#non-fiction quotes

[dreamy-conceit]

"[Paul] is going to be my sexual consultant," Wilson was heard to say. "When I want his fucking advice, I’ll ask for it."

— Tylee Wilson, quoted by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, 'Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco'

[selfshippingquotes]

Non-human F/O: I love you with all my heart, S/I.

S/I: But you don't have a–

Non-human F/O: Don't ruin this.

[watchoutforintellect]

easily becoming, through an open eye, monstrous and beautiful.

Patti Smith, from Woolgathering

[sadsongbird]

C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses

[wordscanbeenough]

It was a long time ago. It doesn't matter anymore. And yet I cannot let it go. I cannot let it go.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ruth Tiffanny Beuscher

[diaryofaphilosopher]

For those who see history as a competition, Latin America's backwardness and poverty are merely the result of its failure. We lost; others won. But the winners happen to have won thanks to our losing: the history of Latin America's underdevelopment is, as someone has said, an integral part of the history of world capitalism's development. Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others— the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison.

— Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.

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[ijustkindalikebooks]

“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.” ― Carl Sagan.

[beautifulbookishdisaster]

I remember as a child hearing phrases like "Only the strong survive" and "survival of the fittest" and feeling terrified, because I knew I was neither strong nor fit. I didn't yet understand that when humanity protects the frail among us, and works to ensure their survival, the human project as a whole gets stronger.

John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed (Staphylococcus Aureus)

[gennsoup]

Trying new things is the best thing I can do for myself as an artist. In fact, it's the best thing any artist can do. It's always hard. And you fail hard a lot of the time. But if you're not failing, you're not learning.

Anna Akana, So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to My Little Sister

[sock-to-the-third]

Sekai made an “eep” noise. I wanted to make an “eep” noise too, but I was busy.

from The Future of Work, Compulsory by Martha Wells

[viperslang]

Hell Loops of Chronic Depression

Quite like in a tent of mirrors at a carnival, your self image shifts and transforms depending on the kind of mirror in which you see yourself. If my mirror was a dismissive spouse, the image shrunk, became bloodless and meager to fit his fantasies. If the mirror was a casteist boss, the image flattened itself and learned to be quiet, submissive and servile. If the mirror was an abusive stepfather, the image tried to obliterate itself until it could no more and then, swelled up into Medusa’s head. As they say, you can’t reach the unconscious by denying the serpents that guard it. In each, didn’t the mirror establish the face?

[humanmorph]

Day 5 - Waking Up

My favorite sentence is: "The day she knew she was very old, she was suddenly filled with happiness that years ago, she had gotten that tattoo of a -

shoutout to Figure A forever <3 i was so so happy to see them show back up in pzn my favourite minor npc previously only featured in 10 minutes of one episode

[watchoutforintellect]

Careful how you bare yer soul Careful not to bare it at all

Patti Smith, from Woolgathering

[rini-descartes]

Don’t you love my idealism? My hypocrisy? My willingness to sound as loving and naive as possible? At least I know that I don’t know anything at all. I can admit it. Can you? Can you look yourself in the mirror in the morning and admit that you are no different from every other bundle of bones on this planet? And maybe the only things that make you different are your hands, the way you touch things, and what happens to them.

— Zoe Trope, Please Don't Kill the Freshman.

[sadsongbird]

Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

- C.S. Lewis, Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories

[ominous-faechild]

SEMICORRECT QUOTES:

RISING FROM MISFORTUNE

(Get it? Because it's kinda a crossover?)

Tián: (cheerfully and jokingly) “ah, looks like we won't be able to mansplain, manipulate, or manwhore our way outta this one, boys!”

Benji: (half-laughs; amusedly) “Seriously!? But I manwhore my way out of everything! What am I going to do now!?”

Tián: [spares a moment to give him an overdramatic wink and draw out a cartoonishly large sword] “manslaughter.”

The Rest of the Crew: [stunned silent]

(Bonus scene beyond "read more")

Cricket: “I... somebody needs to stop this.” :'D

Flavie: (under her breath) “I don't know, that Tián guy is pretty hot...”

Cricket: (sharply, shocked) “What!?”

Flavie: (meets his eyes; deadpan) “What.”

Zarina: (evenly) “first of all, no.”

Cricket & Flavie: [look to her]

Zarina: (continues, not having stopped speaking) “Secondly...”

Zarina: [sighs heavily, putting her head in her hand]

Zarina: (defeatedly) “... I don't even know if I want to step in.”

Cricket: :'D

Flavie: [amused! But not complaining.]

Cricket: [sighs himself, but then shakes his head and pulls out his spellbook]

Cricket: (tiredly) “Don't worry about it, Captain. I'll take care this.”

Zarina: [just sighs again, hesitantly watching between her fingers—]

Cricket: [heading to Tián & Benji to put a stop to their shenanigans]

Flavie: (slightly obnoxiously) “Sooooooo...” ;DDDDD

Zarina: [hesitantly lifts her head from her hand to look up at her]

Flavie: [winks; amusedly) “You're staying up here to get a good view, too, huh?”

Zarina:

Zarina: [face flushes, but stands up straight—and crosses her arms, as she often does—to give Flavie a slight glare]

Zarina: (sharply) “Absolutely not!”

Flavie: [can't help a shit-eating grin]

Flavie: (teasingly) “oh, sure! So, tell me...”

Zarina: [narrows her eyes further in a much more obvious glare]

Flavie: (overdramatically, drawing out and savoring her words) “Is it Benji? Tián? Or, maybe even... Cricket?” >;DDDD

Zarina: [face only flashed in annoyance at Benji's name, disgusted at Tián's, but... goes empty and unreadable at Cricket's]

Flavie: (playfully) “OOOOOOOOO! The Captain and—”

Zarina: [scoffs, simultaneously turning away, heading to the stairs, and un-crossing an arm to wave it dismissively over her shoulder]

Zarina: (talking over Flavie) “Whatever you think is going on, don't say a word of it to Hugo.”

Zarina: [sets her hand on the stairs' handrail and twists on her heel to meet Flavie's eyes with a sharp, serious expression]

Zarina: (voice hard) “Or else. Understood?”

Flavie: [stunned—]

Flavie: [swallows slightly, but forces an awkward grin, stands at attention, and raises her hand in salute]

Flavie: (voice thick and uneven) “aye, aye, Captain. Wouldn't even dream of it.” ;'D

Zarina: [face softens—a flash of guilt crossing it—but quickly just turns away and hurries to help Cricket]

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