Antoine Walczyk > Antoine's Quotes

“Cole felt something deep inside of him snap. He was done with thinking. He was done being afraid. There was no room for fear when someone’s life was at stake.”
― S.E. Stitcher, The Doomsday Butcher

“I would caution you—ambition is a deadly disease.”
― John Edgell, Seed of the Defiled

“Your upcoming trip is just around the corner. The excitement is palpable!”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

“Cary Grant or was it Errol Flynn – said – ‘A good martini is like a woman’s breast: one is too few and three are too many’.”
― Mark Ellis, Princes Gate

“So, let me get this right. You invented this groundbreaking medical technology that changes the way we literally do everything in trauma and blood, and you are out here, 30.3 light-years away from Earth, on a planet where everyone involved in the Eden project was a hundred percent sure there’d be no DNA, blood, or anything? And now here we are playing with the DNA of an alien race? What is this? What is actually going on here?”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

“After a week he was moved to a different wing and into a shared six-by-eight with a grizzled old con called Alf. He had faded tattoos that stained most of the visible skin on his hands, arms and neck a dull blue, sharp eyes and a thick beard that made his mouth look like an axe wound on a bear.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room

“Command and obedience are but unfortunate necessities of human life: society in equality is its normal state.”
― John Stuart Mill

“I have a suspicion - and hear me out, 'cause this is a rough one - I have a suspicion that the definition of "crazy" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“El amor no se piensa: se siente o no se siente. Yo soy hombre de pocas, pero muy firmes palabras. Le juro que tendrá mi amor por siempre. ¿Qué hay del suyo?”
― Laura Esquivel

“They walked him into the cane and then turned him around. He tried to stand bravely... They looked at Oscar and he looked at them and then he started to speak. The words coming out like they belonged to someone else, his Spanish good for once. He told them that what they were doing was wrong, that they were going to take a great love out of the world. Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him. He told them about Ybón and the way he loved her and how much they had risked and that they'd started to dream the same dreams and say the same words. He told them that it was only because of her love that he'd been able to do the thing that he had done, the thing they could no longer stop, told them if they killed him they would probably feel nothing and their children would probably feel nothing either, not until they were old and weak or about to be struck by a car and then they would sense him waiting for them on the other side and over there he wouldn't b no fatboy or dork or kid no girl had ever loved; over there he'd be a hero, an avenger. Because anything you can dream (he put his hand up) you can be.

They waited respectfully for him to finish and then they said, their faces slowly disappearing in the gloom, Listen, we'll let you go if you tell us what "fuego" means in English.

Fire, he blurted out, unable to help himself.

Oscar—”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it!”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

“Deine Anpassungsfäheigkeit—Your ability to adapt,” her husband said, “is far more dangerous to you than any of them will ever be. You’ll keep adapting and adapting until nothing is left.”
― Ursula Hegi, Stones from the River