"Man is a god in ruins.”
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
“Lookee
here, hot shot. You can forget your plans, man. ‘Cause we’re gonna stop you.
Gonna stop you cold.”
“I
don’t like the life you’re leading.”
“Well,
it’s MY LIFE, dad!”
-Breakin’
2: Electric Boogaloo
"The
Canal was frozen in its concrete sluice like a frozen river of rose-milk, its
surface humped and cracked and cloudy. It was moveless yet completely alive in
this harshly puritanical winterlight; it had its own unique and difficult
beauty."
"We
laughed a lot back then...We were afraid all the time, but we couldn't stop
laughing, any more than I can stop now."
"I'm
the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a
bellyache."
-Stephen
King, It
"Speak
then and ask the forest and the loam.
What
do you hear? What does the land command?
The
earth is taken: this is not your home."
-Karl
Shapiro, "Travelogue for Exiles"
“Science
fiction is supposed to be about the future. Why are its fans so obsessed with
the past?”
-Con
Man
“This
place reeks of death and negative vibrations, and yet you walk around is if
nothing had happened!”
“You’re
asking me to forget everything I ever knew about physics! I’m not ready to do
that!”
-Video
Demons Do Psychotown
“You're
nobody's rainbow.
You're
nobody's princess.
You're
nobody's doorway but your own, and the only one who gets to tell you how your
story ends is you.”
-Seanan
McGuire
“It’s
hammer time.”
-Shaquille
O’Neal, holding a hammer in Steel (1997)
(Answering
phone)?“Hello?...I’m sorry, but the doctor died of rectal hemorrhaging...Would
you like his voice mail?”
-Citizen
Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
“His
lips were melting together, but he didn’t seem to notice.”
“At
twilight, I carried buckets of my wife out for burial.“
-Carlton
Mellick III, Sunset with a Beard
“There
are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.”
-G.K.
Chesterton
“What
will we do as the earth is set loose from the sun?”
-Friedrich
Nietzsche, The Gay Science
Also this doesn't really warrant an entry of its own, so here, these are some graphic novels (or "comic books," for all you snobs) that I've read and enjoyed lately:
Small
Gods Ray Friesen
Black
Panther v.2: A Nation Under Our Feet Ta-Nehisi
Coates
Creepshow Stephen King
Ghostbusters:
Total Containment Erik Burnham
Parasyte, Trilogy Hitosi Iwaaki
Batman,
v.10: Epilogue Scott Snyder
Harrow
County, v.5 Cullen Bunn
One
Punch Man, v.1 ONE
Spill
Zone Scott Westerfield
All
Star Batman, v.1 Scott Snyder
-Phony McFakename
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