Latest Quotes

“Thinking there is something better out there in the world, something worth more than you already have... of all my mistakes, that was my biggest.”

— Louise Candlish, The Swimming Pool

“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or y…”

— Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus. Erotica By Anais Nin

“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”

— Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle: A Novel

“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”

— John Irving, Avenue of Mysteries

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”

— Sophocles, Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (The Complete Greek Tragedies)

“Trump doesn't even make the cut to be a city councilman.”

— Wanda Sykes, via twitter.com

“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”

— Donald Trump, The Truth About Trump

“The quiet shadow of you seeped under my window panes and found its way to the corner of my room, and before I knew it, I inadvertently gave you the permit to stay there, to build your own little space in my heart.”

— Alexis Agape, You Let Me In, But Now You’ve Pushed Me Out And It’s Destroying Me

“How soon that song is learned still amazes me. I heard it from my boy, red and wet in my arms, still corded to the womb. The melody was in the afterbirth still lifting waves across that membrane’s silver skin.”

— Matthew Nienow, 'House Of Water'

“I deleted your number. Although I know the tired digits by heart, Scout’s honor, pinky promise. I am trying to talk myself out of every emotion I’m having, and of course, it is failing to a fault. I’m still sad, I’m still mad, I’m still heartbroken, I miss you.”

— Elizabeth Brooks, goodreads.com

“We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil -- black gold! -- ghettoizin…”

— Jesse Williams, Bet Awards Humanitarian Award Acceptance Speech, 2016

“If you have a critique for our resistance then you’d better have an established record, a critique of our oppression.”

— Jesse Williams, Bet Awards Humanitarian Award Acceptance Speech, 2016

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon Ballerina

“Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to de-escalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. So what’s going to happen is we’re going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.”

— Jesse Williams, Bet Awards Humanitarian Award Acceptance Speech, 2016

“Whoever thought up the phrase ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’ was an idiot. Absence makes a bitch go crazy.”

— Toni Aleo, Taking Shots

“My world is a million shattered pieces put together, glued by my tears, where each piece is nothing but a reflection of YOU.”

— Sanhita Baruah, {"id":966,"title":"","slug":"","created_at":"2016-05-08 00:58:39","updated_at":"2016-05-08 00:58:39"}

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Even the most colorful garden appears like a graveyard without you.”

— Saravana Kumar Murugan, iamsarav.com

“Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.”

— George Linley, Thou Art Gone

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook