"Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star."

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Source : Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

Jeff VanderMeer

#Stars Quotes #Path Quotes #Fantasy Quotes

“Who hath no faith to man, to God hath none.”

Source : "Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois". Book by George Chapman, 1613.
“Where man is the end, or the means, all men are mean.”

Source : Harry Hooton (1961). “It is Great to be Alive”
“The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.”
“Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she didn't want him to stop. Her back arched, her body shattered, she howled.”

Source : Annette Curtis Klause (2007). “Blood and Chocolate”, p.263, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.”
“After I won a match at a tournament I tried to repeat everything I did the day I won. Before my next match, I ate the same food, I went to the same restaurant etc. Sometimes it got very boring.”
“If the play works in an emotional and engaging way purely from what's on the page, then what's on the stage will be the icing on the cake. If the play didn't work as a play on its own terms, none of the magic, none of the special effects or theatricality of it all, would add up to anything.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.”

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