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21 " Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets. "
― Andrew Davidson , The Gargoyle
22 " She had what I'd call a lemming ass - that is, an ass that you would follow right over the edge of the cliff. "
23 " ... but the truth is that I dislike most men as much as I dislike women. If anything, I am an equal opportunity misanthropist. "
24 " The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God. "
25 " The morphine dripped and the snake inhabited every inch of my spine, continuing to flick at the base of my skull with her wicked tongue. Lick and kiss, drip drip drip dropped the drugs, hiss hiss hiss spoke the snake. The sibilant sermons of the snake as she discoursed upon the disposition of my sinner's soul seemed ceaseless. "
26 " Kako se usuđuješ pomisliti da poznaješ moje srce kad ne razumiješ ni vlastito? "
27 " You are mine,I am yours; you may be sure of this. You've been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay. "
28 " You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent "
29 " I once knew a woman who liked to imagine Love in the guise of a sturdy dog, one that would always chase down the stick after it was thrown and return with his ears flopping around happily. Completely loyal, completely unconditional. And I laughed at her, because even I knew that love is not like that. Love is a delicate thing that needs to be cosseted and protected. Love is not robust and love is not unyeilding. Love can crumble under a few harsh words, or be tossed away with a handful of careless actions. Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. "
30 " I understand that some people find God after misfortune, although this seems to me even more ridiculous than finding Him in good times. 'God smote me. He must love me.' It's like not wanting a romantic relationship until a member of the opposite sex punches you in the face. My 'miraculous survival' will not change my opinion that Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short, and paradoxically, far too long. "
31 " I spent my entire life waiting for you, Marianne, and I didn't even know it until you arrived. Being burned was the best thing that ever happened to me because it brought you. I wanted to die but you filled me with so much love that it overflowed and I couldn't help but love you back. It happened before I even knew it and now I can't imagine not loving you. You have said that it takes so much for me to believe anything, but I do believe. I believe in your love for me. I believe in my love for you. I believe that every remaining beat of my heart belongs to you, and I believe that when I finally leave this world, my last breath will carry your name. I believe that my final word--Marianne--will be all I need to know that my life was good and full and worthy, and I believe that our love will last forever. "
32 " Didn't anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune? "
33 " It doesn't matter how fast you move, if you never go anywhere. "
34 " All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them. "
35 " Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide. "
36 " There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in God than I can believe an invisible monkey lives in my ass; however, I would believe in both if they could be scientifically proven. "
37 " My first, and most lasting, addiction has always been to the obsessive study of any matter that took hold of my curiosity. "
38 " That which is painful sharpens one's love. "
39 " Love isn't a steadfast dog at all; love is more like a pygmy mouse lemur. Yes, that's exactly what love is: a tiny, jittery primate with eyes that are permanently peeled open in fear. For those of you who cannot quite picture a pygmy mouse lemur, imagine a miniature Don Knotts or Steve Buscemi wearing a fur coat. "
40 " When I answered that I did not pray, he sternly rebuked me. "You're in Hell. You'd better start". "