Nadin > Nadin's Quotes

“Go ahead, blame the victim! The villain is my favourite role to play.”
― Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the Movies

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

“The fact that ‘attention seeking’ is still considered a slur says much about the role of women in public life, on every scale.”
― Laurie Penny, Cybersexism: Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

“Like you got two lives. And which one's real? Which one's actually the life your living?”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“She flicks her words like lit matches. They drop delicately, burning.”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“My mother always told me," hide your face people are looking at you." I would reply," it does not matter; I am also looking at them.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

“- "Who the fuck is this Harry charakter?" "Superwoman, by all accounts.”
― Kate Tempest, The Bricks that Built the Houses

“Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Having periods changed my personality: resentful and angry inside, I felt cheated and knew to the core of my being that life was unfair and boys had it easier than girls. A burning ball of anger and rebelliousness started to grow within me.”
― Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys

“I am he that walks with the tender and growing night,
I call to the earth and sea half-held by the night.

Press close bare-bosom’d night—press close magnetic nourishing night!
Night of south winds—night of the large few stars!
Still nodding night—mad naked summer night.

— Walt Whitman, from “Song of Myself, 21,” Leaves of Grass: The Deathbed Edition (BOMC, 1992)”
― Walt Whitman

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

“One sure test of social privilege is how much anger you get to express without the threat of expulsion, arrest, or social exclusion,”
― Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

“People who think that grammar is just a collection of rules and restrictions are wrong. If you get to like it, grammar reveals the hidden meaning of history, hides disorder and abandonment, links things and brings opposites together. Grammar is a wonderful way of organising the world how you'd like it to be.”
― Delphine de Vigan, No and Me

“My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.”
― Carrie Brownstein, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir

“Maybe I grew up too fast, maybe that's my trouble. I feel so lost out here...hung up between two worlds; half-kid and half-adult, half-boy and half-girl. And sometimes it seems like I get the dirty side of both.”
― Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker

“Does it ever happen that a nice girl is a Lesbian?" she asked him shyly.”
― Ann Bannon, Beebo Brinker

“For the first time in her life she was proud of her size, proud of her strength, even proud of her oddly boyish face. She could see interest, even admiration in the faces of many of the girls.”
― Ann Bannon

“Ihr glaubt, ihr seid dazu verpflichtet -
ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht - ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht!
Auch ohne Liebe sind wir manchmal glücklich und froh -
es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so!
Es geht auch ohne das - es geht auch so!”
― Kurt Tucholsky, Seifenblasen

“Natürlich ist es töricht, um jeden Preis von anderen verstanden werden zu wollen. Mir war das früher auch gleichgültig, aber als ich sah, daß Sie an einem Menschen wie mir doch irgendwie interessiert sind, war ich auf der Stelle entschlossen, Ihnen alles zu zeigen.”
― Yasushi Inoue, The Hunting Gun

“Es ist nicht leicht in Berlin, und das Leben fordert den ganzen Menschen. Das Jahr geht vom Winterschlaf in die Frühjahrsmüdigkeit, von der Frühjahrsmüdigkeit ins Sommerloch, vom Sommerloch in die Herbstdepression und dann direkt in den Winterschlaf über - und zwischendurch gibt's Momente, die sind gut.”
― Christiane Rösinger, Das schöne Leben

“Children aren’t supposed to like dark chocolate. It’s one of those bitter things that you are meant to acquire a taste for later in life, like olives and self-pity.”
― Emma Jane Unsworth, Hungry the Stars and Everything

“Die Mauer in meinem Gedächtnis besteht weiter aus den bewaffneten Männern, die bereit waren, nach einer Anweisung auf Menschen zu schießen.
Auf unserem wasserblauen Planeten werden immer wieder neue Mauern gebaut. Wo eine Mauer steht, ist das Leben auf beiden Seiten bedroht.”
― Yōko Tawada, akzentfrei. Literarische Essays

“Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ”
― Alice Walker

“Warum wird das Spielerische, Leichte, Dynamische aus der Sexualität genommen, warum sind die Klangfarben, die Tonarten der Lust als so statisch, abgegrenzt, einseitig gedacht, warum sind die Modulationen verschwunden aus dem Denken über das Begehren?”
― Carolin Emcke, Wie wir begehren

“Animal welfare - yes. Animal rights - don't make me laugh. I'm not an animals rights activist. I certainly do not love animals. In fact, I secretly mistrust all four-legged / furry / two-winged / feathered / shelled ar scaly brothers and sisters. If I were them, I would by now be plotting ultimate revenge on a scale previously unknown to man. ... I stick to a vegan diet only for reasons of self-preservertion. Call it insurance. When the time of the great animal uprising comes, I may have a small chance of escaping ...”
― Sharon Dodua Otoo, the things i am thinking while smiling politely …

“Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical because we create them.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing

“If you play your cards right, the next generation will have so much more than you did.”
― David Levithan, Two Boys Kissing