The Blood

“The blood is the life!” 

~ Bram Stoker

I Often Stood

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.” 

~ Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

Trifles

“Trifles make the sum of life. ” 

~ Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

I Never Could Have Done

“I never could have done what I have done, 

without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, 

without the determination to concentrate myself 

on one object at a time.” 

~ Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Omnia Mutantur

“Omnia mutantur, nihil interit (everything changes, nothing perishes).” 

~ Ovid, Metamorphoses

A Vibrator

“A vibrator can last all night, too, vampire! - Denise” 

Jeaniene Frost, First Drop of Crimson

Keep Your Friends Close

“Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.” 

~ Mario Puzo

As Flies to Wanton Boys

“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.

They kill us for their sport.” 

~ William Shakespeare, King Lear

The Reason for the Unreason

“The reason for the unreason with which you treat my reason , 

so weakens my reason that with reason I complain of your beauty.” 

~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Oh, I am

“Oh, I am fortune's fool!” 

~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

My Meaning Simply Is

“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.” 

~ Charles Dicken, David Copperfield

All the Girls in the World

“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.” 

~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Procrastination

“Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” 

~ Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

The First Thing We Do

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.” 

~ William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2

No Amount of Fire

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge 

what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” 

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby