Xing

“Oh shit, I was just flirting with the waitress a little. It was harmless. I told her those jeans must be from outer space because her ass is out of this world.”
― Elle Parker, Like Coffee and Doughnuts

“He saw life, in that instant, as a series of borrowings. You slopped together a brain from atomic mud, your cells clustered together and built you a frame, and you grew layers of flesh and draped it over your bones. You took vibrations from the air and made a voice; you drew light through your eyes and the world appeared like projector thrusting an image onto a dark screen. You learned rules, and your feelings shaped themselves into something beyond your control, a weapon you had to master if you had hoped to destroy anything specific.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“And maybe that’s all love ever was—just something you hung over loneliness, like a photograph put up just to cover a square of faded paint on a wall.”
― J.A. Rock, The Grand Ballast

“We have to realize what we are. The range of what is human is vast, ranging from the saintly to the monstrous. When we speak of other human beings as if they somehow do not belong to our species, we ignore the reality of our very nature.”
― Steve Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware Right Now, Every Day