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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 3222f00 | She'd intended to sign with an escort service, but fucked up and immediately acquired a heroin habit which detoured her career to a massage parlor, cranking out handjobs like Dunkin' cranked out donuts. | Jack Kerley | ||
| 31bc53e | If you don't make mistakes, they'll notice you and they'll get to like you,' she added. Eilis | Colm Tóibín | ||
| f5e4b50 | It was later, when she got home and lay in the bed after her evening meal, that the day she had just spent would seem like one of the longest of her life as she would find herself going through it scene by scene. Even tiny details stayed in her mind. When she deliberatively tried to think about something else, or leave her mind blank, events from the day would come quickly back. For each day, she thought, she needed a whole other day to con.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 8f9a431 | Ne znam kolko vreme shcheshe da otselee na brega, ako ne go biakh spasil. Niamam predstava kolko trae zhivot't na kam'nite po ueksfordskite plazhove. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 5278a92 | There's an immense dramatic possibility in describing that universe. The books, for me, were an enormous relief in that sense of how they were written to allow primary emotion, elemental emotion, to matter enormously but to give the thing an extraordinary flow so you don't notice at what point that you're actually overwhelmed by this. There's no showiness, at all. It's the opposite of showiness. I think, if it was a painting, it could be ve.. | fiction short-stories | Colm Tóibín | |
| b997fff | A mezhduvremenno imam samo tazi k'shcha,tazi svetlina, tazi svoboda, i shche prekarvam vremeto, stiga da imam nuzhnata smelost, v s'zertsavane na moreto, shche otbeliazvam promenite mu i zvutsite, koito izdava, shche izuchavam khorizonta, shche slusham viat'ra ili shche se naslazhdavam na tishinata, kogato e tikho. I dori v nai-d'lbokite si s'nishcha niama da letia tv'rde blizo do sl'ntseto ili tv'rde nisko nad moreto. V'zmozhnostta za vsic.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| cf8ea2e | in this waking time his presence, once so solid, lacked any substance or form; it was merely a shadow at the edge of every moment of the day and night. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| f9a26e3 | Carefully, she went back up the stairs and found that if she moved along the first landing she would be able to see him from above. Somehow, she thought, if she could look at him, take him in clearly when he was not trying to amuse her or impress her, something would come to her, some knowledge, or some ability to make a decision. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| f084e4e | Finally, she let herself feel how much she had lost, how much she would miss. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 3a3f0e7 | I have,' Georgina said. 'I go home once a year to see my mam. It's a lot of suffering for a week. By the time I've recovered I have to go back. But I love seeing them all. We're not getting any younger, any of us, so it's nice to spend a week together. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| d3b3523 | the idea that what had happened could be erased, that the burden that was on her now could be lifted, that the past could be restored and could make its way effortlessly into a painless present. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 47ef510 | I have to give up everything, the house, the servants, my friends, my whole life. I will freeze to death or I will die of boredom. It will be a race between the two. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 67fbacd | There will always be reservations, things one must leave out, events one can't explain without handing over a full map of one's life, unfolding it, making clear that all the lines and contours stand for long days and nights when things were bad or good, or when things were too small to be described at all: when things just were. This is a life. | narrative storytelling | Colm Tóibín | |
| 10472a4 | There were always children, Miss | Colm Tóibín | ||
| c2f2699 | It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him. | loneliness | Colm Tóibín | |
| ffd114d | I'm hungry." "We're all hungry. But, darling, you don't need to look hungry. Pretend you are full." "And" | Colm Tóibín | ||
| fafc38a | The world has loosened, like a woman preparing for bed who lets her hair flow free. And I am whispering the words, knowing that words matter, and smiling as I say them to the shadows of the gods of this place who linger in the air to watch me and hear me. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 0f1f33e | The memory of my name will last longer than the lives of many men. | name | Colm Tóibín | |
| ea44fa2 | I saw him trying to struggle and call out. But because of the robe, he could not move and his voice could not be heard. I caught his hair and pulled his head back. I showed him the knife, pointing it first towards his eyes until he flinched, before I stabbed him in the neck just beneath the ear, moving aside to avoid the jet of spurting blood, and then, pushing the blade further into his neck, I began to drag it slowly across his throat, sl.. | Colm Tóibín | ||
| 4c47a18 | Time could heal, but it wouldn't make wrongs go away. Time came back like a reminder. Time folded with memory. In a moment, everything could fold itself up, and time stand still. | time memories karen-tei-yamashita tropic-of-orange memory | Karen Tei Yamashita | |
| 6d20b90 | The oaks and firs stood up as they reached the interstate and pushed on through the South West Pacific Highway to the Salmon River Highway, past places with names like Falling Creek, Tualatin, Joe Dancer Park, and Erratic Rock. Places you could walk out into and die and never be found. He could imagine them seared by sun in summer and shrouded in snow in winter. Hammered by hail the size of coins in spring and autumn, pounding flesh and sma.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 69cef7f | Science fiction didn't see the mobile phone coming. It certainly didn't see the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards. That, by the way, is what Steve Jobs meant when he said that iPads were magical. The central metaphor is magic. And perhaps magic seems an odd thing to bring up here, but magic and fiction are deeply entangled, and you are all .. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 2fda450 | The near future? The future of anything is like some massive weather system on the horizon, pushing out thunderheads all over the place, and it's impossible to predict where the lightning will strike. And in 2011 it's worse than ever. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 814349f | The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it. | Warren Ellis | ||
| c210735 | Ballardian banality comes from not getting the future that we were promised, or getting it too late to make the promised difference. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 2efeede | There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky. | Warren Ellis | ||
| d1012bb | the glowing glass windows many of us carry now, where we make things amazing happen by pointing at it with our fingers like goddamn wizards. | Warren Ellis | ||
| ec76a33 | Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have. | the-state-of-the-nation | Warren Ellis | |
| ce30d78 | Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 208aa5f | The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 0b63212 | There's a workaround for encroaching phone stupidity. The first thing I did when I got to my place in Austin - an apartment rented for three days over the internet - was connect the thing to wifi. Just like that, my secondary brain got all its little grey cells back. The next few days were all about scurrying from wifi field to field, trying to keep the thing on life support. It's a workaround. We live in a workaround culture. You have to j.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 01c32a1 | an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 01f2ee9 | In league with the fantastic. That's a thought to keep hold of. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 3fbf0a6 | The absolute best thing anyone can do is grab desperately at the throttle. But they don't. Because it's a speeding death kaleidoscope made out of tits." Adam" | Warren Ellis | ||
| 6f6c66a | The near future? Pop will go down into the tube station at midnight and have sex. Lots of sex. And all those genres I listed earlier? Every single year will generate a list of new genres like that. Then every six months. Then every month. Then every week. Pop will fuck and mutate and survive. The new sounds will be everywhere, in too many places for us to notice them all at once. A million glorious bursts of incoherent noise. | Warren Ellis | ||
| ef02fc3 | Look at a Segway and tell me it's not the world's shittiest witch's broomstick. We only wanted jetpacks because we couldn't make magic carpets work. | Warren Ellis | ||
| a1a718e | Because of the invisibility of any environment during the period of its innovation, man is only consciously aware of the environment that has preceded it; in other words, an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly;.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 0054803 | the future is a product, and you only get to vote with your money now, | Warren Ellis | ||
| b49f8fa | Whenever I find myself somehow fooled into doing one of these talks, it's on the grounds that some confused soul thinks that I will talk about the digital world and the future. What always happens is that I rant for an unspecified length of time about obscure history and fringe beliefs. So you need to understand that you are now trapped in this room with me and I've already been paid. This is my cunning plan. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 85122a0 | There are people out there so heavily specialized in wearable technology that they call shirts with networked devices built into them "wearable shirts." They're so deep into their own silo of futurism that they've forgotten how shirts work." | Warren Ellis | ||
| 0a66147 | a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone. | humor | Warren Ellis | |
| 861db22 | I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian. | Warren Ellis | ||
| d46414d | She fixed him with a gaze that said that she had looked into the void and that she was really not impressed with it. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 21fdb42 | The untreated cardboard sleeve around the venti-plus cup, stamped with biodegradable inks, proclaiming the coffee shop's proud independence, the simple black printing on the flecked card making its own statement about authenticity. | Warren Ellis |