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Trigger Warning (2015)
And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.
Fragile Things (2006)
I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (2013)
I grew up loving and respecting short stories. They seemed to me to be the purest and most perfect things people could make: not a word wasted, in the best of them.
Trigger Warning (2015)
It was cold, in a way that Shadow was starting to become familiar with: colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it was a British building secret.
Fragile Things (2006)
Billy lowered his head and ran, headlong, at the unicorn, as if he were about to butt it with his forehead. The unicorn lowered its head also, and Billy the Innkeeper met his unfortunate end.
Stardust (1998)
He was demonstrating to the world the writing was a craft, that it was not an act of magic.
Trigger Warning (2015)
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
Coraline (2002)
The world doesn't have to be like this. Things can be different.
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013)
I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It’s as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.
Fragile Things (2006)
Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, & I know where the nuts are.
He was kind, and gentle, with that midwestern niceness that’s a positive thing rather than an absence of character.
Trigger Warning (2015)
"Her words are always with us. Some of them are written on my soul. I miss her as a glorious funny prickly person, & I miss her as the deepest and smartest of the writers, too."
about Ursula Le Guin (2018)
“You are wrong. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one only, and that way is treacherous and hard, and if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.”
Trigger Warning (2015)
I'm not sure it's entirely a good thing... I've always loved the gutter.
"Listen," croaked Skuzz. "Got something important to tell you. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse … they're right bastards, all four of them."
Doctor Who has never pretended to be hard science fiction ... At best Doctor Who is a fairytale, with fairytale logic about this wonderful man in this big blue box who at the beginning of every story lands somewhere where there is a problem.
Cabell's far and away my favourite forgotten American writer — he wrote about 25 books, most of them very different from each other. The only ones to have remained more or less in print over the last forty years are the fantasies Figures of Earth, Jurgen and The Silver Stallion.
Destruction did not cease with my abandonment of my realm, no more than people would cease to dream should you abandon yours.
My grandpa sells condoms to sailors
He punctures the tips with a pin
My grandma does back-street abortions
My God how the money rolls in.
Fragile Things (2006)