"Vamps who are dying, or think they are, give a piercing, eardrum-bursting shriek, like the love child of a screech owl and a mountain lion on crystal meth, amplified like a seventies rock band."

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Source : Faith Hunter (2012). “Raven Cursed: A Jane Yellowrock Novel”, p.307, Penguin

Faith Hunter

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier.”
“This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first began on it, my mother was sick. When she passed away, I got on stage and played that night. The music helped take me away.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.”
“In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.”

Source : "Traveling with the Stars: Mark Burnett". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2009.
“The doctor used to tell me that every person about to die becomes a music box playing the melody that best describes his life, his character, and his hopes. For some, it's a popular waltz; for others, a march.”

Source : Patrick Modiano (1971). “Night rounds”
“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.”
“Remember, the prince is like a mirror exposed to the eyes of all his subjects who continually look to him as a pattern on which to model themselves, and who in consequence without much trouble discover his vices and virtues.”
“Me and my wife had somehow finally reached a moment in which our lives made sense, in which we were comfortable in certain material ways, and in that very moment we were faced with a medical situation that could only really be resolved with death or time. Suddenly we had become these people who didn't drink anything but kale, who ended many of our conversations with tears, and for whom no future was guaranteed. It was kind of funny.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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