He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
– Douglas Adams
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/20176-he-attacked-everything-in-life-with-a-mix-of-extraordinary
I threaded my way through the gravestones with Nicky still holding my hand. In a way it wasn’t just him that had been rolled, because it felt very good to touch him. It had that familiar feel to it, his hand in mine, like an old lover that you’d just found again. It was a lie, but the ardeur could make lies seem like truth. It was part of the gift, or part of the curse, depending on how you wanted to look at it. If it got us all out alive, I’d call it a gift, at least until I had to take Nicky home with me, and then I was going to have some explaining to do. He followed me home, can I keep him? had never worked for puppies when I was a child, and it seemed totally inadequate for a whole human being.
– Laurell K. Hamilton, from Flirt, #18 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo – that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.
– Joyce Carol Oates
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/286727-and-this-is-the-forbidden-truth-the-unspeakable-taboo–
One must do violence to the object of one’s desire;
when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
– Marquis De Sade
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/417776-one-must-do-violence-to-the-object-of-one-s-desire
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
– Mae West
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/300527-i-never-said-it-would-be-easy-i-only-said
Yes, I have been there and done that. All of that. And recovered! How about you?
I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I’m going to tell it – but take care not to smile at any part of it.
– Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/72014-i-have-dreamt-in-my-life-dreams-that-have-stayed