Joe Hill citáty

„Je těžký chtít, aby ti fungoval vztah s někým, když nemáš dobrej vztah sám se sebou.“

„Skvělý. Takže budu oběť. Na střední totiž můžeš bejt jen sportovcem, děvkou, šprtem nebo obětí. A já budu oběť.“

„Řekl bych, že necítit nic - naprosto dokonalou prázdnotu - je někdy úplně nejlepší.“

„Bůh zachraňuje – ale ne teď a tady. Spasení se odložilo. Stejně jako všichni podvodníci i on po vás chce, abyste nejdřív platili a věřili, že se vám později dostane odplaty.“

„Nepochybuju o tvý odvaze, ale inteligenci.“

„Vím, že člověk je nadřazenej druh, jen si nevzpomínám proč.“

„Bejt mrtvej je jednoduchý a bezpečný, je to fakt bezva, měl by to zkusit každej.“

„Já je nenacházím, to oni nacházejí mě.“

„Je tu příliš mnoho duchů minulosti“

„Jest-li tebou už brzo něco neodemknu, zblázním se.“

„Přežila jsem to. Přežiju i tohle.“

„Vyser voheň a ušetříš sirky.“

„Nejhorší jsou chvíle, kdy se nic neděje.“

„Duchové nás vždycky nakonec dohoní a nedají se před nimi zamknout dveře. Projdou přímo skrz.“

„INZERÁT: Prodám nejvyšší nabídce ducha svého nevlastního otce.“

„Lepší je to nevědět, protože pak si to můžeš představovat.“

„Možná máš pravdu, možná, že tajemství jsou vždycky velká chyba.“

“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”

“There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.”

“You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.”

“Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”

“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.”

“Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.”

“She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe.”

“Because love requires context.”

“Pick a sin we can both live with, is what I ask.”

“The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.”

“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”

“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”

“Taking a thing apart is always faster than putting something together. This is true of everything except marriage.”

“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

“Horror was rooted in sympathy… in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.”

“I am; I was. I want to be.”

“The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies.”

“Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.”

“It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.”

“Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.”

“Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt.”

“What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.”

“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”

“No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of-ssso much compressed wisdom.”

“Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. innocence.”

“It's like in the Bible. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it."
"What part of the Bible is that from?" Ig asked her. "The Gospel of Keith Richards?”

“… people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”