Quotes of: Thompson Keyword

Why does it not surprise me that you talk during sex?

Do or Die

Until we look from the bottom up we have nothing.

The Dance of the Dissident Daughter

Humans draw a hard line between thinking something and saying it aloud.

Defenders

They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241)

Drowning Instinct

So I got on with the business of lawyering away at the evidence. Minimizing it. Defending Jacob.

Defending Jacob

Love is a kind of killing, Addy," she says. "Don't you know that?

Dare Me

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

Denial

...his lazy eye drifting around the room like a child looking for the bathroom.

Downtown Owl

The single greatest advantage anyone can take into any battle is hope.

Darkfever

Foolishness pours out of an open mouth.... but wisdom sneaks in through the ears....

The Dread

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Darkfever

But she loves me. Me. Just the way I am.

Destined

The very air they breathed was almost a juice.

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.

Everything Beautiful Began After

Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept.

Everything Beautiful Began After

We’re happier when the assholes are villains.

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).

Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

The love of a man is like a drop of color into something clear.

Everything Beautiful Began After

We have to destroy the radioactive brain of Madame Curie.

Emperor Mollusk versus The Sinister Brain

Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.

On the Edge

Freedom from one man is just another one.

The Empathy Exams: Essays