Gabriella Campbell > Gabriella's Quotes

“He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Did you win your sword fight?"
"Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the greatest sword fighter in the world."
"And you wrote the software."
"Yeah. That, too," Hiro says.”
― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

“When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.”
― James Altucher

“Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?”
― Connie Willis, Bellwether

“The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.”
― Clive Barker

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The most effective system of Internet control is not the one that has the most sophisticated and draconian system of censorship, but the one that has no need for censorship whatsoever.”
― Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate The World

“Slow down,’ he said, ‘so I can see how you do it,’ but she’d laughed and said, ‘I can’t slow down, if I stopped to think how I was doing it I couldn’t do it at all.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.”
― Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys

“«Todos mueres» se dijo el demiurgo,« al final todos mueren... Pero qué vidas majestuosas podemos llevar mientras tanto. Qué de maravillas nos da tiempo a contemplar».”
― José Antonio Cotrina, La sombra de la luna

“—No penséis en nosotros como asesinos despiadados —les dijo—. Ni nos toméis por monstruos. Solo somos el mal necesario, el filo de las tinieblas, el aliento del abismo. Nuestra voluntad no nos pertenece, es la del terremoto, la del volcán que entra en erupción, la de la catástrofe inevitable. No somos más responsables de nuestros actos que los diluvios o los relámpagos. Somos la Carroña, y hemos venido a mataros a todos.”
― José Antonio Cotrina, La canción secreta del mundo

“They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of heroic fantasy is identical: it is, round about Chapter Three (or ten minutes into the film) to rush into the room, attack the hero one at a time, and be slaughtered. No one ever asks them if they want to.
This book is dedicated to those fine men.”
― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov