UnexpectedRain’s most recent Quotables

Kids Books... Grownup books... That's just marketing. Books are books!

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Mrs Hudson took my skull

Books to the ceiling, books to the sky, my pile of books is a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Remember: when people tell you something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. “It’s all right” we whisper, “I’m here, I love you.” and we lie: “I’ll never leave you.” For just a moment or two the darkness doesn’t seem so bad.

Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

The universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest.

If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you.

A darkness carried in the heart can not be cured by moving the body from one place to another.

Always plant a lie inside a truth; makes it easier to swallow.

Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, mostly-fit-could-stand-to-lose -a-few-pounds-air?

May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve theme? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Your face just broke the language barrier.

You do not make history. You can only hope to survive it.