"There is no way an unassisted human brain, which is nothing more than a dog's breakfast, three and half pounds of blood soaked sponge, could have written 'Stardust' let alone Beethoven's Ninth Symphony."
"I feel and think as much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don't care about them. You are not alone."
-Timequake (Kurt Vonnegut)
"I swear to you that to think too much is a disease, a real, actual disease."
-Note From Underground (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
"Life is so dear, dear heart. Live it with gallantry."
"So little time, dear, but what there is is sweet. I hope you are getting some sweetness in your busy life and that you feel at home in the world."
"Don't sink, boy. Fly. That's an old lady's advice. Fly."
"It takes a broken person to heal broken people."
"Life is a feast but we are only human, we're not tapeworms. The world is a paradise but there are mosquitoes."
-Pontoon (Garrison Keillor)
"They don't how, but they do know how to forget, and little by little they put aside the burning summer in their bodies and all they have is rage."
"I have shouted to God and the Virgin but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a God can meet passion with passion?
She says he can.
Then he should."
-The Passion (Jeanette Winterson)
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