"A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen."

-- Laird Barron

#Mouths Quotes #Pay Quotes #Tradition Quotes

“Time for some thrillin' heroics.”
“It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”
“I swear so soon as age will permit ... I will use fire and steel to arrest the destiny of Rome.”
“People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.”
“They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.”
“All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them.”
“I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!”
“It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

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