“If you're a coward--and let's just say that you are, for the sake of argument--it means nothing. My Aunt Peg, she's an alcoholic. She can't handle drinking. It ruins her life and turns her into a mess--and do you know what that means? It means nothing. Do you think it makes her a bad person? Of course not--it's just the way she is. Alcoholism just happened to her, Frank. Things happen to people. We are the way we are--there's nothing to be done for it. My Uncle Billy--he couldn't keep a promise or stay faithful to a woman. It meant nothing. He was a wonderful person, Frank, and he was completely untrustworthy. It's just how he was. It didn't mean anything. We all still loved him.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“If you value your friend when he fights your battles for you -- when he's rogue and ruthless -- you must value him when he is gentle, too. Otherwise you do not value him at all.”
― The Knight and the Moth
― The Knight and the Moth
“I would not blame you. It is easier, swearing ourselves to someone else’s cause than to sit with who we are without one.”
― The Knight and the Moth
― The Knight and the Moth
“The world ain't straight. You grow up thinking things are a certain way. You think there are rules. You think there's a way that things have to be. You try to live straight. But the world doesn't care about your rules, or what you believe. The world ain't straight, Vivian. Never will be. Our rules, they don't mean a thing. The world just happens to you sometimes, is what I think. And people just gotta keep moving through it, best they can.”
― City of Girls
― City of Girls
“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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