"And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death."

-- Ellen Hopkins

#Pain Quotes #Veins Quotes #Alive Quotes

“One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.”
“Hiro watches the large, radioactive, spear-throwing killer drug lord ride his motorcycle into Chinatown. Which is the same as riding it into China, as far as chasing him down is concerned.”
“The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.”
“The good thing about life is that you can research anywhere you are. I'm just constantly gathering little bits of information all the time. I'm always grabbing something out of the headlines, out of the news or reading a book about astronomy and just trying to figure out how to get my head around the facts but the bigger stress is trying to connect those facts to normal life situations and our relationship with God.”
“... for some of us life always comes C.O.D.”
“We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.”
“Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness â€” as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne â€” and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.”
“Being a feminist simply means you believe in equal rights, and I think if you ask anybody if they believe in equal rights, they'll say yes, man or woman. And if they don't - who the heck would say that?”

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