#k

you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes ↗

— Margaret Weis

#humor #smoking #zifnab #death

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#jake #lestat #lucifer #death

I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read. ↗

— Alison Sinclair

#death #life #shadowborn #death

On soft feet, by none detected, Dealing death, by most rejected, Killed by claw, since resurrected, Marked by X, two lines connected. Finally, they intersected, Two lines met, one unexpected. ↗

— suzzane collins

#peace-maker #rat #underland #death

I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed like the thing. Then I screwed up and left it in my desk at work ↗

— J.D. Robb

#present #roarke #death

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. ↗

— Michael R. LeGault

#thought #work #death

I'm Allen Walker!" My life....is over...I'm going to die.... ↗

— Katsura Hoshino

#angst #death #die #horror #humor

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table; indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.'; They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason; they just love. ↗

— Stephen Levine

#compassion #death #dying #kindness #love

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#roarke #death

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#john-updike #solipsism #death