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“Okay, yes, I am a bit of a geek. I enjoy escapist entertainment. Listen, I’d rather watch a bunch of elves and wizards trying to save Middle Earth from the forces of evil than, I dunno, the Bachelorette or the Real Housewives of wherever getting their butt fat injected into their lips.”
― Meagan Brothers, Weird Girl and What's His Name

“What was the truth? I wished the truth was some fixed, solid little box I could explain and describe and understand. But the truth was this wobbly, gelled thing. I had this idea of my heart as this separate being that just spilled over everywhere, consuming whatever fell in its path.”
― Meagan Brothers, Weird Girl and What's His Name

“Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.”
― Mina Holmes, "Small Bump" Songs of my Selfie

“I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.”
― Constance Renfrow, Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Stories

“I don't want her to see how I had hoped to pity her -- how I had thought, maybe, I was meant to.”
― Constance Renfrow, "The Edge of Happiness" Songs of my Selfie

“I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.”
― Martha Stewart

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”
― Alan Watts

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts

“Astrology is for those bored by astronomy, but fascinated with themselves.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Celestial Mechanics: A Tale for a Mid-Winter Night

“Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)”
― Peter Carlaftes

“The holy one reveals,​
The demon child conceals.
By the twins, the soul temple’s key be obtained
To unlock the way to the land untamed.
Goddess of dark and soulless night,
Open the gate as Lunella loses sight.
Life of the loved one, key to the dark,
Eternal darkness, universal war.
Loved one’s life for the gate to Sheol.
Complete the cycle for the savior of old.​”
― Rishab Borah, The Door to Inferna

“The point of creating futures is to get people to imagine what they want and don’t want to happen down the road – and maybe do something about it.”
― Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time

“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed. My mother paid a high price for caring so much, yet being able to do so little about it. In this way, she led me toward am activist place where she herself could never go.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Peter shrugs again. God, she is sick of his boyish shrugs, his boyish grins, his boyish everything because he will never grow up.”
― Kelly Ann Jacobson, Tink and Wendy

“But what was an immortal life without a moment of happiness?
No life at all." _Tink”
― Kelly Ann Jacobson, Tink and Wendy

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
― William W. Purkey