what Dave thinks about movies, books and everything
{5/5} “We have means of detecting a paradox before it actually happens — and, again, I won’t tell you what they are. But any threat to this precious and fragile enterprise will be nipped in the bud, I can assure you that. And those responsible will be punished. No exceptions. And no clemency, either.” Leyster […]
{4.5/5} “We want all those who are guilty to experience the terror of their crimes.” Jane works for a private security firm. Her new assignment is to infiltrate an anarchist group known as the East. The East attacks major corporations — for example, they dumped oil in the house of a CEO of a corporation […]
{4.5/5} “That’s why we call it The Majestic. Any man, woman, child could buy their ticket, walk right in. Here they’d be, here we’d be. ‘Yes sir, yes ma’am. Enjoy the show.’ And in they’d come entering a palace, like in a dream, like in heaven. Maybe you had worries and problems out there, but […]
{4.5/5} “You always stop at the same part, where it’s very beautiful. And interesting.” Alexandria is a young girl who fell and broke her arm and she’s at the hospital. She meets a man named Roy, also a patient, who tells her a story about Alexander the Great. Roy is paralyzed from the waist down […]
{5/5} “Do you think if people knew how crazy you really were no one would ever talk to you?” Charlie’s aunt was killed in an accident and his best friend committed suicide a few months ago. Now he’s starting high school — most of the kids either ignore him or treat him badly. He makes […]
{4.5/5} “Do you think dying has made me morbid?” Ned can bring people and animals back to life by touching them. But if he touches them a second time they’ll go back to being dead. And if he doesn’t touch them a second time within one minute then someone else will die — to make […]
{4.5/5} “Felicitas turned to her friend. Adriana stared straight ahead. Felicitas felt sorry for Adriana because she knew Adriana hadn’t changed, didn’t look at things the way she now did. And it was the same all over the yard. Some now had the spark of life. Others, like Adriana, were still dead, their eyes leaden. […]
{4/5} “I know I promised I wouldn’t waste my intellect on kryptonite robots and elaborate super-death traps… But three months ago, I looked in the mirror at those nasty little spiderwebs of lines around my eyes, and I realized something… I’m getting older and… and he isn’t… So, if I want to die happy, it’s […]
{3.5/5} “You can’t find out everything from books, you know.” Brendan lives in a monastery where his uncle Cellach is the abbot. Uncle Cellach is focussed on building a wall around the monastery, to keep the Vikings out. The other monks, as well as Brendan, are more interested in illuminating manuscripts. When Aidan arrives with the […]
{3.5/5} “But research is an art, not a science, because anyone who knows what they’re doing can find the crumbs, the wheres, whats, and whos. The art is in the whys: the ability to read between the crumbs, not to mix metaphors. For every event, there is a cause and effect. For every crime, a […]