"Pretty things will swarm you like that, like your heart was a hive of electric bees."

-- Katherine Dunn

#Heart Quotes #Bees Quotes #Like You Quotes

“America is a place where you can be born into a low-income household but still lift yourself up, and it doesn't matter what color you are.”
“You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?”
“I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked up to them, and--no matter how difficult it would have been--made it abundantly clear that I was not seventeen but thirty. I could have--yet I couldn't because I didn't want to, the only thing I wanted was to prove that I was not an old-fashioned boy!”
“When I go out there onstage, I want to be more than just a blocky guy who waddles onto the posing platform. I want the girls to feel something.”
“Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.”

Source : Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.24, HarperCollins UK
“As an author you hope your characters have sparks but truly in the end they have minds of their own!”
“When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.”
“I do not need a thousand souls, I only need one, which is my master's.”

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