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“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“Do your thing and don't care if they like it.”
― Tina Fey, Bossypants

“He was already thirty, but yet to have a sense of himself as an adult. It just felt to him like he had spent thirty years in the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“What had changed things? What had made the difference?

She had. All by herself.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Everyone, no matter what kind of job he or she has, fantasizes about freaking out at work. How many corporate drones, stuck in a boring staff meeting, have had the sudden urge to jump on top of the conference table and start screaming obscenities? Strip off their clothes? Kiss the woman or man next to them? We all have. How many employees joke about shooting the boss or blowing the place up? I’m not suggesting we do any of these things, mind you, but let’s not kid ourselves; we all have a little murder in our heart.”
― Steve Dublanica, Waiter Rant: Thanks for the Tip-Confessions of a Cynical Waiter

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“Infernal woman, you nearly gave me an apoplexy. They ought to count you among the ten plagues of Egypt!”
― Kristen Callihan, Winterblaze

“Ah!" Journeyman cackled... "Finally! Carefully now, man. If you crack one of my new crystals, I'll hoist you up on a spike!" Grimm cleared his throat calmly. Journeyman squinted over his shoulder. "Ah," he said. "That is, I will report you to... to... the proper person in the chain of command, who will make decisions about discipline that are not mine to make.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“She had never gotten it through her gentle head that there was a time for a soft paw and a time for red claws.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“He is a cat, Miss Lancaster. Asking him such questions is an exercise in futility.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Rowl felt sure that Bridget's fragile feelings would be crushed if he denied her the pleasure of sharing her meat with him.”
― Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass

“Piglets and pawprints!" cried Eatbugs, then paused and looked quickly around. He leaned toward his companions. "Let's be off!" he added, his voice a conspiratorial whisper.”
― Tad Williams, Tailchaser's Song

“But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already”
― Steve Dublanica

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She lived quite alone and whether the fault was hers or whether the fault was theirs I do not know. And a great deal of time went by and she did not speak to a living soul and a great wind of madness howled through her and overturned all her languages. And she forgot Italian, forgot English, forgot Latin, forgot Basque, forgot Welsh, forgot every thing in the world except Cat – and that, it is said, she spoke marvellously well.”
― Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

“Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.”
― Karin Slaughter, Pretty Girls

“My heart pounding, I somehow knocked the tarantula to the ground and used the broom to brush him down our very long steep driveway. With each brush, the tarantula would jump back up, turn, and start to come towards me. Apparently, tarantulas pursue their prey.

Finally, somehow, I was able to sweep it down to the street.

Pumped up on adrenaline and a desire to protect my children (born and unborn), I started my car and set off to finish the job. Convinced it was him or me, I backed up my car and took aim at the stunned tarantula. I could not take a chance that he would crawl back to my house, my home.

When the deed was done, I pulled forward and looked out my window to see if the creature was still moving. I think I saw him flinch. So I threw the car back in reverse and ran over him again, just to make sure. Really sure.

In hindsight, it is possible I overreacted.”
― Kristen Brakeman, Is That The Shirt You're Wearing?: a memoir in essays

“How dare he not give a fuck? What a luxury, the luxury of a man. The luxury of someone who looked at the ravages of time and went, “Eh.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life.”
― Melissa Broder, The Pisces

“It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen’s day, not only seen by the other sex, but seen only in relation to the other sex. And how small a part of a woman’s life is that; and how little can a man know even of that when he observes it through the black or rosy spectacles which sex puts upon his nose.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

“The poet was forced to be passionate or bitter, unless indeed he chose to “hate women,” which meant more often than not that he was unattractive to them.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

“And again I am reminded by dipping into newspapers and novels and biographies that when a woman speaks to women she should have something very unpleasant up her sleeve. Women are hard on women. Women dislike women.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room Of One's Own: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition

“To me, video games are like shoes. But with more pixels and a plot.”
― Annie Bellet, Justice Calling

“Every morning when he woke up it seemed impossible that he could ever consume another drop of alcohol, but that conviction had always evaporated by five o'clock in the afternoon.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“In theory, I’m a Libertarian, but until they find a candidate who didn’t graduate from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College, I declare myself politically agnostic/independent and will hold my nose while I vote a split ticket for whomever I hate the least.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“While I’m happy for everyone who wants a family, I look at the notion of having kids the same way I look at people who get tattoos on their faces, like, “Hoo-boy, that’s permanent.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“When I’m able to slough it off, when it’s not causing physical symptoms or putting me on edge, my anxiety still pops up out of nowhere to spoil nice moments. I fear good things happening because I believe something bad is sure to follow.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“The paradox of living in the safest possible time is that those who suffer from anxiety aren’t hardwired to take the win; we panic when things go too well.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“Shout long enough in capital letters and, eventually, people start to tune you out.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“The saying "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings" is erroneous, because women who are fat are never listened to.”
― Margaret Cho, I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight