Lipmans Portland Quotes

#1. We belong to each other now, the beast declares as it grabs my limp body and takes me up into the darkness.

Frankie Ash

#2. He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'
'What you got on it?' the girl said.
'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'
'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

Flannery O'Connor

#3. In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy ... anything that keeps people stupid is a felony.

Harlan Ellison

#4. What do you think of all
this, darlin'? Will you be my soul mate?

Ann Macela

#5. One thing I'd learned from all the burying I'd attended was that sometimes it's hard to pay attention. Burying someone you know will set your mind down some distant trail, as the one you're really on is too painful to view.
at the burial of Ernest, Sarah's brother
p177

Nancy E. Turner

#6. For herself, she wanted sleet and ice, howling winds, thunder to shake the very stones of the Red Keep. She wanted a storm to match her rage.

George R R Martin

#7. This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Northrop Frye