"What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur."
— Jeff Lindsay (Dearly Devoted Dexter)

"and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid

So it is better to speak"
— Audre Lorde

"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."
— Audre Lorde

"Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people."
— Audre Lorde

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."
— Chuck Palahniuk

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
— Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)