Jennifer Linsky > Jennifer's Quotes

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly

“Writing, it was like a heavenly balm, it was like the flowing out of deep waters, it was like the lifting of a load from the spirit; it brought with it a sense of relief, of assuagement. One could say things in writing without feeling self-conscious, without feeling shy and ashamed and foolish -- one could even write of the days of young Nelson, smiling a very little as one did so.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“My dear, don't be foolish, there's nothing strange about you, someday you may meet a man you can love. And supposing you don't, well, what of it, Stephen? Marriage isn't the only career for a woman.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“How come he didn't notice it earlier? Ah, probably because it was behind Xera's back while her voluptuous breasts were, as expected, on her chest.”
― Neven Iliev, Morningwood

“A mirror has a clean light that reflects everything as it is. It symbolizes the stainless mind of the kami, and at the same time is regarded as a sacred symbolic embodiment of the fidelity of the worshipper towards the kami.”
― Sokyo Ono, Shinto: The Kami Way

“For a long time, when I was a little younger, I thought that was how every girl saw other girls— this mix between beauty and awe and curiosity, a thin layer of lust just underneath. Took until I was fourteen to realize that no, the way I thought about other girls was a little different.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, How To Make A Wish

“And so blinded was she by those gleams of glory which the stars fling into the eyes of young lovers, that she saw perfection where none existed; saw a patient endurance that was purely fictitious, and conceived of a loyalty far beyond the limits of Angela's nature.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“The ambassador was part of the special remedial dating program,” Jeeves explained. “All of the other species on the station sign up with a dating service to find their best match, but some humans can’t coherently describe what they want for breakfast, much less for the rest of their lives.”
― E.M. Foner, Wanderers On Union Station

“[Objectivity] cannot exist without mental flexibility, since none of us is objective by nature. We all have opinions, the roots of which are spread out far and often are hidden in darkness. To have an opinion is both our right and our duty. To change this opinion becomes an intellectual obligation if the opinion proves incompatible with the result of the search.”
― J. F. Blumrich

“Oh, Stephen, Stephen, get used to the world -- it's a horrible place full of horrible people, but it's all there is, and we live in it, don't we? So we've just got to do as the world does, my Stephen.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“A pretty humanoid face with honest eyes and a warm smile would enable a computer to be much more persuasive than if it was presented as a bug-eyed monster.”
― Anthony Berglas, When Computers Can Think: The Artificial Intelligence Singularity

“For she thought that she glimpsed through the dust of the years, a faint flicker of the girl who had lingered in the lanes when the young man Williams and she had been courting. And looking at Williams as he stood before her twitching and bowed, she thought that she glimpsed a faint flicker of the youth, very stalwart and comely, who had bent his head downwards and sideways as he walked and whispered and kissed in the lanes.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“People that have weak moral values tend to break the rules, and eventually they either get caught and are severely punished, or they become corporate executives.”
― Anthony Berglas, When Computers Can Think: The Artificial Intelligence Singularity

“There were a bunch of weirdos skulking around a dark warehouse just below her. As far as she knew, good guys generally didn't skulk. Skulking was not a good guy kind of word.”
― Alex Ziebart, Lady Superior

“The eyes themselves were the eyes of a writer, always a little tired in expression.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“It's not a proper adventure until someone falls screaming off a cliff.”
― Kaia Sønderby, Damsel to the Rescue

“This house had survived for many, many years. It had copper pipes that reached down into the earth like roots, its woodwork had taught its stonework how to breathe in exchange for lessons in strength, and the ironwork that chased the eaves and climbed the walls and curled along the windows danced in the sunset.”
― Kate Milford, Ghosts of Greenglass House

“My brain was going overtime imagining all the horrible ways this could end that involved me feeling like I was eternally unattractive and unlovable.”
― A.E. Dooland

“Corporations were society's cockroaches: they always survived.”
― Tom DeLonge, Chasing Shadows

“Life had already taught Stephen one thing, and that was that never must human beings be allowed to suspect that a creature fears them. The fear of the one is a spur to the many, for the primitive hunting instinct dies hard -- it is better to face a hostile world than to turn one's back for a moment.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“An Angst is the proper word for a group of vampires. Crows have murders, wolves have packs, vampires have angsts.”
― Andrew Seiple, Stuff and Nonsense

“Hours passed, like a kidney stone.”
― T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys

“A few dauntless souls even enter the chemist's -- that shamelessly anatomical chemist's, whose wares do not figure in school manuals on the practical uses of rubber.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Love is the sweetest monotony that was ever conceived of by the Creator.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“What remained? Loneliness, or worse still, far worse because it so deeply degraded the spirit, a life of perpetual subterfuge, of guarded opinions and guarded actions, of lies of omission if not of speech, of becoming an accomplice in the world's injustice by maintaining at all times a judicious silence, making and keeping the friends one respected, on false pretences, because if they knew they would turn aside, even the friends one respected.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness