Latest Quotes

“The perfect Asian for every occasion.”

— @ameliatudo, instagram.com

“All kings is mostly rapscallions.”

— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)

“What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?”

— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Amazon Classics Edition)

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

— William Shakespeare, Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare)

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

— Toni Morrison, Beloved

“Is it just me or have the doctors gowns gotten much more chic??”

— Jenna Dewan Tatum, instagram.com

“I have no regrets.”

— Leandra Medine, instagram.com

“We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact we invented the whole sloppy mess of love and intimacy and aversion and euphoria and failure. But most importantly of all, most subversively of all,…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Love summer hate everything else”

— Leandra Medine, instagram.com

“Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, goodreads.com

“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

“Most of the people who hate Hillary when she’s running for office end up liking her just fine once she’s won. And I have every confidence that history will repeat itself again this November. As for myself, I have been watching Presidential elections since Nixon. And never in my life has there been a…”

— Michael Arnovitz, dailykos.com

“Nap time can get intense”

— Jenny Mollen, instagram.com

“This claim of unabated mendacity is particularly interesting, because while it is not the oldest defamation aimed at Hillary, it is the one that most effortlessly glides across partisan lines. Indeed, for a surprisingly large percentage of the electorate, the claim that Hillary is innately dishonest…”

— NewDealer, dailykos.com

“I'm easy. Are you?”

— Unknown, Dirty Pick Up Lines

“Goodbye Hong Kong, I'll never forget the taste of your fish balls in my mouth”

— Jenny Mollen, instagram.com

“The social critic Barbara Ehrenreich has persuasively argued that the all-positive approach, with its rejection of the possibility of failure, helped bring on our present financial crises. The psychological evidence, backed by ancient wisdom, certainly suggests that it is not the recipe for success…”

— Oliver Burkeman, nytimes.com