#evie

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#immanuel-velikovsky #jim-carter #lord-kelvin #margaret-wertheim #physics-on-the-fringe

I hate the vamp jobs. They think they're so suave. It's not enough for them to slaughter and eat you like a zombie would. No, they want to be all sexy, too. And trust me: vampires? Not. Sexy. ↗

— Kiersten White

#evie #humor #vampires #humor

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt. ↗

— Paul Fussell

#funny

Evie: "No way!" I yelled, taking it from him. Bud: "I can't believe I made a pink knife." Evie: "It's so cute! I love it. Finally, a companion worthy of Tasey. ↗

— Kiersten White

#evie #funny #pink-knife #tasey #funny

Silver knives! Painful and sometimes deadly to all paranormals!' 'Tasey!' I counterd 'Hot pink and sparkly! ↗

— Kiersten White

#evie #humor #humor

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. Groucho Marx ↗

— Timar

#literary-criticism #literary-criticism

Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name." (Discussion at Woodruff Auditorium in Lawrence, KS; October 7, 2005.) ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#literary-criticism #novels #the-davinci-code #writing #literary-criticism

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational-quotes #experience

Tasers are a one-size-fits-all paranormal butt-kicking option. Mine’s pink with rhinestones. ↗

— Kiersten White

#humor #humor

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#the-paris-review #wisecrack #wit #humor