25 quotes
That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Those who live forever, who have no stake in the dance of death’s inevitable approach, can never understand the sanctity of life.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
The best kinds of practical jokes are those that backfire on whoever’s playing the trick.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Creeps don’t need reasons for what they do; that’s why they’re creeps.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
The only opinions they have are those that they’ve gotten from people on the TV. They think they’re informed, but all they’re doing is repeating the views of talk show hosts and news commentators.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
I find that a lot of people have this thing about making crap romantic, the way they like to blur outlaws and heroes, the good with the bad.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
There are three kinds of kids: the ones that are the odd birds, the ones that pissed on them, and the ones that watched it happen.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
“Don’t you ever watch TV?”
Jilly shook her head. “What? And let the aliens monitor my brain waves?”
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Look, I’m sorry if I don’t measure up to how people want me to be, but this is just the way I am.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
It was the old story, he realized. Everything, everybody wanted to lay claim to a piece of your soul. And if they couldn’t have it, they made you pay for it in guilt.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn’t reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Do you know what fear stands for? Fuck Everything And Run.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
I know that feeling all too well, but I broke the only pair of rose-colored glasses I had the chance to own a long time ago.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
They’d met three years ago at a record launch party when Hilary had made a pass at her. Once they got past the fact that Zoe preferred men and wasn’t planning on changing that preference, they discovered that they had far too much in common not to be good friends.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
In one form or another, it was one of the first implements created by ancient people to give voice to the mysteries that words cannot encompass, but that they had a need to express; only the drum was older.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
But music has its own enchantment and the first few notes of an old tune are all that it requires to transform any site into a place of magic, even if that location is no more than a windowless office cubicle in the old Firehall’s basement.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
It’s the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that’s more important than the actual answer. It’s good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there’s more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)
Blasting out of the stores speakers was the new Beastie Boys album. It sounded like a cross between heavy metal and bad rap and was about as appealing as being hit by a car. You couldn’t deny its energy, though.
Dreams Underfoot (1993)