Curse Quotes - Page 28

• So in addition to a feisty new Black Court partner in the war dance between the Council and the Vampire Courts, I also got angry lust bunny movies stars, deadly curses, and a thoroughly embarrassing job as my investigative cover. Oh, and bean curd pizza, which is just wrong. What a mess. I made a mental note: The next time I saw Thomas, I was going to punch him right in the nose.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Jobs, War

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• I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

  William Blake

  Running, Wall, Men

  William Blake (2010). “Poems: Introduction by Patti Smith”, p.144, Random House

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• The ordinary man is the curse of civilization.

  John Fowles

  Men, Civilization, Ordinary

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real?

  Rick Yancey

  Real, Mind, Temples

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Mother, Blow, Light

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• I do shodo magic,” Dali said. “I curse through calligraphy. I have to write the curse out on a piece of paper and I can’t move while I do it. One smudge, and I might kill the lot of us.” Oh good. “But don’t worry.” Dali waved her arms. “It’s so precise, it usually doesn’t work at all.” Better and better.

  Ilona Andrews

  Moving, Writing, Worry

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• V rolled the Aquafina bottle between his palms. "How long have you wanted to ask me the question? About the gay thing." "For a while." "Afraid of what I'd say?" "Nope, because it doesn't matter to me one way or the other. I'm tight with you whether you like males or females or both." V looked into his best friend's eyes and realized… yeah, Butch wasn't going to judge him. They were cool no matter what. With a curse, V rubbed the center of his chest and blinked. He never cried but he felt as if he could at this moment.

  J.R. Ward

  Eye, Gay, Judging

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• Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

  Anne Rice

  Memories, Lost Everything, Memos

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• Voodoo Girl Her skin is white cloth, and she's all sewn apart and she has many colored pins sticking out of her heart. She has many different zombies who are deeply in her trance. She even has a zombie who was originally from France. But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick farther in.

  Tim Burton

  Girl, Heart, Winning

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• One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Destiny, Imagination

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1663, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Thinking, Gone, Humans

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Sep 07, 2011

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• ...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Hate, Talking, People

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• When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tugging, Body, Married

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• Your language, dear," Victoria reproved gently. "A lady never curses in public. There are much better ways to handle the delicate male ego." Keiley paused. "With a two-by-four?" she asked. Victoria's lips pursed a smile tugged at her lips. "Only as a last resort," she murmured humorously. "And never in public.

  Lora Leigh

  Two, Ego, Lips

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• This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.

  Holly Black

  Deception, Language, Born

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Memories, Fall, Blue

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.38, Penguin

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• Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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• You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

  William Shakespeare

  Taught, Language, Tempest

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 1, sc. 2, l. 363

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• Curse Hermes and his multi-vitamins!

  Rick Riordan

  Vitamins, Hermes

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting --" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you . . . did you bathe in the River Styx?" "Don't change the subject." "Percy! Did you or not?" "Um . . .maybe a little.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Rivers, Bears

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• Kat felt her heart beat faster, adrenaline pumping through her veins, and she knew he was right. She studied him for a long time. "Do you believe in curses, Hale?" He looked at her. "I believe in you.

  Ally Carter

  Believe, Heart, Long

  Ally Carter (2011). “Uncommon Criminals”, p.185, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  House, Feelings, Mind

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.612, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Lying, Knowing, Packs

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.255, Penguin

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• If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Good Friend, Drs

  "Pope Francis: freedom of expression has limits" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2015.

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• The eyes of all America are upon us, as we play our part posterity will bless or curse us.

  Henry Knox

  Eye, Play, America

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