Sam W

“It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes—make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take to believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere, that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.”
― Huxley, Aldous, Brave New World

“Define success," I say almost to myself.
"I didn't kill someone today," Alex says.
I laugh again. "A-plus babe.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

“I don't like to think of my hips as a nuisance, but more of an asset. I mean, if this were, like, 1642, my wide birthing hips would be worth many cows or something.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it.”
― William Faulkner