The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it’s as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.


Terry Pratchett,

Moving Pictures

Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said “Life goes on.” What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn’t. It’s death

Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said ‘Life goes on.’ What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn’t. It’s death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There’s no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it.


Mary Ann Shaffer

It doesn’t have any effect on your life. What do you care ! People try to talk about it like it’s a social issue. Like when you see someone

It doesn’t have any effect on your life. What do you care ! People try to talk about it like it’s a social issue. Like when you see someone stand up on a talk show and say, ‘How am I supposed to explain to my children that two men are getting married … I dunno. It’s your shitty kid. You fuckin’ tell ’em. Why is that anyone else’s problem Two guys are in LOVE and they can’t get married because you don’t want to talk to your ugly child for five fuckin’ minutes


Louis C.K.

It’s a sweet setup, I’ll admit. For all that the maids STILL show up each day with jumbo crucifixes, jumpy movements, and red eyes from crying

It’s a sweet setup, I’ll admit. For all that the maids STILL show up each day with jumbo crucifixes, jumpy movements, and red eyes from crying over the short straw that drew them vampire duty.’ Yesterday, she’d just stopped herself from raising her clenched hands above her head and chasing one of them around the room groaning, ‘I vant to suck your blood.


Kresley Cole,

A Hunger Like No Other

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static,

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.


Chuck Palahniuk,

Fight Club

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing they are not all bad.

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.


Stephen Fry,

Moab Is My Washpot