The Carnivorous Flamingo

My corner of the bookternet. Mostly literary quotes for my own reference.

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Revolution tastes oddly... sweet.

- Iron Flame, Rebecca Yarros

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It will pass. You've been told this—that the grief will ease. You aren't sure how that can be true, when [he] will never stop being gone and the world will never be any less empty of him.

- The Wolf and His King, Finn Longman

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He isn't a knight.

- The Wolf and His King, Finn Longman

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...the category of books about teenagers with problems—drugs, or abusive parents, or boyfriends who push for sex, or living in Ireland. I hate books like that. For one thing they're all so relentlessly downbeat, and despite that you just know everyone will overcome all their problems in the end and start to Grow Up and Understand How the World Works. You can practically see the capitals.

Among Others, Jo Walton

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I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

Among Others, Jo Walton

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I don't know what I think about Jesus, but I know what I think about Aslan.

Jo Walton, Among Others

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Things need to be worth doing for themselves, not just for practice for some future time.

Jo Walton, Among Others

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"There is this dream, in America. ...that if you worked, and if you cared, and if you believed in yourself, you could do anything."

- Death, The End of the Day

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"(sometimes people don't see other people the way they see themselves)"

- The End of the Day, Clarie North

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"... when the British public voted to name a research vessel Boaty McBoatface, the government said no. But when we voted to commit cultural and economic seppuku, the powers-that-be didn't seem to have a fucking clue..."

- The End of the Day, Claire North

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...there's a listening issue with the human race, who have never understood when such things [visits from the Harbinger of Death] are fair warning and when they're merely courtesy before the storm.

- The End of the Day, Claire North

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It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Among Others, Jo Walton

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"You must choose the life you live at the time you live it"

- The Harbinger of Famine, The End of the Day

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At the end, he sat in the hotel room and counted out the pills.

- The End of the Day, Claire North

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This book has really been rattling around in my brain for a while now huh

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What a waste it was, what a terrible waste, to take a person who dreamed cities and gardens and enormous shining skies and teach him that the only answer to an unanswerable suffering was slaughter.

- Some Desperate Glory, Emily Tesh

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"The very best space fascist girl scout of them all."

- Cleo (about Kyr), Some Desperate Glory