"When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead."

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Source : "Bangkok Haunts". Book by John Burdett, 2007.

John Burdett

#Light Quotes #Coffins Quotes #Goes On Quotes

“We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe”
“I grew up being teased for being overweight.”
“It's part of the fun of it to work with strong personalities.”
“We are born sad and we die sad, but meanwhile we love bodies whose sad beauty is a miracle.”
“What can you do with it? It's like a lot of yaks jumping about.”
“Economic development over the past two centuries has taken most of humanity from lives that were brutal, ignorant and short, to personal health and security, material comfort and knowledge that were unknown to the elites of the wealthiest and most powerful societies in earlier times.”
“You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it.”
“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”

Source : "A Touch of Class" by Carol Vanderheyden, (p. 60), 2003.

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