Chara Pryer

“In its essence, language is not the utterance of an organism; nor is it the expression of a living thing. Nor can it ever be thought in an essentially correct way in terms of its symbolic character, perhaps not even in terms of the character of signification. Language is the clearing-concealing advent of Being itself.”
― Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings

“Bigwig, as he had predicted, was getting his head bitten off.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“I cannot say, with truth, that the news of my old master's death softened my feelings towards him. There are wrongs which even the grave does not bury. The man was odious to me while he lived, and his memory is odious now.”
― Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“Satan to Jesus: Well, I see someone has a bad case of the hangries. You might want to consider using your godly powers to turn these desert rocks into loaves of bread. Maybe if you engage in some serious carb-loading, you’ll regain what little sense of humor you had before you started this ridiculous hunger strike.”
― Spencer C Demetros, The Bible: Enter Here: Bringing God's Word to Life for Today's Teens