Sarah A-F > Sarah's Quotes

“I cried for it all and wondered why so few songs were written about cats.”
― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day

“She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Fear is a reasonable response to life.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“Troy and I loved each other. We called it 'unconditional love', which was true. Once conditions arose, the love dissipated.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“It's not the dreams.
It's this love of you
that grows in me
malignant.”
― Jack Gilbert

“So, if an octopus is this smart," Steve asked Bill, "what other animals are out there that could be this smart--that we don't think of as being sentient and having personality and memories and all these things?”
― Sy Montgomery

“Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

“And were they still like that, she wondered--these new girls, this new generation? Did they still feel one thing and do another? Did they still only want to be wanted? Were they still objects of desire instead of--as Howard might put it--desiring subjects?”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“I'm sorry that it was this way, Mom. Not sorry like an apology. I'm sorry as in sorrow.”
― Joseph Fink, Welcome to Night Vale

“For their size, crows are among the brainiest organisms on Earth, outclassing not only other birds (with the possible exception of parrots), but also most mammals.”
― Candace Savage, Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World

“She has, however, noticed one important difference between crows and us: their families are generally more peaceful than ours sometimes are. No matter what the provocation, family members usually work out their differences without violence or any other signs of overt aggression.”
― Candace Savage, Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World

“Your body represents the Goddess and I want you to start thinking of your body as a separate, female entity that deserves your worship and respect.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Having ‘no willpower’, actually means you’re connecting and listening to your body when it calls. It means that when your body wants to rebel against your rules you’re able to hear her loud and clear, and you want to listen to her. We are not supposed to be following rules and disconnecting emotionally from our body.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Life is short. Don’t miss out on 95 per cent of your life just to weigh 5 per cent less.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“When we chase a body. When we chase a goal weight. A dress size. A physique. It’s not the body itself we truly desire. It is the feeling.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“If there is one lesson you take from this entire book please let it be to pay attention to these feelings.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“If you find yourself comparing your abilities, your work or your body to another woman, first observe and acknowledge what’s happening. Then calmly ask yourself, ‘What am I feeling, why has this been brought up and where has it come from?’ What in this other woman has triggered you? What parts of you are feeling vulnerable or threatened by her presence that you can make sense of? This is not about the woman. She is just being herself. It is about you. It’s highly likely that the parts that you feel triggered by, the parts that are making you compare yourself, are parts that you already have inside of you.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Run towards anything or anyone who makes you feel like you are coming home to YOURSELF.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Not making yourself a priority always has an effect on your health. Once you fall into the bad habit of not making yourself a priority, your eating habits can decline, you stop working out and looking after yourself and even start drinking less water and more coffee.”
― Melissa Wells, The Goddess Revolution: Food and Body Freedom for Life

“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn’t dissatisfied with mine here at all.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I got up right away because I was hungry, but Marie told me I hadn’t kissed her since that morning. It was true, and yet I had wanted to. “Come into the water,” she said. We ran and threw ourselves into the first little waves. We swam a few strokes and she reached out and held on to me. I felt her legs wrapped around mine and I wanted her.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I would have liked to have tried explaining to him cordially, almost affectionately, that I had never been able to truly feel remorse for anything. My mind was always on what was coming next, today or tomorrow.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“There was a worried little smile on her face. But my heart felt nothing, and I couldn’t even return her smile.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“I too have read his version of the facts. Like you and millions of others. And everyone got the picture, right from the start: He had a man’s name; my brother had the name of an incident. He could have called him “Two P.M.,” like that other writer who called his black man “Friday.”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“Good God, how can you kill someone and then take even his own death away from him?”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“That’s the best proof of our absurd existence, my dear friend: Nobody’s granted a final day, just an accidental interruption in his life.”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“She lied not from a desire to deceive but in order to correct reality and mitigate the absurdity that struck her world and mine.”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“But Musa’s body will remain a mystery. There’s not a word in the book about it. That’s denial of a shockingly violent kind, don’t you think? As soon as the shot is fired, the murderer turns around, heading for a mystery he considers worthier of interest than the Arab’s life.”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“Why is it forbidden down here and promised up there? Drunken driving. Maybe God doesn’t want humanity to drink while it’s driving the universe to its place, holding on to the steering wheel of heaven”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“But no, he didn’t name him, because if he had, my brother would have caused the murderer a problem with his conscience: You can’t easily kill a man when he has a given name.”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation