When I read Annihilation last fall, I was intrigued, repulsed, mystified, enchanted, horrified, compelled, absorbed, and ultimately so unable to articulate what had happened that I didn’t attempt a review. But it has never stopped growing on me, new insights twining around in my brain. It’s insidious. Then the movie happened. I. Had. To. Go. I didn’t think anyone could film the book, and I was on Cloud 9 when I saw the abundance of rave critical reviews. It got compared to Apocalypse Now and 2001: A Space Odyssey ! It got called “stunning” and the “Best Sci-Fi Film in Years” that “ranks among great philosophical sci-fi”! And though there were many differences from the book, it sounded almost as batshitcrazybrilliant as the book!! Which means there are now two equally haunting versions of this story for me to wonder WTF happened. I might not have all the answers, but I’ve certainly enjoyed replaying scenes in my mind and pondering the possibilities. And I suspect that’s
You choose what you can live with and what you can't live without. Jerricho Barrons - Shadowfever
ReplyDeleteHe pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?"
ReplyDeleteI do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.
I didn’t ask. Some things are better left unsaid.
ReplyDeleteHe looked at me and I shivered. I never get enough of him.
Never will.
He lives.
I breathe.
I want. Him. Always.
Fire to my ice. Ice to my fever.
Later we would go to bed, and when he rose over me, dark and vast and eternal, I’d know joy.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
"One day you will kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence."
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"Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are."
ReplyDeleteI love everything that falls from Barrons' mouth! ;)
ReplyDeleteIn the Serengeti, Ms. Lane, I would be the cheetah. I'm stronger, smarter, faster, and hungrier than everything else out there. And I don't apologize to the Gazelle when I take it down. ~ Jericho Barrons FaeFever
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“The most confused we ever get is when we're trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie.
ReplyDelete"Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are."
ReplyDelete“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
ReplyDelete“Although love could grow in times of peace, it tempered in battle. Daddy told me once - when I'd said something about how perfect his relationship with Mom was - that I should have seen the first five years of their marriage, that they'd fought like hellions, crashed into each other like two giant stones. That eventually they'd eroded each other into the perfect fit, become a single wall, nestled into each other's curves and hollows, her strengths chinking his weaknesses, her weaknesses reinforced by his strengths.”
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Try and I'll chain you up. - Jericho Barrons Shadow Fever
ReplyDeleteThanks for giveaway! This is so hard. So many great quotes. One of my favorites is
ReplyDelete“I hate fate. I don’t believe in her. Unfortunately, I think the bitch believes in me.” - Shadow Fever.
“Procrastinating is number one of my Stupid List. You still end up exactly where you didn't want to be, doing exactly what you didn't want to do, with the only difference being you lost all that time in between, during which you could have been doing something fun. Even worse, you probably stayed in a stressed-out, scrappy mood the whole time you were avoiding it.”
ReplyDelete― Dani O'Malley, Iced
^ I love Dani! That quote is so so so true and I'm doing my best to avoid procrastinating haha.
“Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it's those hours that make us what we are.”
ReplyDeleteThanks for the amazing giveaway! :)
"My philosophy is pretty simple - any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book." :D
ReplyDelete“There are only two things to worry about in life: either you’re free or you’re not. If you’re free, there’s nothing to worry about. If you’re not, you kick the shit out of everything around you until you are.”
ReplyDeleteOne dy you may kiss a man you can't breathe without and find that breath is of little consequence. JZB I love all of Karen's Books!!
ReplyDelete"You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl" - *cries*
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite series. First go round I listened to them on audio, I think I would like to read them this time.
ReplyDeleteThere are too many quote gems for me to pick one, its like picking a favourite child. Thank you for hte giveaway.
ReplyDelete“Holy priceless collection of Etruscan snoods, they’re not moving!” I exclaim. There’s a choking noise over my head somewhere. “Etruscan snoods?” I glow quietly inside. Some accomplishments mean more than others. I am officially the Shit. Now and forever. “Dude, watch your question marks. I just pried one out of you.”
ReplyDeleteHadnt read, blackroze37@yahoo.com
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