Jocelyn > Jocelyn's Quotes

“Travelling tells the world that you're educated, that you're willing to take risks, that you have earned your condescension. But do you know what my apartment has that no other place does? All my stuff.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“Your mom is your blood and bone before your body even knows how to make any.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter: Essays

“Home, somehow, is always the last place you left, and never the place you're in”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“Being surveilled with the intention of assault or rape is practically mundane, it happens so often. It's such an ingrained part of the female experience that it doesn't register as unusual. The danger of it, then, is in its routine, in how normalized it is for a woman to feel monitored, so much so that she might not know she's in trouble until that invisible line is crossed from "typical patriarchy" to "you should run.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“Women are so used to being watched that we don't notice when someone's watching us for the worst reason imaginable.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“It's rarely you who decides there's something wrong with you; instead, you get your cues from someone who is the right combination of bored, cruel, and insecure about themselves to begin with.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“The great irony of growing up is that it's often once you leave your parents' home that you understand them the most.”
― Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter

“All this happened, more or less.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“So It Goes”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like, "Poo-tee-weet?”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he
only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to
cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will
exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can
look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all
the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an
illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a
string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
'When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in a bad
condition in that particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other
moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what
the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is "so it goes.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“There's more to life than what you read in books.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“We are where we have to be just now.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is. Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“On other days we have wars as horrible as anything you've ever seen or read about. There isn't anything we can do about them, so we simply don't look at them. We ignore them. We spend eternity looking at pleasant moments.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five

“Cities really are different. They make a weight on the world, a fear in the fabric of reality.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Libraries are safe places.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Home isn't where the heart is; it's wherever the wind feels right.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The City We Became

“Her heart didn’t break once. It had broken multiple times over the last year—over the last decade, really—and each time she’d started to put the puzzle back together, to reconstruct her heart and soul with metaphorical superglue, they would shatter again. The pieces were getting smaller, less recognizable, more difficult to reconnect with each blow.”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“She was always going to jump into this lake, no matter how dark or dangerous it might turn out to be; she was too intrigued by its shimmering surface to even consider turning away. There was no world in which she wouldn’t dive headfirst in love with Rory Hughes. This was the only way.”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“The fact that people like this just fell out of our universe - just stopped existing - was so scary, so cold.”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

“How do you keep your feet on the ground knowing your world is not one person - one brilliant, effervescent, incredibly kind, loving person - lighter?”
― Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide