•"Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it - the same night, as a matter of fact."
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Ch. 9

"Rich man, poor man, come away,
Come to dance the Macabray,
Time to work and time to play,
Time to dance the Macabray,
One and all will hear and stay,
Come and dance the Macabray,
One to leave and one to stay,
And all will dance the Macabray,
Gracious lady, this I pray,
Join me in the Macabray,
Step and turn and walk and stay,
Now we dance the Macabray"

I have no words:
My voice is in my sword: thou bloodier villain
Than terms can give thee out!

Macduff, who is quickly growing on me.

Cheshire Cat: I went to a hunting party once, I didn't like it. Terrible people. They all started hunting me!

Alice: Life must be hard for you.

Cheshire Cat: But I grin and bear it!

haha I like this one.

"The difference between a man and a hero is simple, if given a choice a man will live, while a hero is willing to die."

- Walker von Karin 'Before the Senate'
From the book Sigil of the Wolf by Christopher Lydon

I have a new favorite quote from Deadly Decisions by Kathy Reichs:

Charbonneau: "You were unarmed."
Temperance Brennan: "I was armed with righteous fury."
Charbonneau: "Rarely wins against a semiautomatic."

I'm putting these all together because they're all from the same book.

There was a girl, and her uncle sold her, wrote Mr. Ibis in his perfect copperplate handwriting.
That is the tale; the rest is detail.

"This is the only country in the world," said Wednesday, into the stillness, "that worries about what it is."
"What?"
"The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are."

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Would you believe that all the gods that people have ever imagined are still with us today? ... And that there are new gods out there, gods of computers and telephones and whatever, and that they all seem to think there isn't room for them both in the world. And that some kind of war is kind of likely.

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore, it knows it's not fooling a soul."

“Which path should I take?” he asked. “Which one is safe?”
“Take one, and you cannot take the other,” she said. “But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk — the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?”
“Truths,” he said. “I’ve come too far for more lies.”
She looked sad. “There will be a price, then,” she said.

(also from the same book but the post was getting kind of long and I didn't want to stretch the page.)

"It’s not easy to believe.”

“I,” she told him, “can believe anything. You have no idea what I can believe.”

“Really?”

“I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen — I believe that people are perfectible, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkledy lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone’s ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste. I believe that antibacterial soap is destroying our resistance to dirt and disease so that one day we’ll all be wiped out by the common cold like the Martians in War of the Worlds. I believe that the greatest poets of the last century were Edith Sitwell and Don Marquis, that jade is dried dragon sperm, and that thousands of years ago in a former life I was a one-armed Siberian shaman. I believe that mankind’s destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it’s aerodynamically impossible for a bumblebee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there’s a cat in a box somewhere who’s alive and dead at the same time (although if they don’t ever open the box to feed it it’ll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself. I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn’t even know that I’m alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck. I believe that anyone who says that sex is overrated just hasn’t done it properly. I believe that anyone who claims to know what’s going on will lie about the little things too. I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. I believe in a woman’s right to choose, a baby’s right to live, that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.” She stopped, out of breath.

Shadow almost took his hands off the wheel to applaud. Instead he said, “Okay. So if I tell you what I’ve learned you won’t think that I’m a nut.”

“Maybe,” she said. “Try me.

"Whatever they're paying me, it isn't enough."
― Foaly, one of the Artemis Fowl books by Eoin Colfer

cant remember which one ><

"With what a sudden whiteness did it flow,
O'erpowering vision in me. But so fair,
So passing lovely, Beatrice show'd,
Mind cannot follow it, nor words express
Her infinite sweetness. Thence mine eyes regain'd
Power to look up; and I beheld myself,
Sole with my lady, to more lofty bliss
Translated: for the star, with warmer smile
Impurpled, well denoted our ascent."

Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy: Paradise- Canto XIV, lines 72-80

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
-Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

My favourite novel. C:

"Death, thou shalt die."

- John Donne, Holy Sonnet 6.

I love "The Raven" though more for it's musicality that the actual words. I lovely to hear.

"What, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word,
As I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee:
Have at thee, coward!"

Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet.

Bahaha, I love Tybalt XD