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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| d48a432 | tm)' (Just Doomed!) David Worthy Category: Character Appears in: Schooling Around series David Worthy is a class captain of 5B at Northwest Southeast Central School (David shares the captaincy with Fiona McBrain). David is very fond of rules and is never happier than when quoting from the school handbook. Appearances Treasure Fever! (2008) Pencil of Doom! (2008) Mascot Madness! (2009) Robot Riot! (2009) The Day My Bum Went Psycho Category: .. | Andy Griffiths | ||
| 940cb0b | Org dreams are nothing but random neural firings, spurts of color and unprompted emotion. The story comes later, in that instant before waking, your muddled mind making sense of the chaos by stringing the randomness into a narrative. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 725b460 | You'd think BioMax could have improved on the defective male brain. . . . | Robin Wasserman | ||
| c7cfa44 | The days had no shape. They passed, which was good enough. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 8610773 | She was dressed for summer in Battle Creek, which meant straddling the narrow line between socially acceptable and buck naked, somehow making a strapped cotton shell and sweaty cutoffs look both girl-next-door sexy and living-room-small-talk appropriate. Kid-tested, mother-approved. I was dressed nearly the same, but looked like a homeless person. "So," | Robin Wasserman | ||
| e149ae5 | Since I was dead -- or worse than dead, buried alive in a body that might as well be a coffin except it denied me the pleasure of suffocation -- I figured I should be allowed to grieve. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 3877996 | Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter? | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 9b0e54f | Like when everything flipped upside down and the scream of metal on metal exploded the silence and the world churned around me, ground over sky over ground over sky, and then, with a thunderous crack and a crunching of glass and steel, a twisted roof crushing me into a gutted floor, ground, I wasn't surprised. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 11dd06a | The chemicals were both highly flammable and highly toxic, and more than one inexpert bust had ended in conflagration. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 4823fa1 | Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 07f31e1 | Never be sorry, never be frightened, never be careful - those were the rules of Lacey. Play by the rules, win the game: Never be alone. | Robin Wasserman | ||
| 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 knowledge questions questions-and-answers | 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. | cause cause-and-effect cliche effect life life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes result | 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.. | family feminism misogyny parents relationships | 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 |