Quotes of: Degenerate Keyword

It felt as if she were bleeding - but it wasn't blood that leaked out of her, not something that could be easily transfused. Instead she was losing her dreams.

Firefly Lane

To me, merely and pretty were words that had nothing to do with each other. Pretty went with miraculously, and merely belonged in another paragraph entirely.

Fairest

People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.

Fated

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.

Fables, Vol. 14: Witches

More voices means less trust in any given voice.

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You

as the needs of all living things must, we have proved that it is a very safe thing to trust in the Lord our God.

Gold Cord

The problem with thinking up a new and original idea within a novel is that you have to make sure that Kurt Vonnegut did not already think of it.

The Gypsy Goddess

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

Good Prose: The Art of Nonfiction

God too, has sinned, that's what I used to think. He looked down on this blazing hell, and he remained silent. (2007: 142)

The Guest

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Heart's Blood

Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.

Heart's Blood

Lulu twirled in front of Jolene, banging into the seat. her eyes sparkled in that I'm-either-going-to-scream-or-fall-asleep-any-second kind of way.

Home Front

If you act for self-gain then no good can come of it. If you act selflessly, then you act well for all and you must not be afraid.

The Book of Atrus

Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

Beautiful Bedlam

Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn't know.

A Brain Wider Than the Sky: A Migraine Diary

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

Blade of Fortriu

I don’t feel old. I just feel like someone young who has something wrong with him.

The Blind Man's Garden

People don’t want novelty – they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

Broken Monsters

My mother sent me to psychiatrists since the age of four because she didn't think little boys should be sad. When my brother was born, I stared out the window for days. Can you imagine that?

Andy Kaufman