"When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away."

-- Donald E. Westlake

#Gun Quotes #Fire Quotes #Guy Quotes

“The first love is the difficult love.”
“As the arrow that leaves the bow cannot be recaptured, what we say, senselessly, about others causes us great harm.”
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.”
“It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.”
“Stay close to those who are not afraid to be vulnerable, because they have confidence in themselves and know that, at some point in our lives, we all stumble; they do not interpret this as a sign of weakness, but of humanity. Avoid those who talk a great deal before acting, those who never take a step without being quite sure that it will bring them respect.”
“Revolution is something that actually starts in individual hearts.”
“I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically.”
“Iâ€™m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Iâ€™ve seen a chunk of the universe, true, but thereâ€™s still so much more to see. I doubt Iâ€™ll ever cure this wanderlust, and Iâ€™m content with dedicating my life to failing to sate it... Heâ€™s never going to sit at my feet and write me poems, which is good because I hate poetry, except dirty ones that rhyme.”

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