“Is that cat dead? Diana demanded.
''No he isn't,'' Emma cooed and kissed his furry face. Church went limper. ''He just hates affection”
Source: Queen of Air and Darkness
“Not belonging is the greatest gift. Always remember that.”
Source: Waterfall
“I cannot recall having believed, even as a child, that the purpose of reading fiction was to learn about the place commonly called the real world. I seem to have sensed from the first that to read fiction was to make available for myself a new kind of space. In that space, a version of myself was free to move among places and personages the distinguishing features of which were the feelings they caused to arise in me rather than their seeming appearance, much less their possible resemblance to places or persons in the world where I sat reading.”
“Obwohl wir alles hatten, alles was wir brauchten, um
glücklich zu sein – trotzdem sahen wir gern in den Himmel, in die unendliche Weite der Nacht. Und fragten uns, was da draußen noch auf uns wartete. Was das Leben wohl für uns bereithielt.”
Source: Seelenfall
“Die Sonne war bereits vor einiger Zeit hinter der Gebirgskette untergegangen, und rund um die Bergspitzen leuchtete ein goldener Kranz, als hätte jemand hinter ihnen eine Taschenlampe eingeschaltet.
Jean folgte dem Farbverlauf des Himmels von seinem anfänglichen Lila über ein tiefes Königsblau bis zu dem beginnenden Schwarz direkt über ihnen. Unzählige Sterne glitzerten über ihren Köpfen, als hätte jemand eine Handvoll winziger Diamantsplitter in die Höhe geworfen.”
Source: Heimwärts Voraus: Die Geschichte einer unerwarteten Reise
“Those eyes, hidden deep in that hooded cloak, could penetrate subterfuge and dissimulation as easily as X-rays penetrated flesh and illuminated the bones for all to see.”
Source: Star Wars: Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter
“I-Five had both hands up, the index fingers extended, like a child pretending to point a pair of blasters.”
Source: Star Wars: Darth Maul - Shadow Hunter
“We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.”
Source: A Fraction of the Whole
“But there are other serious issues that concern me; namely, workers rights, safety regulations, and a big lament of mine, child labor issues.”
Source: A Blazing Gilded Age
“A primary function of police for 150 years has been to surveil, infiltrate, and crush progressive social movements seeking to reduce inequality. It's why police spied on, infiltrated, brutally repressed, and continue to crush labor, feminist, civil rights, anti-war, LGBTQ, environmental, reproductive rights, indigenous, and economic social justice movements.”
Source: Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News