LP > LP's Quotes

“It's a very strange reality when you can't trust yourself. There is no foundation for anything, the faith I might have had in normal things like gravity or logic or love is gone, because my mind might not be reading them correctly.”
― Julia Walton , Words on Bathroom Walls

“Being me is actually pretty lonely”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

“Why shouldn't writers be able to go bonkers and still stay sane?”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.”
― William Carlos Williams

“I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“America, I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“The luxury of one class is counterbalanced by the indigence of another.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“People like us in situations like this become hashtags, but they rarely get justice. I think we all wait for that one time though, that one time when it ends right.”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

“Everyone dreamed, only some forgot.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven Boys

“A question I am often asked: What does women’s participation in numbers on the bench add to our judicial system? It is true, as Jeanne Coyne of Minnesota's Supreme Court famously said: at the end of the day, a wise old man and a wise old woman will reach the same decision. But it is also true that women, like persons of different racial groups and ethnic origins, contribute what the late Fifth Circuit Judge Alvin Rubin described as “a distinctive medley of views influenced by differences in biology, cultural impact, and life experience.” Our system of justice is surely richer for the diversity of background and experience of its judges. It was poorer when nearly all of its participants were cut from the same mold.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words

“For both men and women the first step in getting power is to become visible to others, and then to put on an impressive show. . . . As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsburg, My Own Words: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“The way to stop discrimination on race is to stop discriminating on race”
― Ruth Bader Ginsberg

“As you leave here and proceed along life's paths, try to leave tracks. Use the education you have received to help repair tears in your communities. Take part in efforts to move those communities, your nation, and our world closer to the conditions needed to ensure the health and well-being of your generation and generations following your own.”
― Ruth Bader Ginsberg

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“I like to think my upbringing has made me pragmatic and thick-skinned, a coper and a realist”
― Sue Black, All That Remains: A Life in Death

“With all our twenty-first-century sophistication, why do we still opt to take cover behind familiar, safe walls of conformity and denial, rather than opening up tot he idea that maybe death is not the demon we fear? She does not need to be lurid, brutal or rude. She can be silent, peaceful and merciful. Perhaps the answer is we don't trust her because we don't choose to get to know her, to take the trouble to in the course of our lives to try to understand her. If we did, we might learn to acccept her as an integral and fundamentally necessary part of our life's process.”
― Sue Black, All That Remains: A Life in Death

“Death is coming, and if it wasn't today, it might tomorrow”
― Sue Black, All That Remains: A Life in Death

“Fear of death is often a justifiable fear of the unknown; of circumstances beyond our personal control which we cannot know and for which we cannot prepare.”
― Sue Black, All That Remains: A Life in Death

“All in all, the dead are a whole lot less trouble than the living”
― Sue Black, All That Remains: A Life in Death

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
― Dr. Seuss

“it scarce hath been heard there were ever two men that dreamed alike”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“A dream is nothing else but a bubbling scum or froth of the fancy, which the day hath left undigested; or an after-feast made of the fragments of idle imaginations”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“Dreaming is no other than groaning, while sleep our surgeon hath us in cure”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“A dream is nothing else but the echo of our conceits in the day”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night

“His soul hath left his body; for why, it is flying after these airy incorporate courtly promises, and glittering painted allurements, which when they vanish to nothing, it likewise vanished with them”
― Thomas Nashe, The Terrors of the Night