Imogen > Imogen's Quotes

“Whoa dude. My belt came undone when you said that.”
― Liz Prince

“Without a bellyful of liquor, all I am is a woman who cracks stupid jokes to make up for being shy.”
― Katie Crouch, Girls in Trucks

“I do not mean to say that I viewed those desires of mine that deviated from accepted standards as normal and orthodox; nor do I mean that I labored under the mistaken impression that my friends possessed the same desires. Surprisingly enough, I was so engrossed in tales of romance that I devoted all my elegant dreams to thoughts of love between man and maid, and to marriage, exactly as though I were a young girl who knew nothing of the world. I tossed my love for Omi onto the rubbish heap of neglected riddles, never once searching deeply for its meaning. Now when I write the word love, when I write affection, my meaning is totally different from my understanding of the words at that time. I never even dreamed that such desires as I had felt toward Omi might have a significant connection with the realities of my "life.”
― Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask

“What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.”
― Thomas Mann

“Dudes in suits and politicians didn't make sense to my 18-year-old brain. All I wanted to do was be awesome.”
― Ronen Kauffman, NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, GOODBYE Bands, Dirty Basements, and the Search for Self

“Dry-humping, I believe it's called.”
― Michael Muhammad Knight, Taqwacores: A Novel

“Which is it," she asked. "Is it CLIToris or clotORis?"

I didn't know. Why didn't I know? "It may depend on which you have," I said.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“Because the world itself is now unfathomable, the only complexities that really count are small moments of domestic life that combine to trigger deep emotion. There is no longer any way of being poor in any interesting way in major cities like Manhattan”
― Chris Kraus, Torpor

“Dig if you will a picture:”
― Victor LaValle, The Devil in Silver

“His name is Robert Paulson.”
― Victor LaValle, The Devil in Silver