Quotes from Joe Hill

Sabia que capitães de navio podem celebrar casamentos? O que pouca gente sabe é que bombeiros também podem outorgar divórcios.

Suck my twinkie,asshole.

Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done—cook an omelet, change lightbulbs, make with hugging—sometimes almost made being a woman fun.

Harper's face was buried in Mr. Truffle's fur and with each inhalation she smelled the last nine months of his secret cat life: must, dust, grave dirt, basements and tall grass, beach and drainpipe, Dumpster and dandelions. The

American productivity would, I believe, nearly double if everyone were free to work pantsless.

Eu ponho uma bola de gude na boca para me lembrar de ficar calado e escutar de vez em quando.

She wished she were not so aware of the vast gulf between what the men in her life thought she was worth and her actual value. She had, it seemed to her, always asked and expected too much and given too little. She seemed almost to have a perverse impulse to make anyone who cared about her regret it, to find the thing that would most appall those people and then do that until they had to run away as a matter of self-preservation.

How's that? Do I look like Errol Flynn?" "You are a dashing motherfucker," she told him. She

Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury

These days, I'm not sure it's ever a good idea to leave anything important for tomorrow.

A Escama do Dragão é igual a qualquer outra coisa que produz fogo, enfermeira Grayson. Pode-se usá-la para incendiar um lugar… ou para iluminar o caminho rumo a algo melhor.

The best time to see her is when the place is almost full.

There were little triangles of coconut custard pie on a graham cracker crust for dessert, the best and sweetest thing...

At the end, I get to be the person I always wanted to be," she thought.

Eu acho isso a parte mais linda de todas. Tudo aquilo que você acha que te define é removido feito um embrulho de Natal. O Brilho te reduz à sua parte mais verdadeira, à sua melhor parte, à versão de você que vai mais fundo do que um nome ou do que o time de futebol para o qual você torce. E você adquire consciência de si mesmo como apenas uma folha numa árvore, e todos aqueles que você conhece e ama são as outras folhas.

the truth about music: that it was the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours, to feel something, to burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school and TV and loading the dishwasher after dinner.

Lawrence Block called Telling Lies for Fun and Profit

I understand Gil has a quote by Graham Greene on his chest," Renée said. She was studying a bit of wet snow as it slid off the tip of one boot. Her voice was calculatedly indifferent. "Something about the nature of imprisonment.

Quando nós brilhamos eles todos voltam, sabe? A luz que produzimos juntos revela tudo que já foi perdido para a escuridão.

Aja como se todo mundo dependesse de você! Porque depende mesmo!

It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But

Do you spend a lot of nights keeping the fire department in hysterics with creative acts of arson?" "Everyone needs a hobby," he said. Then

Quando cantamos juntos, cantamos por todos aqueles que nos amaram, mas que não estão aqui hoje. Cantamos à memória de cada minuto que tivemos na sua companhia.

Oh, yeah," my dad said. "Check out Such Men Are Dangerous, the novel Block wrote as Paul Kavanagh. That book is less like a novel, more like getting mugged in an alley." Such Men Are Dangerous was the story of an ex-soldier who had done ugly things in the war and come home looking to do some ugly things right here. While it has been decades since I read it, I think my dad's assessment was roughly correct.