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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b4d9ca4 | I die. I,uh, have a terrible fever in my head and it gets hotter and hotter and hotter until my head is a fire, a forge, a star. I set the world on fire and everybody dies. O the embarrassment. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| f8a089d | I die. My footprints are cursed. I walk around the village not knowing that all who cross where I have been will stay in estrous zero and bear no young. Eventually all die. O the embarrassment. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 0c0406c | I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them lose the will, and all die. O the embarrassment. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 01ece44 | About a month later, we left for our final training exercise, maneuvers on the planet Charon. Though nearing perihelion, it was still more than twice as far from the sun as Pluto. The troopship was a converted "cattlewagon" made to carry two hundred colonists and assorted bushes and beasts. Don't think it was roomy, though, just because there were half that many of us. Most of the excess space was taken up with extra reaction mass and ordna.. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| af9b782 | I never found anybody else and I don't want anybody else. I don't care whether you're ninety years old or thirty. If I can't be your lover, I'll be your nurse. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 0b8819e | Don't worry about that, Man, just make out my ticket. | major-william-mandella | Joe Haldeman | |
| ffed0a5 | Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled; Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victory. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 5fa2ad2 | My back pay came to $892,746,012. Not in the form of bales of currency, fortunately; on Heaven they used an electronic credit exchange, so I carried my fortune around in a little machine with a digital readout. To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 4964d42 | War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained. | Joe Haldeman | ||
| 66b130a | We're headed for Aleph-7. Panty raid." New slang term for the type of operation whose main object was to gather Tauran artifacts, and prisoners if possible. I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic." | Joe Haldeman | ||
| c8c412b | I wonder what happened to him, I wonder what happened to all of them, this wondering is the nature of matter, each of us a loose particle, an infinity of paths through the park, probable ones, improbable ones, none of them real until observed whatever real means, and for something so solid matter contains terrible, terrible, terrible expanses of nothing, nothing, nothing... | David Mitchell | ||
| 9dc57e1 | Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion. | honor patrick-mckenzie quotes sacred | Dennis Lehane | |
| f8af230 | You've always had a soft heart, son. You just hide it better than most." Danny shrugged. "Starting to hide it from myself, then, I guess." "Always the danger, that. Then one day, sure, you can't remember where you left all those pieces you tried so hard to hold on. Or why you work so hard at the holding." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e9f5ba2 | So he's a bad guy." "Everyone's bad." "No," Bob said, "they're not. Most people are okay." "Yeah?" A smile of disbelief. "Yeah. They just, I dunno, make a lotta messes and then they make more messes trying to clean those first messes up and after a while that's your life." She sniffled and chuckled at the same time. "That's it, uh?" "That's it sometimes." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 2625f7b | Rumors or no, Thomas, if the men strike, we'll see fecal gravity at work like never before. Ain't a man in this room who won't be covered in shit. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f00ecc7 | She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 10625ab | As far as I could see, she didn't take any better care of her apparel than I did mine, but I owned shirts that looked like they'd been run through a car engine half an hour after I removed the price tags, and she had socks from high school that were still as white as palace linen. Women and their clothes often astounded me this way, but I figured it was one of those mysteries I'd never solve - like what really happened to Amelia Earhart or .. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 7adb3b4 | Work and its results always outlived those who labored at it as any Egyptian slave-ghost will tell you. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 47adad4 | Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button? | lifestyle teenagers | Dennis Lehane | |
| b2d53d4 | He knew her. He knew her, this man she'd married, this man she'd committed herself to walking through this life with. He knew her. And--wonder of wonders--he was still here. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 59ce9a4 | Lui avrebbe voluto chiederle che rumore fa un cuore quando si rompe per la gioia, quando e sufficiente la vista di qualcuno per riempirti come ne il cibo, ne il sangue, ne l'aria potranno mai fare; quando ti senti come se fossi nato per vivere un momento preciso e quel momento, per qualche ragione particolare, era proprio quello. | amore aria cuore gioia momento preciso rompere rumore sangue vista vita vivere | Dennis Lehane | |
| 7203b1e | The only people who ask questions like, 'Did he want to be something besides a bartender,' are people who can become whatever they want. The rest of us are just Americans. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| cb6f784 | He'd known her, of course; everyone in the neighborhood knew of Katie. She was that beautiful. But few people really knew her. Beauty could do that; it scared you off, made you keep your distance. It wasn't like in the movies where the camera made beauty seem like something that invited you in. In the real world, beauty was like a fence to keep you out, back you off. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 792502c | Danny would have thought it comical if it had come from any other source, on any other day, in any other country. But Curtis had come to the table with something they'd never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and outlived in the modern age: a kind of fundamental righteousness that only the fundamental possessed. Unfettered by doubt, it achieved the appearance of moral intelligence and a resolute consciousness. The terribl.. | freedom-of-speech religious-fundamentalism | Dennis Lehane | |
| 3af5786 | Happiness made Marv anxious because he knew it didn't last. But happiness destroyed was worth wrapping your arms around because it always hugged you back. | pessimism | Dennis Lehane | |
| 6e603f5 | The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she never asked for. | mystic-river woman-s-character | Dennis Lehane | |
| bfb727b | Dave watched him standing up at the bar, chatting with one of the old dockworkers as he waited for his drinks, Dave thinking the guys in here knew what it was to be men. Men without doubts, men who never questioned the rightness of their own actions, men who weren't confused by the world or what was expected of them in it. It was fear, he guessed. That's what he'd always had that they didn't. Fear had settled into him at such an early age .. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| f40393e | It occurred to him that thinking like this could explain why, even after all the jobs he'd pulled, he rarely had much money in his pockets. Sometimes it seemed like he stole money from one place just to give it away somewhere else. | money philanthropy | Dennis Lehane | |
| bc7094e | When you go to the other place, part of you doesn't come back.' | Dennis Lehane | ||
| d8568a7 | We all die alone...... I could have helped her with the dying. | mystic-river | Dennis Lehane | |
| 68e7ba5 | On September 7th, after the Cubs dropped Game Three, the two teams boarded the Michigan Central together to embark on the twenty-seven hour trip, and Babe Ruth got drunk and started stealing hats. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e303063 | But Curtis had come to the table with something they'd never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and out-lived in the modern age: a kind of fundamental righteousness that only the fundamental possessed. Unfettered by doubt, it achieved the appearance of moral intelligence and a resolute conscience. The terrible thing was how small it made you feel, how weaponless. How could you fight righteous rage if the only arms you bore.. | fundamentalism righteousness | Dennis Lehane | |
| 22852fa | All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend. | kehane moonlight-mile | Dennis Lehane | |
| 21823c9 | You do not want to be a noble person?" She held her thumb and index finger close together. "A little bit?" He shook his head. "I've gt nothing against noble people, I've just noticed they rarely live past forty." "Neither do gangsters." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 5be02df | and two men standing up top, weeping like children because they'd somehow never known the world could get this bad. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 847a302 | You've mislaid your trust in the past, had your faith in people broken, shattered even. You've been betrayed. Lied to. So you've chosen not to trust. And this protects you to some extent, I'm sure. But it also isolates you from the rest of humanity. You are disconnected. You are displaced. And the only way to find your way back to a place, to a connection, is to trust again. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 8b87afe | This is America . . . where every adult shall have the full and inalienable right to eat her young | Dennis Lehane | ||
| e21a526 | But always in the back of your throat is this scream, barely suppressed. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| ade63ea | Achievement? Depends on luck--to be born in the right place at the right time and be of the right color. To live long enough to be in the right place at the right time to make one's fortune. Yes, yes, hard work and talent make up the difference. They are crucial, and you know I'd never argue different. But the foundation of all lives is luck. Good or bad. Luck is life and life is luck. And it's leaking from the moment it lands in your hand. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0391244 | New Music, I guess, is all those bands Angie listens to. They have names like Depeche Mode and The Smiths and all they sound the same to me - like a bunch of skinny white British nerds on Thorazine. The Stones, when they started, were a bunch of skinny white British nerds too, but they never sounded like they were on Thorazine. Even if they were. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| d25cd5c | Music"--he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger--"music speaks for the soul because words are too small." | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0b20e78 | I don't believe he casts people into eternal flame for fornication, as you pointed out. Or for believing in a version of him that is a little off the mark. I believe--or, I want to believe--he considers the worst sins to be those we commit in his name. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| de2d766 | Growing up, Joe had adored his brother, Then he'd come to hate him. Now, he mostly didn't think about him. When he did, he had to admit, he missed his laugh. | Dennis Lehane | ||
| 0ae47a5 | This was a cruel trick of the mind, yes, but Teddy had long ago accepted the logic of it--waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without a history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present. What | Dennis Lehane |