Latest Quotes

“After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an overwhelming sadness, an elusive gaping worry. You don’t try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it’s nothing after all, everything filling up…”

— Susan Minot, 'Lust' in Lust And Other Stories

“Certain nights you’d feel a certain surrender, maybe if you’d had wine. The surrender would be forgetting yourself and you’d put your nose to his neck and feel like a squirrel, safe, at rest, in a restful dream. But then you’d start to slip from that and the dark would come in and there’d be a cave.…”

— Susan Minot, 'Lust' in Lust And Other Stories

“I wanted to be a part of the fearless storm, to be one with it, to refuse to see myself as its passive victim or its naive, romantic worshipper falling down on my knees in a humility I didn’t possess. I wanted to be a part of the order and the chaos, the violence and the raging waters.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine

“Storms and wars were always beginning and always ending, and we lived our lives in the aftermath. There must’ve already been some kind of body count. What was it about us that we measured our catastrophes in bodies? Maybe it consoled those of us who survived.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine

“There is something compelling and seductive about a dangerous sky. The dark clouds made the city appear ancient and wise and civilized, made the buildings look like abandoned ruins that kept all the secrets of the dead.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine

“I wanted to tell him I cared too much. What I didn’t care about was picking up a guy for a night. Maybe I was going through a phase, but love for a night wasn’t love, and taking a stranger to bed wasn’t any different than buying a lottery ticket. Did you really expect to win?”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine

“I loved mornings—the only time of the day that I was free from the prison of words.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine

“I didn't know I’d fallen in love with him, though of course I had, didn’t begin to know it until I sat next to him, smoking a cigarette on the back steps of my apartment on that cloudy day in August just before the rains came.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, What You Get, in Narrative Magazine

“Fourth of July was a birthday party For all the women in my family Going way back, a party For everything Mexico, where they came from, For the other words and the green Tinted glasses my great-grandmother wore.”

— Alberto Álvaro Ríos, The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body

“The scale feeds of tomorrow will be far more powerful than the dominant video feed owners of today. Not only will they be bigger and more influential, they’ll also be more rare – which means life as a content producer will inevitably become less profitable and stable than it is today. Without feed o…”

— Matthew Ball, Tal Shachar, AFTER TV: VIDEO'S FUTURE WILL BE BIGGER, MORE DIVERSE & PRECARIOUS THAN ITS PAST

“The NRA was quiet as a mouse about Philando's execution and 2nd amendment rights being violated. But now they speak [ photo ]”

— Tariq Nasheed, via twitter.com

“I really don't think I need buns of steel. I'd be happy with buns of cinnamon.”

— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding

“True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”

— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding

“You just have to say to yourself, 'I'm not willing to accept anything less than what I deserve! I am smart! I am beautiful! I am a good woman and I deserve to be happy!”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“Simply telling her you love her is not enough, you have to consistently show her as well. It’s the combination of the two that makes it believable.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“Don't try to be 'better' that her ex, be 'different' from her ex. She's tired of the same old thing. She's ready for you to show her something different.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“When you have to rely on yesterday's happiness in a relationship, to get you through today, it might be time to move on.”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man

“When we lose twenty pounds, we may be losing the best twenty pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.”

— Woody Allen, The Insanity Defense

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”

— Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

“She doesn’t want you to try to impress her by doing all these wonderful things, in the beginning, knowing that you have no intentions of continuing them once she’s fallen for you; that's false advertising. What she wants is for you to be honest and real with her, from the start, so she can make an i…”

— Mr. Amari Soul, Reflections Of A Man