Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
compliment
Compliment but do not covet.
attention hummingbirds attention-span
He has the attention span of a hummingbird.
sarcasm differences irony
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
morning light ice
Lonliness evaporated off of them like the steam off dry ice, and by morning it was just a cloud on the ceiling of the room, then gone with the light.
running facts lost
After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.
desire wrecks want
Abby: I could be a slave to your darkest desires. I can do things. Anything you want. Tommy: Well, that's terrific, because we have a lot of laundry piled up and the apartment is a wreck. Abby: Anything you desire, my lord. I can do laundry, clean, bring you small creatures to quench your thirst until I am worthy.
baby nerd sophie
Charlie had Sophie strapped to his chest like a terrorist baby bomb when he came down the back steps. She had just gotten to the point where she could hold up her head, so he had strapped her in face-out so she could look around. The way her arms and legs waved around as Charlie walked, she looked as if she was skydiving and using a skinny nerd as a parachute.
love marriage thinking
Love is not something you think about, it is a state in which you dwell
dream kings years
Tommy moved on. "Lash, your people have been oppressed for hundreds of years. It's time to strike back. Look, you don't have your MBA yet - they haven't completely juiced you of your usefulness yet. Would Martin Luther King back down from this challenge? Malcolm X? James Brown? Don't you have a dream? Don't you feel good, like you knew that you would, now?
girlfriend lilies abby
...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal
hate i-hate parables
Ack! Parables. I hate parables.
messages mediums
The medium obscured the message.
safety routine illusion
Routine feeds the illusion of safety...
chocolate shadow hot
Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk