yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a grea — Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

now look, she said, stretched out on the bed, I don’t want anything personal, let’s just do it, I don’t want to get invo — Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

D snorted. “Gotta be prepared.” He looked up at Jack’s face, frowning. “What?” Jack shrugged. “It’s just….” He sighed. “ — Jane Seville, Zero at the Bone

When something needs to be ironed I put it in the ironing basket. If a year goes by and the item is still in the basket — Janet Evanovich, Three to Get Deadly

A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you — Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

$Duke’s warm pink lips brushed his gently at first and then more firmly. He held the kiss for a long, breathless moment before pulling back a fraction of an inch. “Who’s a fag now?” His deep voice was — Evangeline Anderson, Str8te Boys$

I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly en — Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver

The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later — Richard Rohr

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim — Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen. — Jack Kilborn, Serial Uncut: Extended Edition

Tally wondered if you could talk somebody out of their brain damage. — Scott Westerfeld

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. — Frank Herbert

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