Misadventures Quotes

“Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure..”
― Amos Bronson Alcott

“In retrospect, I didn’t really want to be a slut. What I wanted and needed was a therapist who would consent to fucking me, but I doubted my parents’ insurance would have covered that. I had a lot to figure out for myself and I did that by making poor decisions that summer. If some wise, authoritative adult could simply have explained why I wanted to do these things and then done some with me, I think I would have refrained from most of my sexual misadventures...”
― Valentine Glass, Between Kay and You: A Bisexual Girl's Cumming-of-Age Confession

“How language changes - remember when woke just meant you were awake, social media was a gossip page in the local rag, LGBTIQ were just random letters of the alphabet and "sick" meant you were unwell?”
― JOHN MIKKELSEN, Don't Call Me Nev

“It started, as many disasters do, with a long weekend in North Yorkshire.”
― Tom Cartledge, SaddleSore: From England to India