"I was carrying two cargoes. Yes, one of them was horror, but the other one was hope."

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Source : Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

Chris Cleave

#Two Quotes #Horror Quotes

“No one ever recognizes me.”
“It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.”
“Hip-Hop started out in the heart”
“[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even nasty. But Beckford could plead sufficient "local colour" for it, and a contrast, again almost Shakespearean, between the flickering farce atrocities of the beginning and the sombre magnificence of the end. Beckford's claims, in fact, rest on the half-score or even half-dozen pages towards the end: but these pages are hard to parallel in the later literature of prose fiction.”
“What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.”
“The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.”
“I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.”
“There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.”

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