#z

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#dexter #lizard #vintage #crime

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#hst #reason

You may be trying to claim the woman, his eyes said, but make no mistake, she and the fucking fireplace are mine. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#mistakes

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#malice #stupidity #earth

Oh, and I certainly don't suffer from schizophrenia. I quite enjoy it. And so do I. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#schizophrenia #suffering

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine. ↗

— Erwin Rommel

#his #magazine #more #round #who

And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end. ↗

— Iain Pears

#friendship #dreams

We are so accustomed to the comforts of "I cannot", "I do not want to" and "it is too difficult" that we forget to realize when we stop doing things for ourselves and expect others to dance around us, we are not achieving greatness. We have made ourselves weak. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#comfort-zone #independence #self-help #self-reliance #independence

Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives in this state of high alert with guns pointed at each other's heads and fingers trembling on the trigger? ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#horror #humanity #terror #war #war-on-terror

The mighty hunter,” I quipped as we snuck out the backdoor, escaping into the yard. “He can take down vicious rabids and rampaging boars, but one old lady can make him flee in terror.” “One scary old lady,” he corrected me, looking relieved to be out of the house. “You didn’t hear what she told me when I got up — you’re so cute I could put you in a pie. Tell me that’s not the creepiest thing you’ve ever heard.” His voice climbed a few octaves, turning shrill and breathy. “Today for dessert, we have apple pie, blueberry pie and Ezekiel pie. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#zeke-and-allie #terrorism