
“But if the artist grows too successful, the gears start grinding in reverse; people begin to see absolutely everything the artist says or does as a kind of public art that’s open to interpretation”
“Since anything could be art, the question arose why everything wasn’t art: What made the difference between what was and what was not?”
“That Allie’s pretty nice when she wants to be, ain’t she?”
“Jason?”
“He came out of the stable last night.”
“He never treated them like ordinary children.”
“Don’t stay up too late.”
The next day I was increasingly apprehensive about the police, for a patient brought rumors of a suspected fight and death.
The airflight between the grounds for U.S. Robots and the Robertson estate had been the tricky part.
keep it simple - developing your story
“we slog back to the train in silence.”
does that mean it’ll be bad? goddamn you hunger games.
“really Holmes, this exceeds anything which I could imagine!”
She’s sent to the principal for the first time - for passing notes in class - and is disciplined by having to sit in the hallway.
That’s a really shitty fucking sex life, yo.
“Many people who know they are dying from a malignancy and what that entails, still choose, rightly, not to act.”
Unless you count the sentence that that last half was actually the first thing on the page in which case it would be
“No one can create, teach, or produce this feeling in an individual.”
City of Glass…
“There was a distinctly Asian feel to the decorations: a shoji screen stood on the first-floor landing, and there were lacquer-flowered tall Chinese vases on the windowsills.”
Pfft. Context. Who needs it?
(I have a stack beside me, on top:)
The fellowship of the ring
‘I don’t know what’s come over you, Gandalf,’ he said.
what even?
The Hobbit
“Now they had bread and cheese, and plenty of ale, and bacon to toast in the embers of the fire.”
…What.
“Damn these computers are slow!”
O_o
“The door to the room burst open, and a tall, distinguished-looking man strode into the room.” Sounds promising.
Lmao @ the notes on this
“was only ten, a skinny girl on a stolen horse with a dark forest ahead of her and men behind her who would gladly cut...
“For a few moments, Peeta and I take in the scene of our mentor trying to rise out of the slippery vile stuff from his...
“Stir before serving.” hmmmmm…
….horror stories about parochial schools
“You have the key, Senor?” he asked, except in that British public school accent it came out sounding like what you...
Chocolate Bread Pudding…
“Now, if I were to hear anybody speak slightly of you, I should fire up in a moment: but that is not at all likely, for...
“She held him closer round...neck, and rocked him...her...
“Then he really let one go at me, and...knew I was on the goddam floor again” Catcher in...
THIS EXPLAINS A LOT: ”The acid fermentation of vinegar, although it may be incomplete, is arrested when the vinegar is...
“Fifty percent chance...Annotated Wondermark...David Malki !...
“Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?” This…...
once we have a model, we can determine its reliability by testing how well other experimental values satisfy the model”...
“Estimate the sum or difference by rounding each number to the nearest hundred.” …ooooooooooooook
“Then, after breakfast, Maia started lessons with...twins.” Lol okay then ;p
Moo Goo Gai Pan. …this is probably more accurate than it should be.
“‘I’m really sorry,’ Hanna repeated. ‘But I made these plans before I knew about your Twelve Days of Christmas thing.’”...
“It soothed her to do so, and passed the time.”
“Daddy told me to pull up on the reins while he gave a listen.” ~Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“When in addition, I see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter becomes even more simple.” -The...
” ‘That might have happened anyway.’ “ - Blood Price by Tanya Huff
“Sweet Lurlina,” said Brrr, ‘I’m slaying them right and left with my conversational wit.” - A Lion Among Men by Gregory...
” Which he, most sweetly, kissed in the receipt, and might no doubt return it, with the letter, and point the place...
He paused beside a pillar, before the tomb of a long dead Stark. “I loved that old man.”
“Wherever I was, I wasn’t underground anymore.” ..Alright.
“Before I left town, we decided to speak on the phone at least twice a day.” Well thats depressing
“But Gerald could never attain elegance.” …what.
I had to get up and walk to the nearest book. The first sentence that actually starts on pg 45: “His head and beard...
so…there is no book near me. figures…
“The fire’s not lighting, huh?” Well, that’s what I get for keeping my Calvin and Hobbes close.
“And suppose those people in the next room, asleep, are not my mother and father at all.” well then
“Lee waited for him to leave, out of earshot” …I don’t even want to know.
“Tommen, we picked the wrong foe for you”, the king told his brother. “The straw knight jousts better than that one.” -...