C.E. Murphy Quotes

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• Nobody who loved life and new experiences that much was ever going to get old, not really. Wiser and eventually dead, maybe, but not old.
• Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and…
• Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.
• friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps
• She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.
• I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken! --Joanne
• One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall
• Why do airline pilots always call passengers "folks"? I don't usually take umbrage at generic terminology--I'm one of those forward-thinkers who believes that "man" encompasses…
• Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting the…
• They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's…
• Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
• start with one true thing
• She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem…
• To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me…

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