Derp Quote by Medic

“We live without feeling the country beneath our feet, our words are inaudible from ten steps away. Any conversation, however brief, gravitates, gratingly, toward…

— Osip Mandelstam

“here he dug in his pockets and produced a thimble, a root, two empty tin cans, three Indian arrowheads, an apple peeler, a dried-up…

— James McBride

“That sand into which we bury ourselves in order not to see, is formed of words…and it is true that words, their labyrinths, the…

— Georges Bataille

“Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal…

— Mary Shelley

“We passed a street minstrel who was singing in one of the more obscure Eastern languages, and I dropped a few orbs into his…

— Steven Brust

“Since moving to Valhalla, I'd learned an impressive number of Old Norse cusswords. Meinfretr translated as something like stinkfart, which was, naturally, the worse…

— Rick Riordan

“What a strange creature man is! He does not believe in God, but he does believe that if the bridge of is nose itches…

— Nikolai Gogol

“We ran hunched along a subterranean corridor, discarded animal bones underfoot, the ceiling brushing our heads, past things I tried not to see—a slumped…

— Ransom Riggs

“This is all about ingesting lives, not simply spewing out fragments. There just isn't enough time. Find the language within your head, and don't…

— Mynah K

“Behold, the Cavern of Ages,” Lord Aeratas pronounced, reverently. “Depository of our ancestors’ enneagrams, held within the living stone for all eternity.” “It smells…

— Terry Mancour

“An older, inebriated Scot who looked like he'd been sitting on his barstool all day looked me up and down, then smelled the air.…

— Steve Alten

“His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue…

— David B. Dacosta