Janet Turpin Myers > Quotes

“If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“Climate change is caused by us. We're committing terracide. Or perhaps matricide was the better term.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, the last year of confusion

“Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, the last year of confusion

“I doubt I would use the word ‘casualty’. There is nothing casual about killing.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world, could he have possibly imagined that all these years later, I would be here in my office imagining us imagining him?”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“Everybody knows, a humungous thing happened on Sunday, July 20th, 1969 at exactly 4:17E.D.T. The 'Eagle' has landed. Bingo. Just like that. Man became an alien.”
― Janet Turpin Myers

“Such is the dilemma of the atheist. Who to thank? It’s a terrible condition, to feel one’s heart swelling with the wonders of our world and yet have nobody to thank for it. It makes a man feel thwarted.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, the last year of confusion

“Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“Blessing Number One. Thank you for getting old because it means you are getting to live.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, the last year of confusion

“If we can progress from arrowheads to the internet, why can’t we progress from violence to peace?”
― Janet Turpin Myers

“One cannot seek the unknown in known places.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Love Watching Madness

“As everybody knows, a humungous thing happened on Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at exactly 4:17:41 E.D.T. The 'Eagle' has landed. Bingo. Just like that. Man became an alien.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“Thank you for annoying neighbours, for they allow us to practise our ability to love.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, the last year of confusion

“I’ve always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“A man who crosses the line is often considered mad,”
― Janet Turpin Myers

“How can growing up really be about falling down?”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“A man who crosses the line is often considered mad.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Love Watching Madness

“All is Change. Eternal Progress. No death.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Love Watching Madness

“I learned that adults were not soaring gods, but rather back-yard birds with broken wingtips.
When you are thirteen, about to free-fall into the real world, discovering the broken wingtips is terrifying.”
― Janet Turpin Myers

“The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming