Lindsey B > Lindsey's Quotes

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.”
― Malcolm X

“You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”
― Malcolm X, By Any Means Necessary

“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.”
― Emma Goldman

“The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.”
― Emma Goldman

“Definition: 'Love' is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometres away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope. Statement: This definition, I am told, is subject to interpretation. Obviously, 'love' is a matter of odds. Not many meatbags could make such a shot, and strangely enough, not many meatbags would derive love from it. Yet for me, love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticle, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds...”
― HK-47

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
― Albert Einstein

“Let’s revise the old adage for our times. All that it requires for evil to succeed is that enough lazy, stupid bastards believe everything they’re told.”
― Karen Traviss, Judge

“Don’t think about Laika in orbit. Don’t think about cringe and catastrophe.”
― Ada Limon, Sharks in the Rivers

“My belief system operated on the notion that the good things in my life were a universal hiccup where doom surely loomed.”
― Janet Mock, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“I would have come for you. And if I couldn't walk, I'd crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we'd fight our way out together-knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. We never stop fighting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Crows remember human faces. They remember the people who feed them, who are kind to them. And the people who wrong them too. They don’t forget. They tell each other who to look after and who to watch out for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom

“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
― Emma Lazarus

“They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

“Making each other’s tea was half the reason they had such a happy marriage.”
― Saladin Ahmed, Throne of the Crescent Moon

“You didn’t tell me that living was a choice, and that every day I choose to continue was another victory, another triumph.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Shadowsong

“But I fought this battle every day, fighting upstream against the inevitable, inexorable pull of my own destructive tendencies,”
― S. Jae-Jones, Shadowsong

“Women watched their allies as much as their enemies, if they wished to prevent trouble and keep their power. Especially if all of their subordinates and peers were men. Unfair, perhaps, but practical.”
― Rachel Caine, Smoke and Iron

“Isobel. Isobel, listen. The teapot is of no consequence. I can defeat anyone, at any time.”
― Margaret Rogerson, An Enchantment of Ravens

“Someone’s died,” a young man answered. “Lucky him,” remarked the old man.”
― Delilah S. Dawson, Wicked as They Come

“Art is strange, really. It envelops you in lies, but it also confronts you with such vivid reality.”
― Jessica Cluess, A Sorrow Fierce and Falling

“but only in the same way the world’s smartest earthworm is an expert on Copernican heliocentrism.”
― Jessica Cluess, A Sorrow Fierce and Falling

“women endure
because we aren’t
given any other
choice.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

“Someone tries to betray the High King, murder. Someone gives you a harsh look, murder. Someone disrespects you, murder. Someone ruins your laundry, murder.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King

“nothing ruins Halloween faster than a male Wiccan’s penis.)”
― Lane Moore, How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't