The Golden Girl Quotes

“Any sharp glance at them often bounced off from a hard, reflective surface. It was not the appearance that needed to be evaluated but how they cornered the market. What was fascinating was their incredible individualistic resolve that often made them social leaders in whatever small group they gathered around themselves.

They did not join clubs or interest groups among the girls, rather they formed the nucleus of their own gatherings. They were the suns around which lesser satellites revolved, dispensing their light and warmth to all suppliants, yet not seeking praise for this. It was enough to shine and be appreciated for that alone. (Chapter 1)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Golden Girl

“Within the networks of human consciousness an underlying sense of reality pervades the mind amid the fog of distractions. It was the only way to focus thought, shape it to a similitude of the world outside, and interact effectively enough to ensure survival.

To imbalance this perception was to seek the pathways to madness, confusion and the oblivion of death.

Within taverns across the land men and women struggled with this imbalance by means of the noble art of befuddlement. Simply put when it all got too much they did their very best to get blind drunk. (Chapter 5)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Golden Girl

“Miss Tree looked at the thing on the desk. It pulsated a little, as if undecided whether to shimmer or merely glisten contentedly. Then it flashed in surprise as she picked it up and poised it in a shaft of sunlight that had travelled with remarkable speed through the fronds of pine on a distant crest.

'If one might capture and display pleasure in a form other than through the psychic physicality of human emotions it would look something like this.'

Between trembling finger and thumb colours without name or number danced in narrow confines, chasing in silent games around and through and around again in a looping tangle of ecstasy. (Chapter 9)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Golden Girl

“There was a curious femininity about him. He eschewed straight lines for folded fabrics in subdued rainbow colours. Certain shades were often deliberately missed out giving a subconscious sense of dynamic incompleteness. This was understandable for Doctor Dazzle was one of the most respected fashion aesthetes in Frangea and would never be seen in public without some carefully crafted flaw to create outrage. (Chapter 1)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Golden Girl

“Can a thing without life influence its own destiny?

Or does the greater universe in all its interconnected completeness, by a general consent, decide the fate of each small part of itself.”
― Martyn X Brown, The Golden Girl

“Passages through the inner mind are often carpeted with disparate floor tiles that distract from a clear and cogent path. Muddled thinking gets tangled like knotted string, but when the tiles give way to a slippery shiny surface so polished it dazzles, there is no escaping the slide into madness. Unless that madness opens a long closed door into the rational lumber room of considered thoughts. (Chapter 5)”
― Martyn X Brown, The Golden Girl