Tuesday, July 7, 2009

A deathwhite mist...

"A deathwhite mist slept over sand and sea:
Whereof the chill, to him who breathed it, drew
Down with his blood, till all his heart was cold
With formless fear; and even on Arthur fell
Confusion, since he saw not whom he fought.
For friend and foe were shadows in the mist,
And friend slew friend not knowing whom he slew;"

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The Passing of Arthur"

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

... And Then...

"... And then Buffy staked Edward. The End."
~Piece of Flair, Off of a good friend's Facebook page.

References both Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Twilight. Vampire quote in general.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Well...

"Well, he did not go gentle into that good night."

~Bob, The Dresden Files

That the very atoms...

"That the very atoms that comprise life on Earth are traceable to the cosmic crucibles that are the center of stars halfway across the galaxy, that were manufactured in those crucibles, in stars that had high enough mass that they went unstable in their later years and exploded scattering their rich guts across the galaxy. These are the elements that comprise life as we know it. So that not only are we in this universe, the universe is in us. And we're not just poetically so, we are literally stardust."

~Neil deGrasse Tyson

Nice guy...

Castle: Nice guy. I can see how it wouldn't work though.
Beckett: Really?
Castle: Yeah. Handsome. Square-jawwed. By-the-book.
Beckett: And that's a bad thing?
Castle: He's like the male you. Yin needs yang, not another yin. Yin-Yang is harmony. Ying-Ying is... a name for a panda.

~Castle, "Little Lost Girl"

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Once I am sure...

"Once I am sure there's nothing going on
I step inside, letting the door thud shut.
Another church: matting, seats, and stones,
And little books; sprawlings of flowers, cut
For Sunday, brownish now:"

~Philip Larkin, "Church Going"

But superstition...

"But superstition, like belief, must die
And what remains when disbelief has gone?
Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky"

~Philip Larkin, "Church Going"