Quote

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Christopher Moore

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Christopher Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
Actor
Assistant Director
Journalist
Novelist
Radio Dj
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Toledo
Ohio
Black
Burritos
Around
Enveloped
Like
Simile
Colored
Rejection
Inky
Depression
Tortilla
Despair
Burrito
Pain
Tortillas

More quotes by Christopher Moore

Image
Ack! Parables. I hate parables.
Christopher Moore
Image
An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.
Christopher Moore
Image
And he was like The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk - -Abby
Christopher Moore
Image
I fink I gots deaf on me willie.
Christopher Moore
Image
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a man will forfeit all sensible self-interest if he finds you affable enough to share your company over a flagon of ale.
Christopher Moore
Image
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.
Christopher Moore
Image
Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk
Christopher Moore
Image
Do we look like thrill-seekers? Wasn't it enough that we had to put up that sign reading NO HABLA ESPANOL and acknowledge the existence of thirty percent of the population, even in the negative?
Christopher Moore
Image
Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong.
Christopher Moore
Image
This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?
Christopher Moore
Image
An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
Christopher Moore
Image
Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.
Christopher Moore
Image
Boredom can be a lethal thing on a small island.
Christopher Moore
Image
We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.
Christopher Moore
Image
Tommy had felt alone in a crowd before, even inferior to everyone in a crowd, but now he felt, well, different. It wasn't just the clothes and the make up, it was the humanity. He wasn't part of it. Heightened senses or not, he felt like he had his nose pressed against the window, looking in. The problem was, it was the window of a donut shop.
Christopher Moore
Image
Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk
Christopher Moore
Image
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality? It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize. Must be a human thing. Exactly.
Christopher Moore
Image
Don't be ridiculous, Charlie, people love the parents who beat their kids in department stores. It's the ones who just let their kids wreak havoc that everybody hates.
Christopher Moore
Image
I am convinced by the events of the last few weeks that nefarious forces of people--unidentified but no less real--are threatening life as we know it, and in fact, may be bent on unraveling the very fabric of our existence.
Christopher Moore
Image
Why write a song when no one can play the notes or understand the lyrics?
Christopher Moore