Raquel > Raquel's Quotes

“Athena thinks she is exceptional at suffering, but actually the only thing she is really good at is procrastinating.”
― Anelise Chen, So Many Olympic Exertions

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.”
― Bill Watterson

“I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.”
― Ronald Reagan

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.”
― Dorothy Parker

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Don't look at me in that tone of voice.”
― Dorothy Parker

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.”
― Randall Munroe

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“Hope is a discipline.”
― Mariame Kaba

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren

“Do they have this word, I?’ “As a matter of fact they have three forms of it: I-below-a-temperature-of-six-degrees-centigrade, I-between-six-and-ninety-three-degrees-centigrade, and I-above-ninety-three.” The Butcher looked confused. “It has to do with their reproductive process,” Rydra explained. “When the temperature is below six degrees they’re sterile. They can only conceive when the temperature is between six and ninety-three, but to actually give birth, they have to be above ninety-three.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17

“I always thought…you were the kind one. But there’s a difference, you know. Between not being actively cruel—and never standing up for someone”
― Mattie Lubchansky, Boys Weekend

“It’s not just about what you call me. It’s about recognizing who I am--And getting stuff wrong doesn’t make you an asshole, but never getting it right sort of does!”
― Mattie Lubchansky, Boys Weekend