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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Chance

“It's all make believe, isn't it?”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.”
― Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye

“Canadians are fond of a good disaster, especially if it has ice, water, or snow in it. You thought the national flag was about a leaf, didn't you? Look harder. It's where someone got axed in the snow.”
― Margaret Atwood

“If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“I'd like another dimension of space, and also the tombs and the dead women, please.”
― Margaret Atwood

“The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

“Thy only authentic ending is the one provided here: John and Mary die, John and Mary die, John and Mary die.”
― Margaret Atwood

“I am not afraid... I was born to do this.”
― Joan of Arc

“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

“We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars,
watching Cassiopeia mount her throne
and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South.
I would say, "I have a secret to tell you."
And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly,
you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

”
― Diane Ackerman, Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New and Selected Poems

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
― Dante Alighieri

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.”
― Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”
― Matthew Arnold

“Wandering between two worlds, one dead, The other powerless to be born.”
― Matthew Arnold

“You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.”
― Wystan Hugh Auden

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
― Jane Austen

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
― Francis Bacon

“All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Writings Of Ambrose Bierce

“HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are
four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and
praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain
whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for
advantage of the lawyers.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.”
― Ambrose Bierce

“-I have dreamed of escape, a forever

-to burn your suicide notes she read in Braille

-and the stars of dawn's trousseau”
― Frank Stanford

“Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.”
― Lord George Gordon Byron

“My home is a red desert that trembles with spirits and bones.

There are two reasons I came here: my father's death, and the lion man who prowled my dreams. Perhaps it was coincidence, but a man--half wild, ravenous beyond words--slid from the dream world into the mud of the waking one the same year my father left this world for another.

Ghosts. Paw prints. I have tried to stay put.”
― Amy Irvine, Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land

“Oh, but once my memories had pulsed with the blood-heat of life. In desperation, I forced myself to recall that once, I had walked with kings and conversed in languages never heard in this land. Once I had stood at the prow of a Sea Wolf ship and sailed oceans unknown to seamen here. I had ridden horses through desert lands, and dined on exotic foods in Arab tents. I had roamed Constantinople’s fabled streets, and bowed before the Holy Roman Emperor’s throne. I had been a slave, a spy, a sailor. Advisor and confidant of lords, I had served Arabs, Byzantines, and barbarians. I had worn captive’s rags, and the silken robes of a Sarazen prince. Once I had held a jeweled knife and taken a life with my own hand. Yes, and once I had held a loving woman in my arms and kissed her warm and willing lips...Death would have been far, far better than the gnawing, aching emptiness that was now my life.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, Byzantium

“Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?

~Jack or The Submission”
― Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano and The Lesson: Two Plays

“When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about.”
― Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano and Other Plays