“She knew what it felt like to tremble like that before touching someone -- desire so acute that it became despair.”
― Ironside
― Ironside
“I love you' is what people say when they have run out of words and can't say anything else. It is like reaching out a hand in desperation.”
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“We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“You didn't kill him. He would have killed you, but you didn't kill him."
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
"So? He was stupid. If I killed everyone who was stupid, I wouldn't have time to sleep.”
― In the Hand of the Goddess
“When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field, and after that there are certain crops that will no longer grow in him, while other, stranger, more fantastic growths may occasionally be produced."
[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
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[Books vs. Goons, L.A. Times, April 24, 2005]”
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