Lullaby Quotes
"What she needs is a new cup of coffee and a seven-letter word for 'poultry.'"
"Murders, suicides, serial killers, accidental overdoses, you can't wait until this stuff is on the front page of the newspaper."
"What do you call this? Swiss Army mocha? Coffee is supposed to taste like coffee."
"Forget those dream houses you only sell once every fifty years."
"If anybody asks, tell them you're being transferred out of town. Tell them you loved this house."
"The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up."
"There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead."
"Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead."
"These people so scared of silence. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics."
"With everyone's imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world."
"This isn't what a therapist will tell you to do, but it works."
"With everything perfect, exact, meticulous, it must be three or four in the morning, because by now it's quiet."
"Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can hurt like hell."
"The ultimate product of death is invoking rebirth."
"If the practitioner's intention is strong enough, the object of the spell will fall asleep, no matter where."
"The more emotion a person has bottled up, the more powerful the spell."
"A well-balanced person, a functioning person, would have to read the song out loud to make someone fall asleep."
"Until you deal with your real personal issues, you'll never be able to control yourself."
"This doesn't work like a recipe in a cookbook. You can't dissect this with some electron microscope."
"You're still a young woman, Rhonda. You need to go back to school and turn this hurt into money."
"The only reason why I haven't killed Mona a hundred times over is because I kill someone else every day."
"The key is to kill people deliberately, so you don't accidentally kill the people you love."
"Who do you think calls me for these little jobs?"
"Humans are above animals. Animals were put on this planet to feed and serve humanity."
"Of course you'd say that, you're on the winning team."
"He's not saying he's a lawyer, he's just running an ad. Other people fill in the blanks."
"Other members of the coven do it, too, but it's Oyster's idea."
"This isn't about guilt or innocence, the dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead."
"Don't think for a second that the government's not already working on some swell infectious ways to stop overpopulation."
"I'm willing to suffer an eternity in hell for the same cause."
"The Green Menace, the ivy equivalent of killer bees. The Ivy Inferno."
"He says, I'm all for wiping the slate clean, of books and people, and starting over."
"My back arched, my every muscle bunches tight for a few long seconds."
"You want to keep the world the way it is, Dad, with just you in charge."
"Imagine if the Chicago fire of 1871 had gone on for six months before anyone noticed."
"He has black hair hanging down a wrinkled Frankenstein forehead."
"In order to save the world, Jesus Christ suffered for about thirty-six hours on the cross."
"I'm not going another mile with a wanna-be mass murderer."
"The pink silk sofa, Mona's carved Louis XIV desk, the lion-legged sofa table, it's all frosted with dust."
"I say, I'm sorry. Grabbing her wasn't right."
"That's different,» Mona says. «I was defending myself."
"Mona says, «On your way out, we need to have a little talk."
"It's not that I don't like you. It's just that I'm very, very busy right now."
"Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them."
"Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy."
"I can't tell what I really want and what I've been tricked into wanting."
"Imagine immortality, where even a marriage of fifty years would feel like a one-night stand."
"Do I really want these things? Or am I trained to want them?"
"You can't love me,» the cop says, Helen says in the cop's grizzled voice, «because I'm a woman and I have more power than you."
"We're living in a teetering tower of babble."
"Big Brother is singing and dancing, and we're left to watch."
"Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth."