Isabel Kaplan > Quotes

“I have seen what working within the system gets you. It gets you trapped in a building that should be burned down.”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“Nobody tells you which choices are the ones that will matter. You don't notice the doors closing until it's too late.”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“Sometimes, I return home from work or drinks under a cloud of loneliness, longing for someone, though I don’t know who. I try to ignore the aches; I try to be patient.”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“To act on my principles I need power but to get power I need to abandon my principles, it’s a trap”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“I want to be in control. I want to be controlled. I want to control who controls me. I want to understand my wants and why I want them. I am only now beginning to suspect that all the time I've spent trying to make myself desirable has come at the expense of thinking about what I might myself desire.”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“What if I've already sacrificed my principles and now I’m just trying to make myself feel better about doing it?”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“In order to get the power, I need to get the people in power believe I deserve it which means acting in ways they approve of and that’s how I end up becoming complicit.”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“He texts me: My roommate cooked four jumbo hot dogs for breakfast, but then he only ate two. I wish I could tell my eighteen-year-old self: This is it. This is what’s behind the locked doors of the Lampoon Castle. I read the text out loud to Gemma. “He just wants to talk to you,” she says. “That’s the most interesting thing he could think of?” I say.”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW

“Didn’t ask to be born under the patriarchy, but as long as we’re here”
― Isabel Kaplan, NSFW