Joey Campagnini > Joey's Quotes

“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and the Master

“Deciding to wait, Scott sat down with a pint away from the bar at a corner table and lit a cigarette. The clientele in there on Sunday afternoon were the same as most other afternoons. From middle-aged to old men, drinking and cursing at the world like it was the last bus which had just left the stop without them.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“I heard another disembodied voice: you're going to release a daemon”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“So how did he imagine we would have known anything about them?’ Her husband asked.
Gloria smiled awkwardly. ‘They woke up this morning and have been chanting you name ever since.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Girl with the Porcelain Lips

“Fish cannot carry guns.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading.”
― Gary Paulsen, Nightjohn

“Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera.”
― Pablo Neruda

“When a woman loves you she's not satisfied until she possesses your soul. Because she's weak, she has a rage for domination, and nothing less will satisfy her.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“So I told [the doctor] about my hay fever, which used to rage just in summertime but now simmers the year round, and he listened listlessly as though it were a cock and bull story; and we sat there for a few minutes and neither of us was interested in the other's nose, but after a while he poked a little swab up mine and made a smear on a glass slide and his assistant put it under the microscope and found two cells which delighted him and electrified the whole office, the cells being characteristic of a highly allergic system. The doctor's manner changed instantly and he was full of the enthusiasm of discovery and was as proud of the two little cells as though they were his own.”
― E.B. White, One Man's Meat

“Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?”
― James Dashner, The Scorch Trials

“It does little good to regret a choice. So often people say, “If only I had known,” implying they would’ve acted differently in a given situation. It is true that desires of the moment can blind one’s sight of the future. Revenge is not as sweet as the adage claims. Yet who could pass a chance to taste it? And if the chance were allowed to slip by, would the fool regret his lack of action? ”
― K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

“The Geneva peace accords said that it recognized the nationality and fundamental rights of the Vietnamese people including their sovereignty, their territory and unity. Due to the Geneva Conference allowing the imperialist combined forces of the Franco-USA coalition, on the one hand to hold South Vietnam under the 17th parallel and allowing the National resistance by the People of Vietnam to hold the north on the other, it stopped the Vietnamese from completely liberating their country. (Vein, 2009)”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One

“When pain and talent mix together, that’s when you’re able to persevere in your goals in life; the pain gives your talent something to feed into.”
― Vernon Davis

“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker his first duty is to follow his intellect wherever it may lead. Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions if those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“-¿No tenéis acaso otra hija?
-No-dijo el hombre-, sólo tenemos una Cenicienta, pequeña e ingenua, de mi difunta esposa, pero es imposible que ella sea la novia.
El hijo del rey dijo que fueran a buscarla, pero la madre respondió:
-Ay, no, está demasiado sucia, no puede dejarse ver.
Pero él insistió en verla a toda costa y tuvieron que llamar a Cenicienta. Ella se lavó primero las manos y la cara, fue luego hasta allí y se inclinó ante el hijo del rey, que le tendió el zapato de oro. Después se sentó en un escabel, sacó el pie del pesado zueco de madera y lo metió en la chinela: le quedaba como hecha a medida. Y cuando se enderezó y el rey la miró a la cara, reconoció a la hermosa joven que había bailado con él y dijo:
-¡Ésta es la verdadera novia!
La madrastra y las dos hermanas se asustaron y empalidecieron de rabia, pero él subió a Cenicienta al caballo y se marchó de allí. Al pasar por el pequeño avellano, las dos palomitas blancas dijeron:
-Vuélvete y mira, vuélvete y mira, ya no hay sangre en la zapatilla: la zapatilla bien ya le encaja, a la novia de verdad llevas a casa.”
― Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Cuentos de los hermanos Grimm

“Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.”
― Philip Pullman, The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ