Showing posts with label Quotations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quotations. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 October 2011

An insight into the (dis)order of my mind, courtesy of Kate Atkinson

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"Right up until the end Victor's mind had been as methodical as an efficient library, whereas Amelia felt that hers was more like the cupboard under the stair where ancient hockey sticks were shoved in beside broken hoovers and boxes of old Christmas decorations, and the one thing you knew was in there - a 5-amp fuse, a tin of shoe polish, a Philips screwdriver - would almost certainly be the one thing you couldn't lay your hands on."  - Kate Atkinson, "Case Histories"
Yep, I recognise that feeling.

Sunday, 2 January 2011

A grim thought for the New Year from Stephen T. Asma

"Monsters are symbols of the disgusting, with their decaying flesh, mottled limbs, and rotting, putrefying tissues and organs. In short, monsters are thumbnails sketches of our own destiny. It is our human fate to slowly fall apart and to cause revulsion in younger, healthier witnesses."

Happy New Year everyone!