Latest Quotes

“I want to do everything on earth with you. I want to float down rivers, traverse deserts, scale mountains and submerge ourselves into the sea. I want to take on a lifetime worth of challenges alongside you but most of all, I want to come home to you.”

— Heidi Priebe, I Want To Do Everything On Earth With You

“It is in Facebook's interest to make sure media organizations have the means to produce the content that makes Facebook the front door to the Internet; that Facebook would make this change knowing it will hurt media organizations (the company wrote in a second blog post that "We anticipate that this…”

— Ben Thompson, Follow-up: Governments’ Focus, Elizabeth Warren’s Speech on Competition, Facebook Changes the News Feed

“[F]or many years, not just the post-World War II era but also the colonial era, governments saw one of their chief roles as being the creation and protection of markets for large companies (which in turn employed large amounts of the governments' citizens). My question at a very fundamental level is…”

— Ben Thompson, Follow-up: Governments’ Focus, Elizabeth Warren’s Speech on Competition, Facebook Changes the News Feed

“Remember, everything is a system. And, given the changes wrought by the post 1970s wave of globalization, it is foolish to think that a core component of society — labor — can be fundamentally changed without there being knock-on effects on the other components of that system.”

— Ben Thompson, The Brexit Possibility

“Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, whenever you were together. Not a place, but a moment, and then another, building on each other like bricks to create a solid shelter that you take with you for your entire life, wherever you may go.”

— Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.”

— A.A. Milne, The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

“Relationships are built on small, consistent deposits of time. You can't cram for what's most important. If you want to connect with your kids, you've got to be available consistently, not randomly.”

— Andy Stanley, Ask It: The Question That Will Revolutionize How You Make Decisions

“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”

— Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's…”

— Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace: A Novel

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”

— Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace: A Novel

“Potential has a shelf life.”

— Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“When you're young, you think everything you do is disposable. You move from now to now, crumpling time up in your hands, tossing it away. You're your own speeding car. You think you can get rid of things, and people too—leave them behind. You don't yet know about the habit they have, of coming back.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin: A Novel

“I say it's over. But how do I say goodbye? When you are the man that I love And can't live without.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved

“Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Hugs should be available at the medical stores 24/7. Sometimes, they are the best healers for almost everything.”

— Minhal Mehdi, Minhal Mehdi

“You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.”

— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd

“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.”

— John Green, Looking for Alaska

“If you think success is predetermined by talent, it becomes a product of something you can’t change. But if you look at it as a product of hard work, then it’s up to you to control the outcome.”

— Anders Weiss, Training for the Olympics Taught Me the Secret to Life