Top 33 C.E. Murphy Quotes
#1. It's an impossible castle in an enchanted snowstorm in a haunted forest," I said in a voice slightly more shrill than I had hoped for. "Naturally there are invisible servants to care for the horses." "Naturally." Father sounded as rattled as I, which made me feel a little better.
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#2. Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.
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#3. At least if I
was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.
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#4. In the past, my brain babbling at such length had meant there was something it either didn't want to think about
which things numbered in the dozens right now
or it was working out some extreme cleverness that would at any moment leap out and surprise me. Much to my dismay, nothing leapt out.
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#5. Being herself was extraordinary enough,
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#6. Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
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#7. It took Coyote a very long time indeed to show up, or that he looked distracted when he did. How a dog could look distracted, I didn't know, but there you had it.
"I'm not," he said for the umpteenth time, "a dog.
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#8. One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall
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#9. All thinking things fear. Sentience, perhaps, is facing that fear and conquering it rather than succumbing. A tiger will drown in a tar pit, but a man who can clear his thoughts may survive.
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#10. I can tell the difference between a Corvette and a Mustang. It was the woman sitting on the hood that got me flustered.
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#11. I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!
Joanne
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#12. You fought demons?" Jane said incredulously, "And I thought my life was weird."
"You turn into a giant panther. Your life is weird.
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#13. I updrive a Bronco."
"How environmentally irresponsible of you.
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#15. Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.
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#16. He can't keep this up forever, Joanne. Stop fucking around. Did other people have little voices in their heads that said things like that?
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#17. Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.
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#18. I swear on Annie's grave," Gary repeated to Mel, "this ain't my fault. They were like this when I picked 'em up at the station.
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#19. They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it.
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#20. What do you suppose we would do," I said conversationally, "if we ever had sex? I mean, what would we call each other? Captain and Walker? Morrison and Detective? Or would we just find excuses to not call each other anything?
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#21. I could kidnap your mother," he offered. "If you need the phone records explained.
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#22. I told myself that, too. It turned out myself was a skeptical bitch and didn't believe me.
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#23. Friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps
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#24. If you're going to get technical, you're going to lose all your friends.
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#26. She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.
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#27. Cute. Who is she?" "The devil." "Really. I thought the devil would be taller.
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#28. Imagined slights could be more poisonous than real ones.
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#29. You seriously think you got some kind of god after you?" Gary asked. Marie nodded. Gary turned to me. "I vote we drop her off at a loony bin and run for the hills."
"Are you asking me to run away with you, Gary? After such a short, violent courtship?
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#30. It wasn't that I didn't feel like sharing. Mostly I just figured they couldn't do anything about it, so there was no point in worrying them. I said, 'A wee little bit,' instead, in honor of being in Ireland, where one adjective was never enough if three would do.
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#31. By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication that before landing I might want to have all my worldly and spiritual affairs in order.
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#32. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered mind.
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#33. He rallied a little. "Who are you? What do you know about this? Disease control is our job, not yours. Who are you?"
"My name," I said, mostly uner my breath, "is Siobhan Grainne MacNamarra Walkingstick, and I'm the answer to all your prayers.
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