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Full Throttle QUOTES

Full Throttle QUOTES

1 " It’s quite common to enter a library and find yourself in conversation with the dead. The best minds of generations long gone crowd every bookshelf. They wait there to be noticed, to be addressed, and to reply in turn. In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

2 " I remember Aslan dead on the stone and the mice nibbling at the ropes that bound his corpse. I think that provided me with my foundational sense of decency. To live a decent life is to be no more than a mouse nibbling at a rope. One mouse isn’t much, but if enough of us keep chewing, we may set something free that can save us from the worst. Maybe it will even save us from ourselves. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

3 " And you're not an envoy from the lord?" "You're not an angel?" "Nope. Just a librarian." Aw, well, she said, "That's close enough for me." ~Full Throttle by Joe Hill "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

4 " I'd netted a bachelor's in English from Boston University, but it had done less for me, in strictly financial terms, than the eight-week course that earned me a commercial driver's license. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

5 " If you Google “How do I write a book?” you’ll get a million hits, but here’s the dirty secret: It’s just math. It’s not even hard math—it’s first-grade addition. Write three pages a day, every day. In a hundred days, you’ll have three hundred pages. Type “The End.” Done. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

6 " The child outliving the parents is the only happy story us human beings get. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

7 " The price of being alive is that someday you aren’t. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

8 " For me, a lifelong bookworm, there was nothing quite so awful as the thought of dying fifty pages from the end of a good novel. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

9 " The best works of art have a tendency to fall through time differently than human beings. They remember, but they also anticipate. A good piece can mean different things to different people at different times, and all of those meanings are true, even if they contradict one another. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

10 " Some work is about lying down for others, I suppose,” he says, and she realizes he is leaping up the last flight of stairs to a wide black glass landing and another set of bronze doors. “And some work is about lifting people up. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

11 " The past is always close, so close you can sing along with it, anytime you like. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

12 " They led me into things that I regretted in the moment but were later a pleasure to remember. Real sin, I think, produces the same emotions, in the exact opposite order. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

13 " Right,” said the wolf. He said it “Ro-ight,” had a bit of a Liverpoolian accent. Liverpudlian, Saunders corrected himself mentally, randomly. No, Scouse. They called it Scouse, which sounded like a disease, something you might die from after being bitten by a wild animal. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

14 " Christian had settled in one of the camp chairs with his drawing pad but leaped up to study a cobweb in a high shadowed corner. The spider had spun a few words into the web: FREE BED FOR FLYS "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

15 " In the library the dead meet the living on collegial terms as a matter of course, every day. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

16 " Did he finish reading The Hunger Games before his heart gave out? I hoped so. For me, a lifelong bookworm, there was nothing quite so awful as the thought of dying fifty pages from the end of a good novel. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

17 " I’m surprised you could get in,” says the big man. “They’ve got to draft a certain number of unqualified inner-city kids to meet their quota. That means a lot less space for people like you.” “People like what?” Fidelman asks, enunciating slowly and deliberately. People. Like. What? Nearly fifty years of being gay has taught Fidelman that it is a mistake to let certain statements pass unchallenged. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

18 " Miriam sang, “Gail, Gail, she bosses everyone around. Gail, Gail, she is really stupid.” The melody was just as good as the lyrics. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

19 " Come on now, Mr. Gallagher. We turned the sound off for you. The bad woman can’t hurt you. We’ll keep you safe from all her reason and science and compassion.” “Just keep your back turned,” Loren Hayes added. “If you look at her, there’s the very real possibility you might catch a glimpse of empathy and it’ll give you a sour tummy. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle

20 " There was a great pirate ship that swung back and forth like a pendulum, sailing high out over the sides of the pier and the ocean beyond, while shrill screams carried into the night. I thought of that ride as the SS Fuck No. "

― Joe Hill , Full Throttle