"I wanted the rattle of New York around me, I wanted stink and strangers and the sour dank air of the IRT clutching me to its bosom. I wanted hustle and bustle. I wanted to know that millions of lives were playing out at my doorstep, and not one of them gave a damn about my little problems."
Beatriz Williams
"To world enough and time."
Audrey Niffenegger
"A sea of dreams trapped in a span of pressed pages."
Laura Whitcomb
"I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing."
Robert A. Heinlein
"Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!"
Tarang Sinha
"Her friends used to tell her it wasn't rape if the man was your husband. She didn't say anything, but inside she seethed; she wanted to take a knife to their faces."
F. H. Batacan
"It's not his bodythat changesright away.It's somethinginside. He sayshe wants tobe a littleweaker. I don'tunderstand.I say 'thinner?'and he says'no, I wantto be strongerin a differentway.' notbecause of me,but for me."
David Levithan
"It's really easy to do sad you just put on some sad music and write dramatically - everybody can do that."
Jill Soloway
"My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire."
Sarah Brownlee
"How can you hide from what never goes away?"
Elizabeth Wurtzel
"THE LUXE IS . . .Pretty girls in pretty dresses, partying until dawn.Irresistible boys with mischievous smiles and dangerous intentions.White lies, dark secrets, and scandalous hookups.This is Manhattan in 1899."
Anna Godbersen
"I think we all have a dream of what it would be like not to work and grow heirloom tomatoes, and I do have that dream. It would be lovely. I do love gardening and all of that, but I do love my work."
Helen Mirren
"I'm going to bed, where I may die."
Diana Wynne Jones
"She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine."
A.S. Peterson
"I do remember a teacher telling me when I was about ten that I was really good at acting. I was so proud, even though I am sure he said that to all of us in the class."
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
"I don’t much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance."
Thomm Quackenbush
"Your calling can never fail you."
Sunday Adelaja
"I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth."
Shan Sa
"The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle."
Joan Didion
"Are you all right?''How do I look?''Um… You have raven hair, brown eyes and bronzed skin if you didn’t know, and you’re… human."