Pearlnight's Lair - /quotes

"and the universe said I love you because you are love"

Julian Gough - End Poem

“We destroy them in many ways. First, economically. They make money. It is only by hazard that a writer makes money although good books always make money eventually. Then our writers when they have made some money increase their standard of living and they are caught. They have to write to keep up their establishments, their wives, and so on, and they write slop. It is slop not on purpose but because it is hurried. Because they write when there is nothing to say or no water in the well. Because they are ambitious. Then, once they have betrayed themselves, they justify it and you get more slop. Or else they read the critics. If they believe the critics when they say they are great then they must believe them when they say they are rotten and they lose confidence. At present we have two good writers who cannot write because they have lost confidence through reading critics. If they wrote, sometimes it would be good and sometimes not so good and sometimes it would be quite bad, but the good would get out. But they have read the critics and they must write masterpieces. The masterpieces the critics said they wrote. They weren’t masterpieces, of course. They were just quite good books. So now they cannot write at all. The critics have made them impotent.

Ernest Hemmingway - Green Hills of Africa

"In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth."

Henry Beston, The Outermost House

"I love men too — not merely individuals, but every one. But I love them with the consciousness of egoism; I love them because love makes me happy, I love because loving is natural to me, because it pleases me. I know no “commandment of love.” I have a fellow-feeling with every feeling being, and their torment torments, their refreshment refreshes me too; I can kill them, not torture them."

Max Stirner - The Ego and Its Own

"I can’t see him but I can hear him chobbling and cleaning himself pmsl.
It’s like watching the film alien. When you know he’s literally right next to you waiting for him to strike"

My mom, trying to pinpoint one of our cats in a dark room.

"By a far-reaching analogy, the dead are blamed for sickness and death: death comes, in other words, from the dead, who, through jealousy, anger, or longing, seek to bring the living into their realm. And to prevent this, the living attempt to neutralize or propitiate the dead—by proper funerary and burial rites, by "killing" the corpse a second time, or by sacrifice—until the dead have become powerless. This is a condition which, worldwide, tends to correspond not just to when they stop entering one's dreams but also to when their bodies stop undergoing change and are reduced to inert bones. The bare skeleton—in our culture the very symbol of the terror of death-is in other cultures evidence that the dead body is finally safe and that the living are out of harm's way."

Paul Barber - Vampires: Burial and Death, Folklore and Reality

"I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters."

Roberta Williams

"Sometimes I think the universe just waits for me to get cocky."

Egon Spengler - The Real Ghostbusters