Evan > Evan's Quotes

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
― Khaled Hosseini

“Clarity is like casting light. Clarity allows us to see better and eases the path of understanding. And just as one light source need not deny the illumination of another but can add to it, the understanding gained through one explanation can stand to gain from another, even if it is different in approach. The truth is more exclusive...”
― Cyrus Panjvani, Buddhism: A Philosophical Approach

“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.”
― Dave Eggers

“The thing about rights is they're not actually supposed to be voted on. That's why they're called rights.”
― Rachel Maddow

“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“Tenderness and ferocity are essential for a woman journeying far from home.”
― Hong Ying, Good Children of the Flower

“When someone with the authority of a teacher describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.”
― Adrienne Rich