Asylum Tales Quotes

#1. I repeat Sturgeon's Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent of SF is crud.

Theodore Sturgeon

#2. You can't concern yourself with that. Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew who we were. But that knowledge doesn't come from the outside, but from the inside.

Cassandra Clare

#3. Abby's eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.

Madeleine Roux

#4. When there's a monster under your bed sometimes it really is best not to look.

Jocelynn Drake

#5. I don't like the way he looks at you."
My stomach lurched. "What do you mean? How does he look at me?"
"Like you're not a student and he's not a teacher.

P.C. Cast

#6. Aw, git reconciled!.. You can't git her wid no fish sandwich.

Zora Neale Hurston

#7. Ah, he thought, for one who cannot read--or think--the Image, the physical form of Love!

Willa Cather

#8. Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

Pete Hamill

#9. I think you can have your career and still bring to your family something very, very special. There are some people who are born mothers, who don't want to work and just want to stay at home, and that's fantastic, but for me it was something very difficult.

Sarah Parish