“The wheel may be turning, but the hamster is DEAD!”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“And, dear God? Thank you for creating Daniel in all his sweet-ass hotness. That’s probably sacrilege, but I mean it most sincerely. Amen.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“You know what I love about you? You can go from cussing sailor to poet laureate in three seconds without batting an eyelash. It's quite impressive.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I wish you and I weren’t so grossed out by each other. We could’ve been great.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I thought I had the ability to mind-fuck people, but today I’d met my match.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“A reader who’s been prepared to make enormous sacrifices to secure someone’s love would not find his actions incomprehensible,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I may have lost the academic plot, but my girly bits were definitely taking notes.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“love that can be calculated or quantified is meaningless or lacking true value,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I love how we can always pick up where we left off,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Nobody uses “whom” properly. How the hell was he able to do it when he was half wasted?”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“According to Julie, some men were wholly incapable of coping with smart women.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“The poster child for decorum was actually being sexually suggestive.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Thank you, Miss Harper, for taking us straight to the gutter,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Yeah, I was totally missing the boat on this one. How I wished I wanted Matt sometimes. Life would be so much easier.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Oh my God,” I said in a hushed voice. You have to speak quietly when you’re in that kind of room.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“For some must watch, while some must sleep: Thus runs the world away.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“though this be madness, yet there’s method in’t.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Speak, fair; but speak fair words, or else be mute:”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“The odds is gone, and there is nothing left remarkable beneath the visiting moon,”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“I have seen a medicine That’s able to breathe life into a stone…”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
“These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe.”
― Georgina Guthrie, quote from The Weight of Words
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“He knew and accepted for the first time that things would not be different tomorrow. Or ever. Things got different for some people. But for some they did not. There were a lot of things you could do though. One of them was to go nuts trying to pretend things would someday be different.”
― Harry Crews, quote from A Feast of Snakes
“The usual procedure adopted by the critic is to imagine how wonderful everything would be if only he had his own way. In his dreams he eliminates every will opposed to his own by raising himself, or someone whose will coincides exactly with his, to the position of absolute master of the world. Everyone who preaches the right of the stronger considers himself as the stronger. He who espouses the institution of slavery never stops to reflect that he himself could be a slave. He who demands restrictions on the liberty of conscience demands it in regard to others, and not for himself. He who advocates an oligarchic form of government always includes himself in the oligarchy, and he who goes into ecstasies at the thought of enlightened despotism or dictatorship is immodest enough to allot to himself, in his daydreams, the role of the enlightened despot or dictator, or, at least, to expect that he himself will become the despot over the despot or the dictator over the dictator. Just as no one desires to see himself in the position of the weaker, of the oppressed, of the overpowered, of the negatively privileged, of the subject without rights; so, under socialism, no one desires himself otherwise than in the role of the general director or the mentor of the general director. In the dream and wish fantasies of socialism there is no other life that would be worth living.”
― Ludwig von Mises, quote from Liberalism: The Classical Tradition
“Those who do not run away from our pains but touch them with compassion bring healing and new strength. The paradox indeed is that the beginning of healing is in the solidarity with the pain. In”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, quote from Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life
“Nothing strikes me as truly weird,” Jilly told him. “There’s only stuff I haven’t figured out yet.”
― Charles de Lint, quote from The Very Best of Charles de Lint
“peculiarity of golf, as of love, that it temporarily changes the natures of its victims;”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from A Damsel in Distress
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