"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." - Yogi Berra
“She'll sting you one day,
Oh, ever so gently,
so you hardly ever feel it.
'til you fall dead.”
― The Grimm Brothers
“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― W.B. Yeats
“Sometimes, if you’re lucky, you meet a stranger who holds the piece of you that has been missing.”
― Sejal Badani, Trail of Broken Wings
“Mother used to say that however miserable one is, there’s always something to be thankful for. And each morning, when the sky brightened and light began to flood my cell, I agreed with her.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger
“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed,
Everybody knows that the war is over,
Everybody knows the good guys lost.”
― Leonard Cohen, The Leonard Cohen Collection
“I am not going to sit around sweating my ass off just so men can feel more comfortable. It’s not my responsibility to not turn them on. It’s their responsibility to not be an asshole.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou
“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
― mahatma gandhi
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― haruki murakami
From the front cover of Viz.
Tray: What’s the first thing you’re goin’ t’ do after lockdown San?
San: I might just have a quiet night in watchin’ telly.
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”
― Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings
“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt whitman
“Standing behind predators makes prey of us all.”
― DaShanne Stokes
“So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
"Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
"What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
"No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
“It’s one thing to deconstruct and analyze and condemn the institutions of patriarchy and their flaws.
It’s another one to feel their bruises on your skin, and their grasping hands pulling your hair and covering your mouth as you scream.”
― Alice Minium
