...finally her hands, so light, holding his head still and catching all his thoughts and imprisoning them there, in the space that no longer existed between them.

What nearly everybody in my life

Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Ro

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Carrie P. Snow

Yes, she believed God loved her. But if this whole fiasco was His idea of love . . .

Lauraine Snelling

One and all, religions have their original prophets, their sacred books, their traditions of ages gone. One and all require us to accept without question what other people long dead have said or written; to obey without question the commands of those behind us.... No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, This is our best thought, go on, think farther! then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, His Re

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Bodhidharma

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

David Rittenhouse

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

George Grosz

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum.

Charles Schumer

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

Isla Fisher

Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man.

Albert Camus

Emptiness gnawed at Emma. Could

Julie Klassen

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom