Blake Raymond

“Yea, I know, Fallen Angel got your tongue; it happens to the best of us.”
― Carl Novakovich, The Watchers: The Tomb

“When I approached Theo to help me make Submission, I had three messages to get across. First, men, and even women, may look up and speak to Allah: it is possible for believers to have a dialogue with God and look closely at Him. Second, the rigid interpretation of the Quran in Islam today causes intolerable misery for women. Through globalization, more and more people who hold these ideas have traveled to Europe with the women they own and brutalize, and it is no longer possible for Europeans and other Westerners to pretend that severe violations of human rights occur only far away. The third message is the film’s final phrase: “I may no longer submit.” It is possible to free oneself—to adapt one’s faith, to examine it critically, and to think about the degree to which that faith is itself at the root of oppression.”
― Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel

“To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Blank Book

“Luckily they haven't heard me or if they have they've sense enough to ignore me.

I wish I could ignore me.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves