Diana Passy

“An essential difference between British and American punk bands can be found in their respective views of rock & roll history. The British bands took a deliberately anti-intellectual stance, refuting any awareness of, or influence from, previous exponents of the form. The New York and Cleveland bands saw themselves as self-consciously drawing on and extending an existing tradition in American rock & roll.
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A second difference between the British and American punk scenes was their relative gestation periods. The British weekly music press was reviewing Sex Pistols shows less than three months after their cacophonous debut. Within a year of the Pistols' first performance they had a record deal, with the 'major' label EMI. Within six months of their first gigs the Damned and the Clash also secured contracts, the latter with CBS. The CBGBs scene went largely ignored by the American music industry until 1976 -- two years after the debuts of Television, the Ramones and Blondie. Even then only Television signed to an established label.”
― Clinton Heylin, From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World

“Matthew had called her harmless. Harmless. And being with him made Frankie feel squashed into a box - a box where she was expected to be sweet and sensitive (but not oversensitive); a box for young and pretty girls who were not as bright or as powerful as their boyfriends. A box for people who were not forces to be reckoned with.

Frankie wanted to be a force.”
― E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

“I'm not going to die," she said. "Not till I've seen it."
"Seen what?"
Her smile widened. "Everything.”
― V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic

“Os chapéus também servem para isso, para esconder o cabelo. Não só quando se trata de um penteado feio, porque o melhor é esconder o cabelo sempre, até com penteados que dizem ser bonitos. O cabelo é uma parte morta do corpo. Por exemplo: quando você corta o cabelo, não dói. E, se não dói, é porque está morto. Quando alguém o puxa sim que dói, mas o que dói não é o cabelo, mas o couro cabeludo da cabeça. Pesquisei isso nas pesquisas livres com Mazatzin. O cabelo é como um cadáver que você traz em cima da cabeça enquanto está vivo. Além do mais é um cadáver fulminante, que cresce sem parar, o que é muito sórdido. Talvez quando você se converte em cadáver o cabelo já não seja sórdido, mas antes sim. Isso é o melhor dos hipopótamos anões da Libéria, que eles são calvos.”
― Juan Pablo Villalobos, Festa no Covil