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BOOK STARTERS VOL.45 ANTHEM AYN RAND
- ❛ My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. ❜
- ❛ What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? ❜
- ❛ What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? ❜
- ❛ What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? ❜
- ❛ What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey? ❜
- ❛ I am done with this creed of corruption. ❜
- ❛ Now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. ❜
- ❛ I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. ❜
- ❛ I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. ❜
- ❛ I am. I think. I will. ❜
- ❛ The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them. ❜
- ❛ I do not grant my love without reason. ❜
- ❛ I honour men with my love. But honour is a thing to be earned. ❜
- ❛ Centuries of chains and lashes will not kill the spirit of man nor the sense of truth within him. ❜
- ❛ Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak. ❜
- ❛ I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. ❜
- ❛ But what is freedom? Freedom from what? ❜
- ❛ The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. ❜
- ❛ We must know that we may know. ❜
- ❛ It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. ❜
- ❛ If danger threatens you, I shall face it also. If it be death, I shall die with you. ❜
- ❛ I have followed you and I shall follow you wherever you go. ❜
- ❛ Do as you please with me, but do not send me away from you. ❜
- ❛ It is a sin to say this. ❜
- ❛ I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them. ❜
- ❛ My dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. ❜
- ❛ You are damned, and I wish to share your damnation. ❜
- ❛ There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. ❜
- ❛ For the first time this day, I remembered that I am the damned. I remembered it, and I laughed. ❜
- ❛ May we be forgiven! ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.44 DUBLINERS JAMES JOYCE
- ❛ Yet your name is like a summons to all my foolish blood. ❜
- ❛ Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. ❜
- ❛ You live a short distance from your body. ❜
- ❛ Too excited to be genuinely happy. ❜
- ❛ I want real adventures to happen to myself. ❜
- ❛ Gazing up into the darkness I see myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burn with anguish and anger. ❜
- ❛ In your eyes I will ascent to an angelical stature. ❜
- ❛ We cannot give ourselves: we are our own. ❜
- ❛ No one would think he’d make such a beautiful corpse. ❜
- ❛ Every bond, is a bond to sorrow. ❜
- ❛ There is no doubt about it: if you want to succeed you have to go away. ❜
- ❛ It fills me with fear, and yet I long to be nearer to it. ❜
- ❛ I wish you and yours every joy in life, and tons of money, and may you never die till I shoot you. ❜
- ❛ There’s no friends like the old friends. ❜
- ❛ I feel that I have been outcast from life’s feast. ❜
- ❛ Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name? ❜
- ❛ I remember well your eyes, the touch of your hand and my delirium. ❜
- ❛ My life will be lonely too until I, too, die, cease to exist, become a memory - if anyone remembers me. ❜
- ❛ Drew the blankets over my head and tried to think of Christmas. ❜
- ❛ In my heart I always despised him a little. ❜
- ❛ All the seas of the world tumble about my heart. You are drawing me into them: you will drown me. ❜
- ❛ Then I remembered what I had been waiting for. ❜
- ❛ Every place is immoral. ❜
- ❛ If it’s not your business it’s my business and I mean to see to it. ❜
- ❛ I won’t be fooled. ❜
- ❛ I could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. I listened again: perfectly silent. ❜
- ❛ After three weeks she found a wife’s life irksome and, later on, when she was beginning to find it unbearable, she had become a mother. ❜
- ❛ There was a heavy odour in the room – the flowers. ❜
- ❛ Real adventures do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad. ❜
- ❛ My body is like a harp and your words and gestures are like fingers running upon the wires. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.1 KILL BILL VOL. 1 QUENTIN TARANTINO
- ❛ Revenge is never a straight line. It’s a forest, And like a forest it’s easy to lose your way —To get lost. To forget where you came in. ❜
- ❛ Do you find me sadistic? ❜
- ❛ I encourage you from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. ❜
- ❛ If on my journey, I should encounter God, God will be cut. ❜
- ❛ It was not my intention to do this in front of you. ❜
- ❛ So I suppose it’s a little late for an apology? ❜
- ❛ I need to know if you’re going to start any more shit. ❜
- ❛ It’s mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality. ❜
- ❛ When do you want to die? Tomorrow? The day after tomorrow? ❜
- ❛ I have vermin to kill. ❜
- ❛ Will you keep your voice down? ❜
- ❛ When fortune smiles on something as violent and ugly as revenge, it seems proof like no other, that not only does god exist, you’re doing his will. ❜
- ❛ I am going to ask you questions. And every time you don’t give me answers, I’m going to cut something off. ❜
- ❛ Dying in our sleep is a luxury our kind is rarely afforded. My gift to you. ❜
- ❛ This is definitely the work of professionals — a sure and steady hand did this. ❜
- ❛ You and I have unfinished business. ❜
- ❛ Shut up! Do you know what would happen if they heard you? ❜
- ❛ You call that begging? You can beg better than that. ❜
- ❛ Take a good look at my face. Look at my eyes. Do I look familiar? ❜
- ❛ I know I don’t deserve your mercy or your forgiveness. ❜
- ❛ Have you gone mad? I will not tolerate this! ❜
- ❛ And what exactly are we celebrating? ❜
- ❛ All I can tell you is that I’m a different person now. ❜
- ❛ What is the meaning of this outburst? ❜
- ❛ Please — Please forgive my betrayal. ❜
- ❛ This is the work of a salty dog. You can tell by the cleanliness of the carnage. ❜
- ❛ I might never have liked you. Point of fact, I despise you. But that doesn’t suggest I don’t respect you. ❜
- ❛ Burn in hell! I’ll tell you nothing! ❜
- ❛ You didn’t think it was gonna be that easy, did you? ❜
- ❛ The price you pay for bringing this up is… I collect your fucking head. ❜
QUOTE STARTERS VOL.V MARGARET ATWOOD
- ❛ I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary. ❜
- ❛ Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them. ❜
- ❛ In the end, we’ll all become stories. ❜
- ❛ I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead. ❜
- ❛ If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you’d be doomed. You’d be ruined as God. ❜
- ❛ If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. ❜
- ❛ Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. ❜
- ❛ Time in dreams is frozen. You can never get away from where you’ve been. ❜
- ❛ Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? ❜
- ❛ We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. ❜
- ❛ If I love you, is that a fact or a weapon? ❜
- ❛ You fit into me like a hook into an eye. ❜
- ❛ Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened. ❜
- ❛ Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. ❜
- ❛ Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. ❜
- ❛ This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons. ❜
- ❛ Get rid of death. Make it be spring. ❜
- ❛ You are innocent as a bathtub full of bullets. ❜
- ❛ I am the space you desecrate as you pass through. ❜
- ❛ Favour me and give me riches, destroy my enemies. Save me from death. ❜
- ❛ She is a raw voice loose in the rooms beneath me. ❜
- ❛ Isn’t the moon warm enough for you, why do you need the blanket of another body? ❜
- ❛ This is a torch song. Touch me and you’ll burn. ❜
- ❛ If you look long enough eventually you will see me. ❜
- ❛ I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head. ❜
- ❛ I would like to give you the silver branch, the small white flower, the one word that will protect you from the grief. ❜
- ❛ But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling. ❜
- ❛ How else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin? ❜
- ❛ What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question. ❜
- ❛ Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything. ❜
QUOTE STARTERS VOL.I EDGAR ALLAN POE
- ❛ We loved with a love that was more than love. ❜
- ❛ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ❜
- ❛ The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins? ❜
- ❛ There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. ❜
- ❛ Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ❜
- ❛ Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear. ❜
- ❛ And all I loved, I loved alone. ❜
- ❛ Years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute. ❜
- ❛ The best things in life make you sweaty. ❜
- ❛ There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. ❜
- ❛ Anything is better than this agony. ❜
- ❛ You fancy me mad. ❜
- ❛ I hear all things in the heaven and in the earth. ❜
- ❛ Who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? ❜
- ❛ Leave my loneliness unbroken! ❜
- ❛ A more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrills every fibre of my frame. ❜
- ❛ The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. ❜
- ❛ Let my heart be still a moment. ❜
- ❛ You call it hope — It is but agony of desire. ❜
- ❛ Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or silly action for no other reason than because he knows he should not? ❜
- ❛ To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! ❜
- ❛ The beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. ❜
- ❛ Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive. ❜
- ❛ I have been happy, though in a dream. ❜
- ❛ Nevermore. ❜
- ❛ The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life. ❜
- ❛ I am convinced that every thing is going wrong. ❜
- ❛ The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. ❜
- ❛ And if I died, at least I will have died for you! ❜
- ❛ It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.6 THE BURIAL AT THEBES SEAMUS HEANEY PT.1
- ❛ Hurt and humiliation — But this, I can not take. ❜
- ❛ The walls in there have ears. ❜
- ❛ This is for your ears only. ❜
- ❛ What is it? You have me scared. ❜
- ❛ Whoever isn’t for us, is against us. ❜
- ❛ You are just a body; to be dumped, disposed of like a carcass, left out for the birds to feed on. ❜
- ❛ The dead will have to forgive me. ❜
- ❛ From now on and no matter how your mind may I change, I will not accept your help. ❜
- ❛ If death comes, so be it. There will be glory in it. ❜
- ❛ Live, then; and live with your choice. ❜
- ❛ I am doing what has to be done. ❜
- ❛ Nothing is going to stop the ones that love you from keeping on loving you. ❜
- ❛ Worst is the man who has all the good advice, and then because his nerve fails, fails to act in accordance with it, as a leader should. ❜
- ❛ Only a loony would walk himself into this. ❜
- ❛ Why do you need such fences and defences? ❜
- ❛ Enough. Do not anger me. ❜
- ❛ The gods, you think, will side with the likes of him? ❜
- ❛ Watch it. You are over stepping. ❜
- ❛ I warn you. You should keep a civil tongue. ❜
- ❛ There is no such thing as an oath the can not be broken. ❜
- ❛ Every now and then, the things you’d hardly let yourself imagine, actually happen. ❜
- ❛ And you stand over this? This is the truth? ❜
- ❛ The bigger the resistance, the bigger the collapse. ❜
- ❛ Iron that’s forged the hardest, snaps the quickest. ❜
- ❛ Even the wildest horses come to heel when they are reined & bitted right. ❜
- ❛ That’s how guilt affects some people. They break and everything comes out. ❜
- ❛ Will it be enough for you? To see me executed? ❜
- ❛ So you know something no one else knows? ❜
- ❛ They know it too. They are just too afraid to say it. ❜
- ❛ If you die, how will I keep on living? ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.43 THE WAVES VIRGINIA WOOLF
- ❛ There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me’. ❜
- ❛ How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. ❜
- ❛ Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body. ❜
- ❛ I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me. ❜
- ❛ For this moment, this one moment, we are together. ❜
- ❛ Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. ❜
- ❛ I am as neat as a cat in my habits. ❜
- ❛ Everything falls in a tremendous shower, dissolving me. ❜
- ❛ I am the foam that sweeps and fills the uttermost rims of the rocks with whiteness; I am also a girl, here in this room. ❜
- ❛ We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe
that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red when we lie
asleep. ❜ - ❛ These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom. ❜
- ❛ Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing. ❜
- ❛ The moment is all; the moment is enough. ❜
- ❛ I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given. ❜
- ❛ I am not one and simple, but complex and many. ❜
- ❛ And if you are dead, I shall weep. ❜
- ❛ But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful. ❜
- ❛ But our hatred is almost indistinguishable from our love. ❜
- ❛ I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. ❜
- ❛ Life is a dream surely. ❜
- ❛ I think sometimes I am not a woman, but the light that falls on this gate, on this ground. I am the seasons, I think sometimes, January, May, November; the mud, the mist, the dawn. ❜
- ❛ Oh, I am in love with life! ❜
- ❛ I have been knotted; I have been torn apart. ❜
- ❛ There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death. ❜
- ❛ I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am. ❜
- ❛ I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me. ❜
- ❛ I am above the earth now. I am no longer upright, to be knocked against and damaged. ❜
- ❛ I see it all. I feel it all. ❜
- ❛ Death is woven in with the violets. Death and again death. ❜
- ❛ We have been walking for hours it seems. But where? I cannot remember. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.14 BLADE RUNNER HAMPTON FANCHER & DAVID PEOPLES
- ❛ Wake up. Time to die. ❜
- ❛ It’s too bad she won’t live. But then again, who does? ❜
- ❛ I can’t rely on my memories. ❜
- ❛ I want more life. ❜
- ❛ I don’t know how long we’ll have together. Who does? ❜
- ❛ I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. ❜
- ❛ Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? ❜
- ❛ Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren’t you the “good” one? Show me what you’re made of. ❜
- ❛ I’ve done questionable things. – Extraordinary things. ❜
- ❛ Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled round their shores. ❜
- ❛ If only you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes! ❜
- ❛ There’s a part of me in you. ❜
- ❛ The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly. ❜
- ❛ I’m surprised you didn’t come here sooner. ❜
- ❛ Okay, bad joke, I’m sorry… No, really, I made a bad joke. ❜
- ❛ I’d quit because I’d had a belly full of killing. But then I’d rather be a killer than a victim. ❜
- ❛ All I could do is sit there and watch him die. ❜
- ❛ I watched him die all night. It was a long, slow thing… and he fought it all the way. He never whimpered, and he never quit. He took all the time he had, as though he loved life very much. Every second of it… even the pain. Then, he was dead. ❜
- ❛ Talk about beauty and the beast — she’s both. ❜
- ❛ The only way you can hurt me is to kill me. ❜
- ❛ I’m not in the business. I am the business. ❜
- ❛ It’s not an easy thing to meet your maker. ❜
- ❛ We’re stupid, and we’ll die. ❜
- ❛ Death? Well, I’m afraid that’s a little out of my jurisdiction. ❜
- ❛ Gosh, you’ve… really got some nice toys here. ❜
- ❛ Nothing is worse than having an itch you can never scratch. ❜
- ❛ I’ve had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being
so charming. ❜ - ❛ Shakes? Me too. I get them bad. It’s part of the business. ❜
- ❛ Milk and cookies kept you awake? ❜
- ❛ You’d better get it up, or I’m gonna have to kill you! ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.13 THE FOUNTAIN DARREN ARONOFSKY
- ❛ All these years, all these memories, there was you. You pulled me through time. ❜
- ❛ These times are dark, but every shadow, no matter how deep, is threatened by morning light. ❜
- ❛ There’s no hope for us here. There is only death. ❜
- ❛ Our bodies are prisons for our souls. Our skin and blood, the iron bars of confinement. But fear not. All flesh decays. Death turns all to ash. And thus, death frees every soul. ❜
- ❛ What do you want? Leave me, leave me alone! Please, please. ❜
- ❛ Death is a disease, it’s like any other. And there’s a cure. A cure - and I will find it. ❜
- ❛ Will you stay with me tonight? ❜
- ❛ I’m sorry, for you there is only death. But our destiny is life! ❜
- ❛ Together we will live forever. ❜
- ❛ Don’t tell me what I can and can’t do. ❜
- ❛ I don’t know! I’m trying! I don’t know how! ❜
- ❛ Death as an act of creation. ❜
- ❛ Perhaps it is a trap.Then what do we do? ❜
- ❛ What if you could live forever? ❜
- ❛ I’m not afraid anymore. ❜
- ❛ You’ll make it. I won’t let you die. You’re strong enough. ❜
- ❛ It seems we struggle for a lifetime to become whole. Few of us ever do. ❜
- ❛ Most of us end up going out the same way we came in – kicking and screaming. Most of us don’t have the strength – or the conviction. Most of us don’t want to face our fears. ❜
- ❛ If we do nothing, he dies. ❜
- ❛ You’re reckless and you’re losing perspective. ❜
- ❛ I feel different. Every moment. Each one. ❜
- ❛ You won’t believe me. You’ve got to see for yourself. ❜
- ❛ Queen of nothing but her sins. ❜
- ❛ Soon they will be powerless against me. ❜
- ❛ Your queen seeks immortality on Earth - a false paradise. ❜
- ❛ All life must be judged. ❜
- ❛ The shame is too much. I’ve failed. ❜
- ❛ I, for one, am not ready to die yet. Are you? ❜
- ❛ This bravery of yours, it may save us yet. ❜
- ❛ There’s hope. There’s real hope. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.12 APOSTLE GARETH EVANS
- ❛ I fear our Lord no longer hears my prayer. ❜
- ❛ The world thinks you’re dead. And then, till I found you, I thought the same. ❜
- ❛ These people…they’re blasphemers…a disease. ❜
- ❛ Only She decides whether to give or take. We do not intervene. ❜
- ❛ I have promised you a life of riches without the icy sting of suffering, greed, and injustice. And yet here you are…and there you suffer. ❜
- ❛ No one will ever stop me taking care of you. ❜
- ❛ I was of a mind I could put my faith in you. ❜
- ❛ Look her in the eye and lie to me again. ❜
- ❛ She will gift us another pure harvest. Have faith. ❜
- ❛ Do not judge yourself as sinners. Here you’ll be freed. ❜
- ❛ If the knife of that bastard cuts just one of us, we all bleed together. ❜
- ❛ If your blood has been shed in my name, I shed mine for you. ❜
- ❛ A few drops of this should see you through the night. ❜
- ❛ I’ll come by tomorrow to change your bandages. ❜
- ❛ Make good on the debt that you owe and forgiveness shall be yours. ❜
- ❛ The sands of time are sinking! ❜
- ❛ I’ll see to it that no one harms you. I promise. ❜
- ❛ Your eyes…they’ve seen things. Who are you? ❜
- ❛ Take the hunting rifle, get down there and flush him out. ❜
- ❛ I once held fast a belief in the divine. Like you, I knelt before a deity. ❜
- ❛ But then I survived. Only my body, and barely that. ❜
- ❛ Your God is pain, is suffering, is betrayal. ❜
- ❛ Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. ❜
- ❛ Perhaps her strength is fading. Or something has angered her. ❜
- ❛ I’ll be at shore to greet you at sunrise. ❜
- ❛ Faith? We have a god in chains poisoning us from the inside out. ❜
- ❛ You put a god between your enemy and the people. ❜
- ❛ That thing…It will kill you. I won’t stand for it. ❜
- ❛ Ask yourselves who will see us through these dark days? Who will see to it that this land sustains us? Who will drive a spear through the hearts
of those that oppose our god? ❜ - ❛ False prophet, hiding behind a false god! ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.40 DARK PLACES GILLIAN FLYNN
- ❛ I was not a lovable child, and I’ve grown into a deeply unlovable adult. ❜
- ❛ The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it. ❜
- ❛ I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark. ❜
- ❛ I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don’t even ripple. ❜
- ❛ I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way. ❜
- ❛ I can feel a better version of me somewhere in there - hidden behind a liver or attached to a bit of spleen. But the meanness usually wins out. ❜
- ❛ I felt something loosen in me, that shouldn’t have loosened. A stitch come undone. ❜
- ❛ Everyone who keeps a secret, itches to tell it. ❜
- ❛ Coffee goes great with sudden death. ❜
- ❛ I should just listen to my gut and then do the opposite. ❜
- ❛ “Smile, it can’t be that bad!” Yeah, actually, it can, jackwad. ❜
- ❛ Everything bad in the world already did happen. ❜
- ❛ You’re going to find peace? Like knowing is somehow going to fix you? ❜
- ❛ Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. ❜
- ❛ Homesick for a place I’ve never been. ❜
- ❛ Worries find you easily enough without inviting them. ❜
- ❛ It is always consoling to think of suicide. It’s what gets one through many a bad night. ❜
- ❛ Do you understand this is serious? ❜
- ❛ Sometimes it feels good to fuck with something. Instead of always being fucked with. ❜
- ❛ How could you kill something you cared enough to name? ❜
- ❛ Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs. ❜
- ❛ We have the same chemicals in our blood: shame, anger, greed. Unjustified nostalgia. ❜
- ❛ I appreciate a straightforward apology the way a tone-deaf person enjoys a fine piece of music. ❜
- ❛ The phrase fuck you may not rest on the tip of my tongue, but it’s near. Midtongue. ❜
- ❛ Nothing to it but to do it. ❜
- ❛ There are a lot of people who deserve a lesson, deserve to really understand, that nothing comes easy, that most things are going to go sour. ❜
- ❛ If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we’d all have a very Merry Christmas. ❜
- ❛ Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. ❜
- ❛ What does it do to a girl who knows her mother is a murderer? ❜
- ❛ That mean old bitch across the street bit it. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.11 ALICE IN WONDERLAND LINDA WOOLVERTON
- ❛ I know what you’re doing. You think you can blink those pretty little eyes and I’ll melt. ❜
- ❛ It is far better to be feared than loved. ❜
- ❛ Have you gone mad? I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are. ❜
- ❛ What a regrettably large head you have. ❜
- ❛ All this talk of blood and slaying has put me off my tea. ❜
- ❛ You used to be much more…“muchier.” You’ve lost your muchness. ❜
- ❛ This is my life. I’ll decide what to do with it. ❜
- ❛ Be good to her. I’ll be watching very closely. ❜
- ❛ There is no prince. You need to talk to someone about these delusions. ❜
- ❛ I’ve never stopped dreaming. ❜
- ❛ I’m not slaying anything. I don’t slay, so put it out of your mind. ❜
- ❛ You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours. ❜
- ❛ How would you like to have your head hacked off? ❜
- ❛ Do you know what I fear most? ❜
- ❛ You can always paint the roses red. ❜
- ❛ Do you ever wonder what it would be like to fly? ❜
- ❛ I’ll miss you when I wake up. ❜
- ❛ Six impossible things. Count them. ❜
- ❛ I love morning execution, don’t you? ❜
- ❛ Who’s to say what’s proper? What if it were agreed that “proper” meant wearing a codfish on your head? Would you wear it? ❜
- ❛ I’m not the one everyone’s talking about. ❜
- ❛ You were supposed to lead them away. ❜
- ❛ I make the path. ❜
- ❛ And who is this lovely creature? ❜
- ❛ So, my old foe, we meet on the battlefield once again. ❜
- ❛ That’s enough chatter. ❜
- ❛ There are questions I have to answer, things I have to do. ❜
- ❛ You won’t remember me. ❜
- ❛ What an idea. A crazy, mad, wonderful idea. ❜
- ❛ This is impossible only if you believe it is. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.10 SUSPIRIA (2018) DAVID KAJGANICH
- ❛ Why is everyone so ready to think the worst is over? ❜
- ❛ It’s all a mess: The one out there. The one in here. The one that’s coming. ❜
- ❛ Welcome to our little family. Join in as you feel ready, but there’s no rush. ❜
- ❛ And you think they can hear you now? ❜
- ❛ We need guilt and shame. But not yours. ❜
- ❛ The beauty hides the blood. ❜
- ❛ Let mother take care of you. ❜
- ❛ You can’t even be bothered to respect your own lies. ❜
- ❛ It felt like what I think it must feel like to fuck. ❜
- ❛ It’s difficult not to be curious about you. ❜
- ❛ When women tell you the truth, you don’t pity them. You tell them they have delusions. ❜
- ❛ There will be nothing of you left inside. Only space for me. ❜
- ❛ They’ll hollow me out and eat my cunt on a plate. ❜
- ❛ You can give someone your delusion. That’s religion. ❜
- ❛ Why don’t you try speaking to me like you love me? For a change? ❜
- ❛ Darkness binds the gifted. ❜
- ❛ You don’t look better. Or are you this pale all the time? ❜
- ❛ If I asked you for a favour tomorrow would you do it? We might get caught. ❜
- ❛ You will improvise freely. I’m interested in your instincts here. ❜
- ❛ Did you…Did you feel something there? Someone? Or just something. ❜
- ❛ Are you so happy to be stuck to the earth? ❜
- ❛ Delusions are lies that tell the truth. ❜
- ❛ Love and manipulations, they share houses very often. They’re frequent bedfellows. ❜
- ❛ I don’t want to be disrespectful. I don’t. But you’re asking me and I’m telling you. ❜
- ❛ Today we need to break the nose of every beautiful thing. ❜
- ❛ I regret what they did to you. I wasn’t in a position to prevent it. ❜
- ❛ I could explain everything to you. I think it would be wrong, though. ❜
- ❛ There will be nothing of you left inside. ❜
- ❛ There’s something wrong here. Can you not feel it? ❜
- ❛ You have the only mother you need here. Death to any other mother. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.53 THE DIVINE COMEDY DANTE ALIGHIERI
- ❛ All hope abandon, ye who enter here. ❜
- ❛ The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. ❜
- ❛ The love that moves the sun and the other stars. ❜
- ❛ The devil is not as black as he is painted. ❜
- ❛ Through me you pass into the city of woe. Through me you pass into eternal pain. ❜
- ❛ Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ❜
- ❛ There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ❜
- ❛ Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. ❜
- ❛ Without hope we live on in desire. ❜
- ❛ Make my veins and pulses tremble. ❜
- ❛ I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath. ❜
- ❛ I found myself within a forest dark. ❜
- ❛ If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. ❜
- ❛ Here were every fruit and never-ending spring. ❜
- ❛ The well heeded well heard. ❜
- ❛ Through me the way that runs among the lost. ❜
- ❛ A longer ladder still is to be climbed. ❜
- ❛ Why should you care about what’s whispered here? ❜
- ❛ Why have you let your mind get so entwined? ❜
- ❛ I was told about this torture, that it was the hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire. ❜
- ❛ What is it then? Why do you hesitate? ❜
- ❛ Why do you relish living like a coward? ❜
- ❛ A just request is to be met in silence, by the act. ❜
- ❛ There was not, nor will be, from the first day to the last night, an act so glorious and so magnificent. ❜
- ❛ Your name is widely known in hell! ❜
- ❛ Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, why fall ye thus before a little wind? ❜
- ❛ That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute. ❜
- ❛ The shining strengthened me against the fright whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart through all the terrors of that piteous night. ❜
- ❛ It was so dark, and deep, and clouded, that I could see nothing by staring into its depths. ❜
- ❛ Love rules me. It determines what I ask. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.17 JENNIFER’S BODY DIABLO CODY
- ❛ I’m going to eat your soul and shit it out! ❜
- ❛ I need you frightened. I need you hopeless. ❜
- ❛ Hell is a teenage girl. ❜
- ❛ I will finish you if I have to. ❜
- ❛ You know what? You were never really a good friend. ❜
- ❛ You’re killing people? ❜
- ❛ God. It’s like I’m one of the normal girls. ❜
- ❛ I am a god! ❜
- ❛ I had one of my night terrors again. ❜
- ❛ You’re lime-green jello and you can’t even admit it to yourself. ❜
- ❛ Do you buy all your murder weapons at Home Depot? ❜
- ❛ He listens to maggot rock. He wears nail polish. My dick is bigger than his. ❜
- ❛ Oh! A puncture wound. God, that’s so emo. ❜
- ❛ I recommend you shut the fuck up! ❜
- ❛ You goddamn monster, you dumb bitch! ❜
- ❛ She’s just hovering… it’s not that impressive. ❜
- ❛ God, do you have to undermine everything I do? You are such a player hater. ❜
- ❛ Wow, nice comeback, Hannah Montana. Got any more harsh digs? ❜
- ❛ I thought you only murdered boys. ❜
- ❛ I am not insecure. God that’s a joke, how could I ever be insecure? ❜
- ❛ PMS isn’t real, it was invented by the boy-run media to make us seem like we’re crazy. ❜
- ❛ I’m kinda the shit! ❜
- ❛ I mean, they did go all “Benihana” on my ass with that knife, and it should’ve killed me, but for some reason… it didn’t. ❜
- ❛ I am scrumptious! ❜
- ❛ I’ve been through the Occult section of the library five times. ❜
- ❛ It’s a rock show. This is my rock look. ❜
- ❛ You might get lucky for once in your miserable life! ❜
- ❛ I’ll just play hello titty with the bartender. ❜
- ❛ I just got aquamarine on dvd. It’s about a girl who’s, like, half sushi. ❜
- ❛ Moveon.org. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.52 SHARP OBJECTS GILLIAN FLYNN
- ❛ The face you give the world tells the world how to treat you. ❜
- ❛ Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. ❜
- ❛ Women get consumed. ❜
- ❛ Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you’re really doing it to them. ❜
- ❛ A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort. ❜
- ❛ Safer to be feared than loved. ❜
- ❛ I ached once, hard, like a period typed at the end of a sentence. ❜
- ❛ It’s impossible to compete with the dead. I wish I could stop trying. ❜
- ❛ I always feel sad for the girl that I was. ❜
- ❛ Every time people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. ❜
- ❛ How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen. ❜
- ❛ See, there I am. I told you I lived. I told you I was. ❜
- ❛ Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. ❜
- ❛ To refuse has so many more consequences than submitting. ❜
- ❛ I’m here. I don’t usually feel that I am. ❜
- ❛ I’m tired of dying. ❜
- ❛ What if you hurt because it feels so good? ❜
- ❛ How confusing to live in the shadow of a shadow. ❜
- ❛ Do you ever feel like bad things are going to happen, and you can’t stop them? You can’t do anything, you just have to wait? ❜
- ❛ Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own. ❜
- ❛ Everyone has their own version of a memory. ❜
- ❛ Isn’t a smile a girl’s best weapon? ❜
- ❛ My sense of weightlessness, I think, comes from the fact that I know so little about my past. ❜
- ❛ Do what I want; I might like you. ❜
- ❛ I feel sorry for Persephone because even when she’s back with the living, people are afraid of her because of where’s she’s been. ❜
- ❛ She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. ❜
- ❛ The sight of it actually does something to you, makes you less human. ❜
- ❛ It infects you. It ruined me. ❜
- ❛ Your health is not a debt you just cancel. The body collects. ❜
- ❛ Men love to put things inside women, don’t they? ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.50 SMOKE AND MIRRORS NEIL GAIMAN
- ❛ When I was a child, adults would tell me not to make things up, warning me of what would happen if I did. ❜
- ❛ My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: the parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seem to have vanished completely. ❜
- ❛ Would it be worse to love someone who is no longer there, or not to love someone who is? ❜
- ❛ Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in darkness. ❜
- ❛ It is not that I was credulous, simply that I believed in all things dark and dangerous. ❜
- ❛ Sometimes you do things you regret, but there’s nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on. ❜
- ❛ Love will be an impulse that will inspire and ruin in equal measure. ❜
- ❛ He died alone. It don’t matter a rat’s ass whether there was anyone with him or not. He died alone. ❜
- ❛ It was love, I knew, and it tasted like champagne in my mind. ❜
- ❛ The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being averted, by love or foolishness or just plain old dumb luck. ❜
- ❛ She was my dream; and if you touch a dream it vanishes, like a soap bubble. ❜
- ❛ Daylight is always safe. ❜
- ❛ If not for death, they’d be content to simply exist, but with death, well, their lives will have meaning. ❜
- ❛ You want to know the future, love? Then wait. ❜
- ❛ There are things in the darkness beneath us that wish us harm. ❜
- ❛ Fairy tales are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated ❜
- ❛ But sometimes you leave blood on your instruments. ❜
- ❛ I’d like to be a wolf. Not all the time. Just sometimes. In the dark. I would run through the forests. ❜
- ❛ You’ve seen them. They have mouths that twitch, and eyes that stare, and they babble and they mewl and they whimper. ❜
- ❛ They are not mad, or rather, the loss of their sanity is the lesser of their problems. ❜
- ❛ Good a reason for writing as I know: releasing demons, letting them fly. ❜
- ❛ That miserable state in which everything seems flat and of equal importance; when nothing matters, and in which reality seems scraped thin and threadbare. ❜
- ❛ Someone had scrawled graffiti in black marker on the metal: JUST DIE, it said. Like it is easy. ❜
- ❛ Winter started today. The sky turned grey and the snow began to fall and it did not stop falling until well after dark. ❜
- ❛ Memory is the great deceiver. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.49 EMMA JANE AUSTEN
- ❛ Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way. ❜
- ❛ I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ❜
- ❛ If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ❜
- ❛ I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other. ❜
- ❛ But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. ❜
- ❛ I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other would have borne it. ❜
- ❛ There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. ❜
- ❛ One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ❜
- ❛ Better be without sense than misapply it as you do. ❜
- ❛ You must be the best judge of your own happiness. ❜
- ❛ Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing ; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature ; and I do not think I ever shall. ❜
- ❛ Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise. ❜
- ❛ If I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream. ❜
- ❛ If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. ❜
- ❛ Faultless in spite of all her faults. ❜
- ❛ A heroine whom no one but myself will much like. ❜
- ❛ There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ❜
- ❛ Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its fragrance on the desert air. ❜
- ❛ I pity you. I thought you cleverer. ❜
- ❛ Evil to some is always good to others. ❜
- ❛ I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. ❜
- ❛ She is loveliness itself. ❜
- ❛ Time does not compose me. ❜
- ❛ A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her. ❜
- ❛ I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice. ❜
- ❛ I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be any more. ❜
- ❛ I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment. ❜
- ❛ I examined my own heart. And there you were. Never, I fear, to be removed. ❜
- ❛ With all your little faults, you are an excellent creature. ❜
- ❛ You have another long walk before you. ❜
BOOK STARTERS VOL.48 NIGHTS AT THE CIRCUS ANGELA CARTER
- ❛ The child’s laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. ❜
- ❛ What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? ❜
- ❛ Out of the frying pan into the fire! ❜
- ❛ We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. ❜
- ❛ She sleeps. And now she wakes each day a little less. ❜
- ❛ And, oh, God … how frequently I weep! ❜
- ❛ From the coffin of your madness there is no escape. ❜
- ❛ I am feeling supernatural tonight. I want to eat diamonds. ❜
- ❛ All the same there is a chance that if we keep on shaking our chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles will part. ❜
- ❛ It was sad music fit to make you cut your throat. ❜
- ❛ Nothing is more boring than being forced to play. ❜
- ❛ Amongst the monsters, I am well hidden; who looks for a leaf in a forest? ❜
- ❛ Wherein does a woman’s honour reside? In her vagina or in her spirit? ❜
- ❛ Perhaps…I could not be content with mere contentment! ❜
- ❛ Have you ever stared stark failure in the face? The trick is to outstare it. ❜
- ❛ Sometimes it seems that the faces exist of themselves, in a disembodied somewhere, waiting for the one who will wear them, who will bring them to life. ❜
- ❛ I have the febrile gaiety of a being without a past, without a present, yet I exist. ❜
- ❛ I felt myself turning, willy-nilly, from a woman into an idea. ❜
- ❛ She looks wonderful, but she doesn’t look right. ❜
- ❛ The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind. ❜
- ❛ I raised you up to fly to the heavens, not to brood over a clutch of eggs! ❜
- ❛ I love to hear my bones rattle. That’s how I know I’m alive. ❜
- ❛ I learnt, first, as the birds do, from the birds. ❜
- ❛ Inside and outside match exactly, but both are badly wrong. ❜
- ❛ During the less-than-blink of time it took the last chime to die, there came a vertiginous sensation. ❜
- ❛ I fear a wound not of the body but the soul, an irreconcilable division between myself and the rest of humankind. ❜
- ❛ I fear the proof of my own singularity. ❜
- ❛ Still nothing could calm the fearful storm in my erupting skin. ❜
- ❛ Petersburg, loveliest of all hallucinations. ❜
- ❛ A breathless second between black forest and the frozen sea. ❜
MOVIE STARTERS VOL.16 THE OTHERS ALEJANDRO AMENÁBAR
- ❛ I’m beginning to feel totally cut off from the world. ❜
- ❛ What does this all mean? Where are we? ❜
- ❛ Sometimes I bleed. ❜
- ❛ If you see a ghost, you say “hello”. ❜
- ❛ The war is not over. ❜
- ❛ You’re not going. You left us once already. ❜
- ❛ You can’t go! ❜
- ❛ I loved you, but that wasn’t enough, was it? ❜
- ❛ If you’re dead, then leave me in peace. ❜
- ❛ The only thing that moves here is the light, but it changes everything. ❜
- ❛ I won’t ask for forgiveness for something I didn’t do! ❜
- ❛ Sometimes the world of the living gets mixed up with the world of the dead. ❜
- ❛ Death of a loved one can lead people to do the strangest things. ❜
- ❛ Sooner or later, they will find you. ❜
- ❛ They’re everywhere - they say this house is theirs. ❜
- ❛ You’re always teasing me, and telling lies. I’m sick of it. ❜
- ❛ Others will come. Sometimes we’ll sense them. Other times, we won’t. ❜
- ❛ No crying now. No crying. Stop that. Here. Look what an awful face you’ve got when you cry. ❜
- ❛ You listen to me. I’ve seen them too. ❜
- ❛ You’ll see. There are going to be some big surprises. There are going to be… changes. ❜
- ❛ Why did you go and fight that stupid war that had nothing to do with us? Why didn’t you stay like the others did? ❜
- ❛ Your place was here with your family. ❜
- ❛ So you say you know this house well? ❜
- ❛ I wasn’t expecting you so soon. ❜
- ❛ What’s the matter? Has the cat got your tongue? ❜
- ❛ You mean they just vanished? Into thin air? ❜
- ❛ No door must be opened without the previous one being closed first. ❜
- ❛ Here, most of the time, you can hardly see your way. ❜
- ❛ Whatever you do, don’t open the curtains. ❜
- ❛ Now, come on. Eyes closed. ❜
