... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.
Joe HillStichwörter: imagination
If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the county and I'd be the most ruthless pimp you ever met. Whap the girls on the butts and send them off to their tricks as fast and often as I can.
Joe HillStichwörter: books library librarian
It was no good being a mother. She wanted to start a website, a public-awareness campaign, a newsletter, to get the word out that if you were a woman and you had a child, you lost everything, you would be held hostage by love: a terrorist who would only be satisfied when you surrendered your entire future.
Joe HillThe difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.
Joe HillStichwörter: childhood
The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.
Joe HillStichwörter: redheads
I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.
Joe HillFinish the book. Finish the book, regardless of how bad it is. You can make it better in a rewrite.
Joe HillStichwörter: inspirational
When you were a Goth, it was important to at least imply the possibility you might burst into flames in direct sunlight.
Joe HillThe last man she'd dated said something to her, shortly before they broke up: 'I don't know, maybe I'm boring, but I never really feel like you're there when we're out to dinner. You live in your head. I can't. No room for me in there. I don't know, maybe you'd be more interested in me if I were a book.'
She had hated him at the time, and hated herself a little, but later, looking back, Hutter had decided that even if that particular boyfriend had been a book, he would've been one from the Business
You had to know when it made sense to try to untangle something and when to just cut the motherfucker loose.
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