It begins with the birth of a new people, and the choices they’ll have to make, and the people they will decide to become.
Robert Ford, Westworld
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“There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women, when in love, were torn between two impulses, a longing to throw modesty and reserve to the winds and confess everything, and an equal determination to conceal the love forever, to be cool, aloof, utterly detatched, to die rather than admit a thing so personal, so intimate.”
— Daphne DuMaurier
““…candied plums, figs, oranges, and apricots with fine gold leaf, and more gold was being smoothed onto sweet biscuits of fried dough cut into witty shapes and drenched in spiced syrup and rosewater.””
— Philip Kazan, “Appetite.”
“The name they gave you belongs to someone else, their invention of you; if you turn out not to be that person, you have to name yourself.”
— Chelsey Johnson, Stray City
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. By god do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next — if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions — you’d be doomed. You’d be as ruined as God. You’d be a stone. You’d never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You’d never love anyone, ever again. You’d never dare to.”
— Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin (via violentwavesofemotion)
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams, The milk train doesn’t stop here anymore
Life is a hell of a thing to happen to person.
David Rossi, Criminal Minds
The world of [bright, loud] colors is opposed to the world of values, and the ‘chic’ invariably implies the elimination of appearances in favor of being: black, white, grey — whatever registers zero on the color scale — is correspondingly paradigmatic of dignity, repression, and moral standing.
Jean Baudrillard
Quoted in McMansion, USA by Kate Wagner
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