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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| fc50b86 | We would get high only for a higher purpose, Lacey had decreed. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| aeca58f | Smash the right two particles together in the right way and you get a bomb. That's us, Dex. Accidental fusion. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 1fc0737 | It was only ours the way everything was ours: because the world we created between the two of us was secret and wholly owned. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| af06198 | My secret self, the scarecrow-Lacey built of twigs and mud and bark, the Lacey who was made of forest and would someday be summoned home. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 72e8057 | I don't believe in Our Dark Lord of the Underworld or the rising of the Antichrist, I don't believe in child sacrifice or wild midnight blood rituals, and I don't believe that I can call on the power of Satan to knock some cheerleader off her pyramid. Wearing black felt safe. Wearing it on my skin, the mark of something vicious, that felt right. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 5642748 | Have you ever been in love? For real? | Cassandra Clare Robin Wasserman The Evil We Love | ||
| 7066b84 | I did it all mechanically. Mechanically, as in without thought, as in through force of habit, as in instinctively, automatically, involuntarily. Mechanically, as in like-a-machine. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 519f7cc | When I was a kid I used to wonder if, just maybe, the world existed only for me. If rooms ceased to exist when I stepped into the hallway and people disappeared once they left me, the rest of their lives imagined solely for my entertainment. | dissociation | Robin Wasserman | |
| 74bde22 | It was almost a relief, no longer having to be extraordinary. To give up on existential questioning and simply abide. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| abfa24a | Now I wonder, Nicki said. Didn't we all? What it would be like to be one of them, to have power, be seen, be heard, be dude rather than sluts, be jocks or geeks, or bros or nice guys, or boys will be boys, or whatever we wanted instead of quantum leaping between good girl and whore. To be the default, not the exception, to be in control, to seize control, simply because we happen to have a dick. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| a2616ce | Even now, I believe that to know how is useless if we do not know why. And there are too many who forbid us to ask. | forbidden-knowledge questions-and-answers questions knowledge | Robin Wasserman | |
| 353bfce | I think you grow up different, by the water. You grow up knowing there's a way out. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| fb4cf6e | Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn't notice. Poor | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 1d7c2c9 | You tell me, Dex, what kind of a bullshit god doesn't care what you did or who you hurt as long as you say you're sorry? Forgiveness | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 770e9c7 | People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| ae12650 | cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life. | life-quotes life-lessons life cause-and-effect cliche cause effect result life-philosophy | Robin Wasserman | |
| f78209b | Whatever was going on between my parents, I suppose that my fantasy of self-sufficiency, my heavy investment in my own mind, is also a kind of narcissistic cathexis. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| ff7f7b5 | For anyone but the landed gentry to refer to a room in their house as "the library" might seem affected. But there really was no other word for it." | Alison Bechdel | ||
| e256390 | My mother must have bathed me hundreds of times. But it's my father rinsing me off with the purple metal cup that I remember most clearly. The suffusion of warmth as the hot water sluiced over me... ...the sudden, unbearable cold of its absence. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 8a2bc70 | Language gets very confusing as it approaches this place where outside and inside touch. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 3f52f8a | The most sturdy nouns fell to faint approximations under my pen. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 63338a4 | I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture. | Alison Bechdel | ||
| 1cc4ea0 | In his 1964 talk on feminism, Winnicott says something he's been saying all along. "...We find that the trouble is not so much that everyone was inside and then born, but that at the very beginning everyone was on a woman." Winnicott sees this dependence as the root of misogyny--though he never uses that word. Perhaps, like Woolf with "feminism," he felt plain language was more persuasive. "The awkward fact remains, for men and women, tha.. | feminism relationships family misogyny parents | Alison Bechdel | |
| e30de8f | could | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 48b3b48 | Reaching California, many of the Pacific-bound servicemen were caught in limbo, waiting for a ship and that suited them fine. No one doubted that the route to Tokyo would be long and bloody, and they were in no hurry to travel it. The sweating malarial jungles of the South Pacific, the infinitesimal atolls of the Central Pacific, all those obscure islands with their alien names - Efate, Espiritu Santo, Malaita, Gaudalcanal, Emirau, Tarawa, .. | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 20095bd | forces in Batjan on June 11.61 | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 0d9f8a7 | than it had ever been before: | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 5d990a9 | Families were bound by the oyaku-shinju (parent-child death pact). The were obligated to take their own lives and those of their kin by any means at hand. Cyanide capsules were given out until there were no more. Soldiers offered to shoot civilians in turn and did not always wait to be invited. In a crowded cave, one grenade might do the work of twenty bullets. Sword-wielding officers beheaded dozens of willing victims. There were reports o.. | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 5fdc1d6 | That day buried levees, birthdays, royal parades, and the arrogation of precedence in society by certain self-styled friends of order, but truly styled friends of privileged orders.... In social circles all are equal, whether in or out of office, foreign or domestic, & the same equality exists among ladies as among gentlemen. No precedence therefore, of any one over another, exists either in right or practice at dinners, assemblies, or any .. | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 6fe1fac | Britain would work its influence gently, so as not to chafe the fragile American ego--Churchill informed his war cabinet that the Americans "were not above learning from us, provided that we did not set out to teach them." | Ian W. Toll | ||
| 8146b0e | How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes? | Ian W. Toll | ||
| a9c0adf | The alliance Massasoit negotiated with Plymouth was successful from the Wampanoag perspective, for it helped to hold off the Narragansett. But it was a disaster from the point of view of New England Indian society as a whole, for the alliance ensured the survival of Plymouth colony, which spearheaded the great wave of British immigration to Nee England. All of this was absent not only from my high school textbooks, but from the academic acc.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 1b04e9c | According to Peter Stahl, an anthropologist at the State University of New York in Binghamton, "lots" of researchers believe that "what the eco-imagery would like to picture as a pristine, untouched Urwelt [primeval world] in fact has been managed by people for millennia." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 62309a2 | The chronological list of rulers differs on different lists, some lists do not include known kings, and some include kings who probably were mythological--as if a tally of English rulers matter-of-factly included King Arthur and his father, Uther Pendragon. The | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b103ca8 | By mining the forests upstream for firewood and floating the logs downriver to the city, they were removing ground cover and increasing the likelihood of catastrophic floods. When these came, as they later did, kings who gained their legitimacy from their claims to control the weather would face angry questioning from their subjects. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| ce51cff | Having grown separately for millennia, the [orginal] Americans were a boundless sea of novel ideas, drea,s, stories, philosophies, religions, ,oralities, discoveries, and all other products of the mind....Here and there we see clues of what might have been. Pacific Northwest Indian artists carved beautiful masks, boxes, bas-relief S, and totem poles within the dictates of an elaborate aesthetic syste, based on an ovoid shapes that has no n.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 9cf83dd | By the eve of the American Revolution, a third of the native people in Rhode Island were enslaved. Indian bondage was more common still in the southern colonies. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 81b6344 | mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 6d3c7ae | Beavers the size of armchairs; turtles that weighed almost as much as cars; sloths able to reach tree branches twenty feet high; huge, flightless, predatory birds like rapacious ostriches--the tally of Pleistocene monsters is long and alluring. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 2920d73 | Inside the settlement was a world of warmth, family, and familiar custom. But the world outside, as Thomas put it, was "a maze of confusing actions and individuals fighting to maintain an existence in the shadow of change." And that was before the Europeans showed up." | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 60bf2f9 | In Deloria's opinion, archaeology is mainly about easing white guilt. Determining that Indians superseded other people fits neatly into this plan. "If we're only thieves who stole our land from someone else," Deloria said, "then they can say, 'Well, we're just the same. We're all immigrants here, aren't we?" | Charles C. Mann | ||
| b08879a | The Olmec were but the first of many societies that arose in Mesoamerica in this epoch. Most had religions that focused on human sacrifice, dark by contemporary standards, but their economic and scientific accomplishments were bright. They invented a dozen different systems of writing, established widespread trade networks, tracked the orbits of the planets, created a 365-day calendar (more accurate than its contemporaries in Europe), and r.. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| 6f392b0 | Valencia's plan was conversion by proxy: he and the rest of the twelve would open the eyes of the Indian priesthood to the beauties of the true faith, gaining their adherence by reasoned theological discussion, and then the priests would fan out and spread the Gospel in their native tongue. | Charles C. Mann | ||
| faf9547 | Planting their orchards for millennia, the first Amazonians slowly transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings. In the country inhabited by the Ka'apor, on the mainland southeast of Marajo, centuries of tinkering have profoundly changed the forest community. In Ka'apor-managed forests, according to Balee's plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by huma.. | Charles C. Mann |