Blackouts Quotes

“You both passed out,” Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?”
“Sharing,” Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. “Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts.”
Percy scratched his head. “Yeah…we’ve been having conversations like that all night. I still don’t know what she’s talking about.”
― Rick Riordan, The Mark of Athena

“The funny thing is, the more I dwelled on the possibilities of having DID, the more time I seemed to have to do it. For what seemed like forever, and certainly for the last few years since the acid and fire incidents, days had rushed by in a blur. It was strange to admit but I suddenly seemed to have more time to myself.”
― Kim Noble, All of Me

“As hard to conceive as DID was, it was such a relief to learn that my blackouts weren't caused by alcohol. I wasn't some drunk struggling to get by in life. My apparent memory lapses were actually gaps in my knowledge and they had a medical reason: I genuinely wasn't there at the time.”
― Kim Noble, All of Me

“America
became a dirty word
in 1492
when
we
landed”
― Austin Kleon, (Newspaper Blackout) [By: Kleon, Austin] [May, 2010]

“What's exciting about the poems is that by destroying writing you can create new writing.”
― Austin Kleon, (Newspaper Blackout) [By: Kleon, Austin] [May, 2010]