“Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from The Naturals
“You feel stupid. Doesn't mean you are.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from The Naturals
“We need to talk," Dean said.
"Whatever you have to say," Michael drawled, "You can say in front of me."
I gave Michael a look.
"Whatever you have to say, you can say in front of me, unless Cassie wishes to speak to you privately, in which case I completely respect her right to do so," Michael corrected himself.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from The Naturals
“Everything you said or did was a data point you put out there in the world.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from The Naturals
“something about the curve of his lips was more intimate than any touch.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, quote from The Naturals
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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“In fact the English word ‘demon’ is full of a value judgement that is wrongly attributed to the words rakshasa and asura.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, quote from Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
“She knew what she wanted, got what she wanted, and did so with a measure of grace that made you realize that she operated on another level.”
― quote from White Girl Problems
“Pragmatist William James put the matter with characteristic realism: Atheists are like people who live on a frozen lake surrounded by cliffs that offer no means of escape. They know that the ice is melting and the inevitable day is coming when they must plunge ignominiously into the water. This prospect is as meaningless as it is horrifying. The Christian too must endure the chill and the inevitability of death, but his faith enables him to endure them much better. When it comes to suffering, James writes, “Religion makes easy and felicitous what is in any case necessary.” When it comes to death, he adds, Christianity offers at least the prospect of the afterlife and the chance of salvation. “No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of chance makes the difference . . . between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.”7”
― Dinesh D'Souza, quote from What's So Great About Christianity
“Finally, the Pirahã language is notoriously difficult because it lacks things that many other languages have, especially in the way that it puts sentences together. For example, the language has no comparatives, so I couldn’t find expressions like this is big/that is bigger. I couldn’t find color words—no simple words for red, green, blue, and so on, only descriptive phrases, like that is like blood for red or that is not ripe yet for green.”
― Daniel L. Everett, quote from Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
“We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.”
― Susan Sontag, quote from Against Interpretation and Other Essays
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