“Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“I don't think murder is an appropriate reaction to disappointment.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have.”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
“People might think that five-year-olds can't be cruel, but I have some strong evidence to the contrary".”
― Vera Brosgol, quote from Anya's Ghost
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Born place: Moscow, Russian Federation
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“If only she could be bold enough, and brave enough, to claim the things she wanted: love, a purpose, a life. But could she be?”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from These Shallow Graves
“What is it that causes us to fall in love? We are met with those first, initial glimpses-- a kind of curiosity, a longing for that which is both familiar and unknown in the other. And then comes the surprise of discovery; we share certain aspirations, certain appreciations, and that which is different excites us. Before each other, we are moved to bravery and we come to reveal more and more of ourselves, and when we do, those very traits that caused us some embarrassment or shame become beautiful in ways we did not understand before, and the entire world becomes more beautiful for it. There are, too, those intimate and nearly primitive stirrings, the scent of the neck, the delicious tremble of skin and breath. Yet for all their pleasures, they are as tenuous as light and air, and demand no fidelity.
And then there is this: Does not love depend on some belief in the future, some expectation beyond the delight of the moment? We fall in love because we imagine a certain life together. We will marry. We will laugh and dance together. We will have children.
When expectation falls to ruins, what is there left for love?”
― Eowyn Ivey, quote from To The Bright Edge of the World
“Strictly speaking, the Patrol is not a military organization at all.” “Sir?” “I know, I know—you are trained to use weapons, you are under orders, you wear a uniform. But your purpose is not to fight, but to prevent fighting, by every possible means. The Patrol is not a fighting organization; it is the repository of weapons too dangerous to entrust to military men.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, quote from Space Cadet
“A wave. Raw. Sadness washes over me as I'm dismissed. I don't move, I look at the screen. I want to run to you, crawl up inside you back into your womb. Rewrite a history where this time you'd love me normally. Shiny and new.”
― Ali Land, quote from Good Me, Bad Me
“The transition of food to being an industrial product really has been a fundamental problem,” Willett said. “First, the actual processing has stripped away the nutritional value of the food. Most of the grains have been converted to starches. We have sugar in concentrated form, and many of the fats have been concentrated and then, worst of all, hydrogenated, which creates trans-fatty acids with very adverse effects on health.”
― Michael Moss, quote from Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
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