Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
heart vampire dinner
Chapter 8, Dinner With the Vampire: Is there something wrong with your food?" No, I'm just not very hungry." You're going to break my heart, aren't you?
mom together tables
I could stand on my head and flick the bean right there at the dinner table and my mom would be all, "Honey, Christmas is family time, we should be together" and make me finish in front of everyone.
suicide country art
The Winter Woman is as wild as a blizzard, as fresh as new snow. While some see her as cold, she has a fiery heart under that ice-queen exterior. She likes the stark simplicity of Japanese art and the daring complexity of Russian literature. She prefers sharp to flowing lines, brooding to pouting, and rock and roll to country and western. Her drink is vodka, her car is German, her analgesic is Advil. The Winter Woman likes her men weak and her coffee strong. She is prone to anemia, hysteria, and suicide.
differences people drunk
Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place where you don't. Suffering is over-rated, don't pursue it. Ask for help when you need it, don't when you don't, and learn to recognize the difference. Don't confuse movement and progress. Be kind. Be forgiving. Pay attention.
daughter said charlie
So I am death" Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. "This is death toast sweety.
doctors waiting-rooms boring
The netherworld is timeless and unchanging, and boring -- much like a doctor's waiting room.
cheese crackers wanted
He wanted her to experience all the glorious cheese of life.
real grief sorrow
There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.
teacher children school
As a teacher of fourth-graders in a public school, where corporal punishement was not allowed, she had years of violence stored up and was, truth be told, sort of enjoying letting it out on Kona, who she felt could have been the poster child for the failure of public education.
time-travel knows
It's like time travel only, you know, slower...
jesus what-if important
... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?
thinking vampire agree
Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.
law vampire cop
Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.
gains empty eternity
The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.