favorite quotes from books? (novels, cover, tom clancy)

[dollparts]

You

We keep burning in the brown smog pit. The girls swarm in their black moth dresses. Their scalps are shaved like concentration camp ladies. Rats click my head. Everything broken.

When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. How could skin be that thin? I was so afraid you might drop and break. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't.

When you were crying I got out of bed and went into your room. You were thrashing around behind the bars of the crib, your face twisted and red, like, how could they be doing this to me? I didn't understand why Mom hadn't come to you.

You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious -- wide and flickering like a butterfly-wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just quieter heaves of your body. I held out my finger through the bars.

Then you reached out and curled your fingers around mine, so tight. I knew you recognized me. That was the first time I knew I had a heart inside my body.

You still cry too easily, but without your tears, at least, everything would burn. You are Spring in your jeans, in the laughing leaves. I think pearls melted over your bones.

I thought sacrifice might mean something. The wounds throb even though they're not real yet. Would you reach inside them to uncover the secret? You try to tell me but your tongue feels severed.

- The whole first chapter of Wasteland, by Francesca Lia Block

[Tom Lennox 70]

Can't quote it directly...but the President's final speech in "Executive Orders" by Tom Clancy...very patriotic and inspirational and really fit that book.

Been some time since Clancy wrote any novels! Vince Flynn and Dale Brown and Larry Bond will have to do for now but Clancy is still my favorite.

[Dedalus]

"Man is born in sin and lives in corruption and passes from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something [on anyone]"