Dewitt Selvera > Dewitt's Quotes

“I sat there in the lobby with a 7Up and a hog-tied Japanese nymphomaniac locked in my room”
― Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

“The computer began to titter. ‘Well it’s a long story honey, but the concise version is this. Talalia has been a bad girl. She was grounded for six months after her last trip.”
― A.R. Merrydew, Inara

“As I reached the door, the constable said, “Good luck in Canada, son.” For a second I expected his voice to morph into Uncle Sid’s as he urged me to give his love to Rose Marie and the Mounties.”
― Michael Wyndham Thomas, The Erkeley Shadows

“If I were a scientist watching her, what would I write down as the results? Woman who had neglectful/scary childhood finds comfort in fictional representations of families?”
― Sara Pascoe, Weirdo

“You too, Caesar?”
― Merlin Franco, A Dowryless Wedding

“I pleasure those whom I would liefest please.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“Funny how at twenty-five you worry about not being taken seriously and take being a sex object for granted. Later you take being taken seriously for granted, and worry about not being a sex object.”
― Helen Fielding, Cause Celeb

“In literature, death was many things—a message, catharsis, retribution. There were deaths that came from a beating heart that stopped and deaths of another kind, a choice made, like Frodo going to the Grey Havens. Death made you cry, filled you with sadness, but in the best of her books, there was peace, too, satisfaction, a sense of the story ending as it should. In real life, she saw, it wasn’t like that. It was sadness opening up inside of you, changing how you saw the world.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper