"The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand herbs, made from altars. Those who know enough to drink Chartreuse at Mardi Gras are lucky, because the distilled essence of the town burns in their bellies. Chartreuse glows in the dark, and if you drink enough of it, your eyes will turn bright green."

-- Poppy Z. Brite

#Eye Quotes #Dark Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Love is scary because it pulls you in with an intense force, a supermassive black hole which looks like nothing from the outside but from the inside challenges every reasonable thing you know. You lose yourself, like I lost myself, in the warmest of annihilations.”
“The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.”
“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”
“The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.”
“Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.”
“The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.”
“Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?”
“Wounds make better lessons than lectures.”

Source : Brian Herbert, Kevin Anderson (2003). “Dune: House Harkonnen”, p.424, Spectra

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