Jorie W

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“La gente lo ha capito lo stesso. Le voci sono bastate a non farlo adottare dalla com sotto il capovillaggio precedente. Naturalmente, io gli ho offerto il nome della com una mezza dozzina di volte, ormai".
"Se rinuncio a Ferrigno" replica Cutter. Fa ancora quel suo sorriso sottile.
Ykka abbassa la mano. Ha la mascella contratta. "Negare ciò che sei non ha impedito agli altri di saperlo".
"E ostentarlo non è ciò che ti ha salvato".”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together forever. Diana hasn’t quite made up her mind though, because she thinks perhaps it would be nobler to marry some wild, dashing, wicked young man and reform him.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

“The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one’s own place, One’s own people, One’s own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise— Into growth and destruction, Into solitude and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents