New System for Quoting
From now on I’ll sometimes make posts of multiple quotes instead of posting them one by one. Sometimes, still, I’ll post individual ones.
“The only thing worse than the thought it might all come tumbling down is the thought that we may go on like this forever.”
-Violet, MT Anderson, Feed
“In the rest of the world the stream of life still flowed as it had flowed for immemorial years. The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve and destroy brain, had still to develop.”
-HG Wells, The War of the Worlds
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow–that, in short, we are all going.”
-John Green, Looking for Alaska
Gravity; MT Anderson
“You toss something up in the air, and you expect it to come back down again.”
-Violet, MT Anderson, Feed
Life; MT Anderson
“I’m looking up at my leg. I’m moving my toes, squelching them. That’s a great feeling, squelching, like in mud? When it’s in your yard? And you know the day’s going to get hot again when the rain’s over, because that’s what the neighborhood association has decided? So you can just stand there, and wait for the sun?
“And it’s your time on Earth, I mean, your hundred years, that’s all you have, so there you are, on Earth, a little kid, the one time you’ll be a little kid, and you’re standing, waiting for the artificial sun, and feeling the mud, and at that point, your toes still work perfectly. So you stand there, and you squelch your toes, and you raise your arms up above your head, and you watch the clouds get sucked back into ducts in the sky. And that’s it. That’s an afternoon.
“That’s all.”
-Violet, MT Anderson, Feed
Distance; Richard Bach
“Can miles truly seperate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”
-Richard Bach
Death; Shakespeare
“Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.”
-William Shakespeare, Julius Ceasar
Death; JM Barrie
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
-Peter Pan, JM Barrie, Peter Pan
Metaphors; Neil Gaiman
I am so far out of my depth that… Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and similie into the place of things that are and it was changing him.
-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
Directions; Chinese Proverb
“If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”
-Chinese proverb
Morals; Lewis Carroll
“Every thing’s got a moral, if only you can find it.”
-Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Audience; Walter Ong
“The writer’s audience is always a fiction.”
-Walter Ong
