Q - A quote that inspires me.
I left this in my inbox for a very long time because I was trying to think of an answer.
I remember learning the word “loquacious” from one of the Star Wars novelizations. I remember learning the word “diaphanous” and “albatross” and more from The Night Room.
I remember the chapter title “Billy Rifkin is a Dickhead” from 10 Things to Do Before I Die because my little brother let my mother see it and I got in trouble. I remember the line, “I haven’t had this much fun since I made love to my week-dead sister,” in Another Fine Myth for exactly the same reason (I don’t loan him books anymore).
I remember the line “The sound you hear in the distance is the heads of moral conservatives exploding in the distance,“ from Trick of the Light because it made me laugh endlessly. I remember, vividly, Bobby Pendragon commenting on the fact that he has a six-pack for the first time in Black Water because he’d lost so much weight due to starvation and being horrified.
I remember the line, "Though you thrust the knife at my eyes, I will not flinch,” from Luck in the Shadows, because I had never seen unswerving faith summed up that way before.
I remember “It hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t,” from Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, because honestly, what?
But inspired? I honestly don’t know. I know I’ve felt inspired by fiction, but I cannot pick out a single individual quote from anything that inspires me on its own.
