Blasted Quotes

“Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; it pounced; it bored its way into you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You would wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds.[Witnessing the first atomic bomb test explosion.]”

“Of course, the truth is that no one likes change. People in hell not only refuse to leave it, they invite you in, too. Even people who have blasted the other lives that touched their own blasted lives proudly declare in old age that they would not change a thing -- all that cursing and screaming was their life, by God, and it is not possible to imagine any other. Change introduces unpredictability, uncertainty, a universe of disorder. Right before an amoeba splits in two, it says to itself, uh uh, no way, I ain't gonna do that, nope.”

“It is so simple and easy to hate and so grueling and hard to love, when the emotional “love forever”- revelation has become a crumbling “love never, ever again”- crack-up. There is no route back to a paradise lost, when the bonds of trust have, irrevocably, been blasted. ("Another empty room")”

“Can I finish my blasted story? We'll get to supernatural kindergarten later.”

“I think that’s why I write—the not knowing and the blasted good feeling I get out of it all.”

“Never did he fail to respond savagely to the chatter of the squirrel he had first met on the blasted pine.”

“Piper wondered if Olympian gods ever blasted their kids with lightning for being evil, or grounded them in the Underworld.”

“When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies.”

“That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.”

“getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart”