“...I day dream.
Therefore,
I am the queen,
of my thoughts.
Though thirteen,
I drift,
between,
one conception,
to another.
I create opinions,
liberate dilemmas,
assert convictions,
deal paroxysm,
create perfections.”
I am neither,
a thinker,
nor a,
perceiver,
I am a Day Dreamer...”
Source: Ginger and Honey
“Every two or three generations the world gets vastly different, and the context in which you have to learn how to be a human being, or to have good relationships, or decide whether or not there is a God, or decide whether there’s such a thing as love, and whether it’s redemptive, become vastly different. And the structures with which you can communicate those dilemmas, or have characters struggle with them, seem to become appropriate and then inappropriate again and so on.”
“It's so weird to live in this world. What a bizarre tension to care deeply about the refugee crisis in Syria and also about Gilmore Girls. It is so disorienting to fret over aged-out foster kids while saving money for a beach vacation. Is it even okay to have fun when there is so much suffering in our communities and churches and world? What does it say about us when we love things like sports, food, travel, and fashion in a world plagued with hunger and human trafficking?”
Source: Of Mess and Moxie: Wrangling Delight Out of This Wild and Glorious Life
“You won’t solve your problems by drowning others in them.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“We need to have a quintessence belief that our deed can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about dilemmas.”
“From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, ... I wanted each and everyone of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
Source: the bell jar
“Crud. What was she supposed to do? Protect herself or the pretzels?”
Source: Must Love Dragons
“The architectural competition illustrates processes of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative, creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.”
Source: Architectural Competitions - Histories and Practice
“Last week, I was the golden goose and this week I’m the golden dipshit.”
Source: Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel
“The dilemma is more like wet cement. You can get rid of wet cement before it dries, but, once it hardens, you’re fucked. The dilemma dried and hardened. I’ve been fucked all day.”
Source: Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel