“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
“We are not saying that Evolution can't exist, only that it is guided by His Noodly Appendage.”
― quote from The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
“So, don’t believe anyone who says that since nature is based on a struggle for life, we need to live like this as well. Many animals survive not by eliminating each other or keeping everything for themselves, but by cooperating and sharing. This applies most definitely to pack hunters, such as wolves or killer whales, but also to our closest relatives, the primates.”
― Frans de Waal, quote from The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
“Love you,” Bits says. “More than all the poop in the toilet?” I ask. Peter heaves a sigh. But you’ve got to play to your audience, and my audience is amused by potty words. It sends her into a coughing spell, but she’s smiling. I wanted that to be the last thing I saw.”
― Sarah Lyons Fleming, quote from All the Stars in the Sky
“No matter how deep in disgrace, a human being IS human, after all.”
― quote from Autobiography of a Geisha
“This understanding floats on the surface of Jija's mind for the rest of the day after Renthree leaves. The truth is beneath the surface, a Leviathan waiting to uncurl, but the waters of his thoughts are placid for now. Denial is powerful.”
― N.K. Jemisin, quote from The Obelisk Gate
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