DJ Shadow Quotes

Love hides in all sorts of places, in the most sorrowful corner of your heart, in the darkest and most hopeless situation

What is your name?"Why?"So I can mark your grave...

Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.

She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.

We laughed as we ducked behind a pile of snow. Then our brothers came charging through the barrier, sending the four of us sliding down a white slope full of cherished memories.

I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cascade of silver bubbles dancing up to the surface.

I brooded over it. If it had been any other dream, I would have ignored it. But it was one of those dreams. One of those purple dreams. One of those dreams that had an unusual tendency to come true.

But what if Oscar—” “Breathes fire and threatens to cook you over a grill?” “I was thinking what if he gets mad, but I think your way works as well.” “Then you shall make for a tasty meal.

Where are you going?" she called after me, her voice mocking. "What's waiting for you out there?" "Nothing!" I shouted at her. "No one!

I'd rather be in danger with you than be safe without you.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

She couldn't live in denial of her own humanity.

You are not one of Pentrigrel’s creations. This is not where you belong. He will not keep his word to you. He is concerned only with himself. You cannot condemn yourself to this over Lunette’s fate.

An idle mind is a devil’s workshop and I am prone to renting out my mind to the first bidder.

The earth is a mosaic, and most fail to notice the gossamer tesserae floating down from the realm of the mind that form its images of beauty and horror.

There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don't doubt yourself, Shadow. There is more valor in your heart than you realize.

There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.

Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is – you deal with it.

Fiction is as easy as telling a convincing lie. The more believable the better the story.

If a wizard should take up residence in your garden and requests food, you are obliged to feed him.

Suddenly, a voice called from the darkness. Taylor leapt like a salmon, then became rooted to the spot like a tin of salmon.

Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it

Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.

Creativity is at the root of excitement.

You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Words matter. Without words you can't have stories and without stories we would never have heard of the Greatcoats.

words, you see, " he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

I'm a Polaroid developing in reverse

I was miserable before I knew I was no longer happy

There are moments when we all step away from the light...

Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

Did I miss the part where we were in a relationship?

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

The things left unsaid to people we care about, and the void those unspoken words leave, often have more impact than what is said.

I love you best, and I'll miss you forever.

Sometimes we grieve the living more than the dead.

On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.

So, how can I try to be someone I didn't really even know?

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

I said nothing. Deep inside of me, my voice screamed from a hole where I had buried it

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

What If Following Her HeartMeans Rose Could Lose Her Best Friend Forever?

Men are quite unobservant, you know. They see only what they wish to see.

It would take entire lifetimes for the men of Carthya to deserve their women.

Sometimes, the best thing you can do in order to learn about the world around you is to step outside of yourself, remove your routine and watch the happenings about you.

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.