86 quotes found
Writer · American
American writer
“To take a breath of water: does the thought panic or excite you?”
“Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.”
“Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.”
“Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.”
“It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”
“This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.”
“[A]fter all, what does it mean for pain to be 'memorable'? You're either in pain or you're not. And it isn't the pain that one forgets. It's the touching death part. As the baby might say to its mo...”
“Were only given as much as the heart can endure, What does not kill you makes you stronger, Our sorrows provide us with the lessons we most need to learn: these are the kinds of phrases that enrage...”
“After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”
“102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”
“Some of the subjects of Puppies and Babies may not identify as queer, but it doesnt matter: the installation queers them. By which I mean to say that it partakes in a long history of queers constru...”
“I remember, around age ten, beholding the scene in The Shining in which the hot young woman whom Jack Nicholson is lewdly embracing in the haunted hotel bathroom ages rapidly in his arms, screechin...”
“Youre looking for sexual tidbits as a female child, and the only ones that present themselves depict child rape or other violations (all my favorite books in my preteen years: I Know Why the Caged ...”
“Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.”
“It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.”
“For blue has no mind. It is not wise, nor does it promise any wisdom. It is beautiful, and despite what the poets and philosophers and theologians have said, I think beauty neither obscures truth n...”
“Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.”
“One thing they dont tell you bout the blues when you got em, you keep on fallin cause there ain't no bottom,' sings Emmylou Harris, and she may be right. Perhaps it would help to be told that there...”
“Like many self-help books, The Deepest Blue is full of horrifyingly simplistic language and some admittedly good advice. Somehow the women in the book learn to say: Thats my depression talking. Its...”
“I felt the wild need for any or all of these people that night. Lying there alone, I began to feel - perhaps even to know - that I did not exist apart from their love and need of me.Of this latter ...”
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the ...”
“238. I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in...”
“The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.”
