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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 22353b0 | Se mi amaste, oggi vi ammazzereste tutti. | Warren Ellis | ||
| c966842 | constitute a horror story wherein the villains of the piece stole power from a stable governance system in order to cast the population of the world into an ongoing lab experiment with no plan or boundary. A dismal science. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 630b40e | MEANEY: Do you ever miss having that being-out-in-the-world job environment? ELLIS: God, no. Have you ever been out in the world? It's full of fucking people. If there's one thing I hate, it's people. | Patrick Meaney | ||
| 8148acd | He was a futurist. They were all futurists. Everyone here gazed into the abyss for a living. Do it long enough, and the abyss would gaze back into you. If the abyss did that for long enough, the people who paid you for your eyes would send you to Normal Head. The | Warren Ellis | ||
| f42b894 | He could be a wise man of the woods, spoken of in whispers, his words and thoughts becoming spooky action at a distance in the world beyond. A secret wizard of the future. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 36ca74d | She outright murdered Clough with her eyes. | Warren Ellis | ||
| dc631fb | I'm not sure that anything has happened this week. I got out to London for an evening to have dinner with an old writer friend. I stared into space for a couple of days because An Idea was happening to me, and also because the temperature drop out here on the Delta has gotten into my gammy leg and I was mostly a beached manatee until everything in the knee stopped bending and changing shape. This is, of course, why it's just as well that th.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 7265500 | I'm clearly insane. I'm threatening your life with a toothbrush, | Warren Ellis | ||
| 8b52d72 | Adam's entire life felt like lead in his bones right now. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 05fa794 | a giant capable of circumcising redwoods with his teeth... | Warren Ellis | ||
| a20a19b | Come on," said the Director. "You are all completely mad people who mess around with technology and weird social theory for fun until your brains shit themselves and you fall over. Any of you could have done this." | Warren Ellis | ||
| 6d4487b | He took it in for a moment. No internet. No phone service beyond the front desk. No television. No news. No information flow at all. Just a music collection and, somewhere, a library he evidently had to be medically fit to browse. It was quiet. It was actually quiet. He couldn't even hear other people. This little room was as close to sensory deprivation as he'd experienced since ... when? Childhood? | Warren Ellis | ||
| a8b5f06 | His quant band was gone, he noticed: he wouldn't be tracking his steps, his blood oxygen, heart rate, local EF field activity, or the five other things it automagically quantified and uploaded and shared. Digitally, he would actually appear dead. | Warren Ellis | ||
| d8c29cf | Get some rest. | Warren Ellis | ||
| f5a6723 | I opened my eyes to see the rat taking a piss in my coffee mug. It | Warren Ellis | ||
| 297bb60 | He wasn't pleased with himself for appraising the girl in the tank. He thought of her as half-pretty, the sort of girl one would find modeling for art classes in dire community colleges. Putting her cheap panties and her ex-boyfriend's shirt back on to wander around the easels afterward and wondering how grotesque she must really be, to have summoned up the deformities whacked down in merciless charcoal strikes. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 2b49789 | What?" the Director snapped. "Am I telling stories out of school? Was it a secret that I preside over a large sweaty pile of people in a useless fake profession who somehow didn't have the mental fortitude to play pretend in return for paychecks all day? While I, Chief Asswiper to the Thought-Leader Elite, have to pay for three evil children, two shitty houses, and one supposed woman who stopped fucking me five years before she threw me out.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 57e96fd | Cos a cop asking a guy for a discount on his crack, that's screwed up. Sign of the goddamn apocalypse is what it is. | Warren Ellis | ||
| c42512f | As an aside; here's that old magic trick. Aleister Crowley told a friend he could make any random fall over without touching them. To illustrate, he walked behind a stranger for a block or so, matching his footsteps precisely to the stranger's. He then scuffed his heels, as if stumbling and falling. And the stranger fell over. The stranger had heard himself fall, and so he fell. If Facebook tells you that everything around you is sad and de.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 233055f | We hold up iPhones and, if we're relatively conscious of history, we point out that this is an amazing device that contains a live map of the world and the biggest libraries imaginable and that it's an absolute paradigm shift in personal communication and empowerment. And then some knob says that it looks like something from Star Trek: The Next Generation, and then someone else says that it doesn't even look as cool as Captain Kirk's commun.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| b86b696 | You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me, and feeding and clothing me and all... -- and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to do and sometimes I just want to scream -- and what I've got to look forward to is my body breaking breaking and something flipping off the switch in my head -- I go through all this -- a.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| e316a68 | You went to all the trouble of conceiving me, and giving birth to me, and raising me, and feeding and clothing me and all... -- and you make me cry and things hurt so much and disappointments crush my heart every day and I can't do half the things I want to do and sometimes I just want to scream -- and what I've got to look forward to is my body breaking and something flipping off the switch in my head -- I go through all this -- and then t.. | Warren Ellis | ||
| b847595 | In his other hand is a spear made from duct tape, a smashed Nokia phone from 1998 and a selfie stick. Welcome to the future. | Warren Ellis | ||
| 2d95930 | In a funny way, you could say he taught me how to write super-hero comics. He said, "What you do is you take a soap opera, and you take out all the sex scenes and replace them with people punching each other. That's it. It's the same structure." | Patrick Meaney | ||
| c6f84b9 | That feeling about trains, for instance. Of course he had long outgrown the boyish glamour of the steam-engine. Yet there was something that had an appeal for him in trains, especially in night-trains, which always put queer, vaguely improper notions in his head - though he would have been hard put to it to define them. Also he had an impression that those who leave by night-trains leave forever - an impression heightened the previous night.. | Georges Simenon | ||
| dff1585 | just ridden | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| b9bb0b9 | De Mortimer was willing to wager his hopes for salvation that self-interest was the one drink no man refused, but he had never understood why most men must sweeten it so lavishly ere they could swallow it. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| e7c1ce7 | if a man is a fool to wed for love, he must be utterly daft to wed for lust. No one with sense would expect a candle to burn forever, so why should a flame kindled in bed? | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| dff19ba | Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 7a52d0f | Ned never argued with their father, he was unfailingly polite and then nonchalantly went his own way; whereas, he, Edmund, deferred dutifully to his father's authority and then found himself resenting both his parent's austere discipline and his own reluctance to rebel. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| a503b59 | what an unfair advantage the dead had over the living, for there could be no rebuttal, no denial, nothing but the accusing silence of the grave. | graves silence wales | Sharon Kay Penman | |
| 23deb6f | I would look dreadful in black. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| b2cb141 | Richard forced him from his sickbed, broke his power, his pride. But you, John, you broke his heart. I truly wonder which be the greater sin. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 57b03e5 | In a contest of wills between John and his mother, he did not think John would prevail, indeed he hoped he would not. But he did not care to be a witness to their confrontation; he suspected Eleanor's methods would be neither maternal nor merciful. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| e6c45e0 | Otherwise, I'd like nothing better than...conversing with you. You're such a deep, penetrating conversationalist, after all, | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 6c6d9fd | back all he'd been | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| b67ee59 | A gain I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to men of skill but time and chance happen to them all. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 79d70b5 | Memory is merciful, Joanna, more so than man. It fades past pain, yet holds bright the colors in recalled joy. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| ff81cb5 | Marriage was a Sacrament, yet these festivities more often resembled pagan rites than Christian nuptials. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 83ef5af | I asked Simon if he'd ever feared that all our struggles, all our suffering might be in vain. Not a priest's question, and he shamed me by his answer, by the shining certainty of his faith. He said no, my lady, and then he told me of a cave he'd found whilst in the Holy Land. It was said to have magical powers; a man could shout and long after it had died away, it echoed back as if from the very bowels of the earth. Simon had so marveled at.. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 367d52e | As wretched as she was, she wanted Harry to be miserable, too. And yet, she was aware of an underlying sense of sadness. Theirs may have been the first war in which there were no winners, only losers. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 6ad4be5 | Hal and Richard show all the good will of Cain and Abel. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 5459687 | Will did not think that was fair, but he accepted that kings were often unfair and there was naught to be done about it. | Sharon Kay Penman | ||
| 5e2737a | As they lay entwined together afterwards, they both were sure their future was blessed, and it would never have occurred to them that Henry and Eleanor had once believed that, too. | Sharon Kay Penman |