so fucked.
Ghost's brow creased. "Do you? Want? I mean. That. With me?"
Damn Ghost for asking. And damn himself for this self-destructive stupidity. "Yes."
"I don't mean sex. I mean -"
"I know what you mean. Yes."
"But you don't want to. You wish you didn't."
"It would be easier not to want you. It would be safer. Probably better for my long-term mental health. But it's kind of moot. I do want you. It's not a choice."
"Then we can. Watch movies."
Duncan sighed. "No. I-" He didn't have the first clue how to say this if Ghost hadn't already figured it out.
"You can't plot to kill someone and then watch a movie with me. It doesn't work that way. I don't work that way.
Ghost considered that for a long time." Fine, I won't kill him. Even if that's the only way out. I won't."
"That's-" Duncan wasn't sure whether to be flattered or appalled. "Are you flirting with me by not murdering people?"
Ghost looked thoughtful. "Do you like it?”
― Sidney Bell, Rough Trade

“The tought that some people might be so ignorant as to think someone can be "turned" gay had just never crossed my mind. Who thinks this crap? Like homosexuality is a contagious disease. And if it was contagious, wouldn't a group of us have left packages of infected plaid shirts and jock straps lying around to turn the guys we wanted?”
― John Goode

“Caleb was being wilfully obtuse.
Caleb hated when people were willfully obtuse. There were enough tragically stupid people in the world without having anyone indulge in recreational stupidity.”
― Cat Sebastian, Peter Cabot Gets Lost

“The obstetrician thought I was a breech but I had my nose in a book.”
― S.E. Harmon, The First and Last Adventure of Kit Sawyer