"And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction."

-- Justin Cronin

#Fiction Quotes #Grew Up Quotes #Apocalyptic Quotes

“Arthur blinked at the screens and felt he was missing something important. Suddenly he realized what it was. "Is there any tea on this spaceship?" he asked.”
“somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near”
“I look at myself as the 'Batman' of track -- a vigilante. You may not like me, but I'm needed.”
“Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster
“You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.”
“None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.”
“I've seen a lot of movies that were great and scary, but not particularly fancy in their filmmaking or performance. And they're still scary, and I think a good horror movie should be scary above all things.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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