Em > Em's Quotes

“By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs.”
― Donna Haraway

“The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world; it has no truck with bisexuality, pre-oedipal symbiosis, unalienated labour, or other seductions to organic wholeness through a final appropriation of all the powers of the parts into a higher unity.”
― Donna J. Haraway

“Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.”
― Donna J. Haraway

“Il faut se décider; ou bien on vit avec quelqu'un, ou bien on le désire. On ne peut pas désirer ce qu'on a, c'est contre nature.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'amour dure trois ans - Le roman suivi du scénario du film

“Première catastrophe inéluctable : la Terre va mourir. Deuxième certitude absolue : je vais mourir aussi. La question du jour est : qui disparaîtra le premier ? La Terre ou moi ? Je préfèrerais la Terre, car cela reviendrait au même pour moi. Quitte à crever, autant que ce soit en même temps que les autres. J'espère la fin du monde, par narcissisme. Peut être tous les hommes sont-ils comme moi cela expliquerait pourquoi ils cherchent par tous les moyens à déclencher l'Apocalypse : pour ne pas mourir seuls.”
― Frédéric Beigbeder, L'Égoïste romantique

“It’s no good telling tales without a drink.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Do you remember what it was to be young?" She asked. "Every trouble would be solved by sundown, and every dawn you'd have a new chance to remake the world.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, The Beautiful Ones

“The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Whatever we do, someone is going to take the time to say it's shit.”
― Virginie Despentes

“C'est quand même épatant, et pour le moins moderne, un dominant qui vient chialer que le dominé n'y met pas assez du sien...”
― Virginie Despentes, King Kong théorie

“L'ancienneté, chez les punks, était signe de crédibilité et conférait prestige et avantages divers. Un des rares points communs entre punk rock et fonction publique.”
― Virginie Despentes, Bye Bye Blondie

“It was easy to kiss someone when it didn’t matter; it was more difficult when it might be meaningful.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“...she was trapped between competing desires, a desire for a more meaningful connection and the desire to never change. She wished for eternal youth and endless merriment.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“Dreams are for mortals."
"Why?"
"Because they must die.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“There was sadness in her, of course, but she didn't wish to crack like fine china either. She could not wither away. In the world of the living, one must live. And had this not been her wish? To live. Truly live.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoiles.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire