Quotes About Lurkers

#1. I slammed the door in her face and applied my bloody shoe to the lurkers in the bathtub,

Deanna Raybourn

#2. You see why I'm such a good vampire? We're all lying, devious bastards, not like werewolves, if there are werewolves, whose MO is, "Hi, I'm a werewolf, surprise! And fuck you!" No, we lurk. We're lurkers.

Christopher Buehlman

#3. A wise man should never resolve upon anything, at least, never let the world know his resolution, for if he cannot reach that he is ashamed.

John Selden

#4. Calm down, I ordered myself. You're no good like this. Get a grip.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. After another moment's silence she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.

Albert Camus

#6. Also I've got a dozen pencils, all sharpened and laid out in a row. They're brand-new. I just bought them at the stationery store - especially for writing to you (not that I'm trying to make you feel grateful or anything: just-sharpened, brand-new pencils are really nice, don't you think?).

Haruki Murakami

#7. With something like Chernobyl, the public reaction was 'Oh, my God, science has really done wrong.'

George Smoot

#8. I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

Donna Leon

#9. He, who had once been whole, was halved, without hope of ever being complete again. And when you've known that kind of love, to endure the creeping passage of time without it is to live a half-life where nothing ever feels real.

Karen Marie Moning

#10. Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. Mrs. Bob Johnson, the wife of the New York Life Insurance agent, is an excellent cook,

Truman Capote

#12. And for Peter ... well, sometimes cruelty is kindness in disguise. Sometimes pain is the best teacher. Sometimes it does you no harm to realize that there's a limit to what you can get away with.

Mike Carey