Vampire Journals Quotes & Sayings

His frustration with some Americans was like that of a disappointed parent. He was so content in this country, so impressed with and loving of its opportunities, but then why, sometimes, did Americans fall short of their best selves? — Dave Eggers

She resented a universe that forced her to fabricate cover stories for its more inexplicable vagaries. — Thomm Quackenbush

The birds of the air die to sustain thee; the beasts of the field die to nourish thee; the fishes of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are their common sepulchre. Good God! with how many deaths are our poor lives patched up! how full of death is the life of momentary man! — Francis Quarles

All the while your brain is performing up to ten quadrillion calculations per second using only ten watts of power.5 A computer would require a gigawatt of power produced by a nuclear power plant to pull off the same performance. — Mark Batterson

I transform "Work" in its analytic meaning (the Work of Mourning, the Dream-Work) into the real "Work" - of writing.)
for:
the "Work" by which (it is said) we emerge from the great crises (love, grief) cannot be liquidated hastily: for me, it is accomplished only in and by writing. — Roland Barthes

Lock yourself in here and if you hear
anything. Shoot. I don't care if you think God himself is about to waltz through that door, shoot him to
Swiss cheese--he'll survive. — Jamie Lynn Dougherty

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. — Edward Hopper

There is no reliance to be placed on appearance. — Juvenal

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth. — Marcus Aurelius

Bennett licked and sucked the skin around my hipbone. "A tattoo would look sexy right here. And I'd be the only one to see it - when I did this. — Christina Lee