“It takes courage and strength to be sensitive to things and even more strength and courage to own up to it or be vocal about it. Robots, the only things with a perfect lack of emotional capacity, are easily controlled, and I suddenly realized that’s why the military often trains people to suppress their emotions. Unfortunately for them, humans aren't machines. We feel, we love, we cry, we despair, and we rejoice. Anyone who’s ever tried to convince me not to feel is someone I shouldn’t have trusted. The only reason you should shut off your emotions and emulate a robot is if you're doing horrible things. How fatal my decisions have been. How many people would be loving, rejoicing, and feeling right now rather than crying indefinitely in the depths of the afterlife? If only I’d figured this out sooner.” LoveCompassionCourageStrengthTrustEmpathyHorribleFeelingRobotsThingsEmulateSuppressionPassionsForlornWarmy Book:Forlorn Passions Source: Forlorn Passions
“To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.” BeautyPaperWomanInkViolinPassionsForlornDanteAdulationWoodString Book:Forlorn Passions Source: Forlorn Passions
“The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ourselves? And save it for what? For ourselves? It was a kind of perpetual stupidity in a tug-of-war battle over trivial matters. Only imbeciles see things in black and white: liberal or conservative, yes or no, this or that. Those in power laugh at those people in their morally inverted shades of grey, basking in the labels they've created so the people are easier to control.” ClassPowerStruggleIgnoranceStupidityGreySavePlanetPassionsForlornShadesTrivial Book:Forlorn Passions Source: Forlorn Passions
“A bodyguard for a pretty socialite, I was moving up in the world. Like all idiots I naturally assumed she was pretty because she was rich. You can buy anything with money, even people, even... beauty.” PeopleMoneyBeautyRichWomanConsumptionSoulsPassionsBodyguardForlornPretty Woman Book:Forlorn Passions Source: Forlorn Passions
“Here… our failures are known to every Tom Dick and Harry while our successes fall only on deaf ears. It’s death, hostile civilians, greedy politicians, and more death, and forget about love. You could be here now and across the world in 11 minutes. If you're lucky you’ll be blown to the next world in much less than 11 seconds.” LoveWarDeathCiviliansPassionsForlornCrownBrucePopulus Book:Forlorn Passions Source: Forlorn Passions
“I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I’d become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the status-quo for the sole purpose of fitting in. Whatever... gunrunners, terrorists, bankers, dictators, goons; we all have it coming.” DeathStatus QuoInevitabilityPassionsForlornCrownAction HeroBruce Book:Forlorn Passions Source: Forlorn Passions
“Last call. It was about that time. He’d probably been drinking liquid courage all night, waiting for his chance to hit on her. I had little choice in assuming he was a three-time loser with a wad-of-cash to wave around and a bozo smile to boot. About to prate his many accomplishments as a man of the world and his travels among the world’s top markets.” PassionsForlornBarShow OffBankerLiquid CouragePoseursDay TraderLast CallPrating Book:Forlorn Passions Source: Forlorn Passions