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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f9de005 | He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| cf46961 | The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead she made her way upstairs, reading the inscriptions that caught her eye, moved by the sheer accumulation of loss. Grief-fiti. That's what it was. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| b786ed3 | Over the next eight years, almost without noticing, I arrived at a quiet revelation. You could make a home by yourself. You could fill that home with friends and friendly strangers without someone sleeping next to you. You could tend your garden and cook your meals and find predictable pleasure in your own autonomy. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| e22724f | The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world." | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 2cbac5c | Uh ... you know, strict." "With occasional lapses into lacto and ovo, huh?" "Yes. Except on weekends and nights when I'm stoned. Then I'm a steako-lacto-ovo ... or maybe a porkchopo-lacto-ovo..." | Armistead Maupin | ||
| c54723d | Life goes on, sport. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 750eba8 | She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 49091b7 | Still, I gave her a call, wondering if she might have lost someone herself, but our talk was limited to the surreal events we'd just watched on television. A crisis does draw people together, but rarely for the right reason. The old wounds flare up again soon enough; the bond lasts no longer than the terror. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| c0227cd | And this was what bothered him about owning a VCR. If that cowboy was yours for the taking--yours at the flip of a switch--what was to stop you from abandoning human contact altogether? He | Armistead Maupin | ||
| a0324ff | Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all. | mirth | Armistead Maupin | |
| 9dd15e0 | C'etait le grand point fort de l'amour : quelqu'un qui vous attend et vous declare que le chemin sera moins penible, a partir de maintenant. Meme si ce n'est peut-etre pas vrai. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 8608258 | In a burst of hideous insight, DeDe realized the depth of her commitment to this marriage. She had just traded adultery for a cheeseburger and an order of french fries. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 66a31f1 | Help me find Vuitton." The priest scolded her with a glance. "You've lost him again?" "Of course not," said Prue. "He's around here somewhere. Vuiiiton! Here, boy!Vuiiiiiton! ..." | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 3b69757 | The little pool was lighted now, the same glowing green-or so I imagined-as the eyes of the cats who slept in the shadows around it. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 39fa7fe | We have rules. Full disclosure, for one thing. And we're in bed with each other at the end of the day. Our commitment is for life, and we save our hearts for each other. That way we can have play AND permanency. If monogamy becomes more important than fidelity, you're bound to get hurt. It's all the lying that clobbers you, not the sex. | gay-lovers monogamy sex | Armistead Maupin | |
| 9388729 | Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear." Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. "I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little tumble one night and almost harpooned the cat." This was very much the Anna she remembered: warm and self-mocking and complete present. And somehow that made it even harder to accept how frail she'd become since Mary Ann's last visit." | getting-old hairstyle lgbtqia-characters | Armistead Maupin | |
| 4b303ca | I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine." "What?" "Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt." | lgbtqia-characters orgy | Armistead Maupin | |
| 4a80836 | The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 9626dc0 | And I'd like Ben there, of course, cuddling me into the void with the usual sweet assurances. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| f38d77b | footnotes to a feeling | Armistead Maupin | ||
| ecde0de | My youth would be like that, the slow decay of cherished myths--about politics and race, about love itself--until nothing was left but compost from which something authentic could finally begin to grow. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 46ace5e | spotted the playwright in a crowd of shiny-faced people, all scrambling to be photographed with him. He had plastered a smile on his face, but he looked bereft and empty. Trapped. It was the most chilling image of fame I had ever seen thus far. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 1079fed | The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed but good. Not right away, maybe, but sooner or later. You have to--I don't know--you have to learn to live with yourself. You have to learn to turn back your own sheets and set a table for one without feeling pathetic. You have to be strong and confident and pleased with yourself and never give t.. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 041f11f | Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 5df4647 | I busted my butt trying to be everything to one person. Finally, I had to settle for being one thing to every person. | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 72b1abe | THERE WERE MORNINGS WHEN VINCENT FELT LIKE THE last hippie in the world. The Last Hippie. The phrase assumed a kind of tragic grandeur as he stood in the bathroom of his Oak Street flat, fluffing his amber mane to conceal his missing ear. If | Armistead Maupin | ||
| 1bca3ef | is often a hostile act, often an exercise of power over somebody else. | Andrea Dworkin | ||
| f16a0b8 | Know your value and you know your place in the order. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 8f45310 | I know a hell of a lot about intercourse. I wish I knew less. | Andrea Dworkin | ||
| 27929aa | Money was new and unpredictable and liked to go where it pleased. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 7b0ef47 | Can women make use of men's vulnerability not to marry but instead to destroy male power? | Andrea Dworkin | ||
| 4bb1e54 | Nature is a strong brand name. Everybody knew that. First thing, Nomenclature 101. Slap Natural on the package, you were golden. Those words on the package promise ease from metropolitan care, modern worries. And out here, if you opened things up, underneath the cellophane, what did you find inside? That fruit has splendid packaging, it has solid consumer awareness and is an animal favorite. Its seeds will be deposited in spoor miles away a.. | marketing nature | Colson Whitehead | |
| 87f463d | Things are pretty much status quo with the sexual-tension friend. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| ea9b41f | They rounded up the Indians in camps, the women and children and whatever they could carry on their backs, and marched them west of the Mississippi. The Trail of Tears and Death, | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 6781535 | He spills his guts, it was the last sip that sent him over the edge but she has her hands full with her own loneliness, she's not about to take on his. Reach inside to muzzle the broken part of you that is now talking. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 361863d | First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers, | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 8246735 | Tennessee was cursed. Initially, she assigned the devastation of Tennessee, the blaze and the disease, to justice. The whites got what they deserved for enslaving her people, for massacring another race, for stealing the very land itself. Let them burn by flame or fever, let the destruction started here roll acre by acre until the dead have been avenged. But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her.. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 5cd925c | Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 11775c1 | The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester house, whose girls had a saturnine disposition in his opinion, as if imported from Maine or other gloom-loving provinces. | maine sadness | Colson Whitehead | |
| e843e2a | In another country they would have been criminals, but this was America. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 9c55742 | Georgina hailed from Delaware and had that vexing way of Delaware ladies, delighting in puzzles. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 2097689 | But if he didn't read, he was a slave. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 7f8343f | Why not remove his desk, bring in a treadmill, hang a carrot from the ceiling and stop all pretense already. | Colson Whitehead | ||
| 3ff784c | She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him. | Colson Whitehead |