“Trust is very hard to earn, yet very easy to lose. So, if you want people to perceive you as trustworthy make sure you always behave that way”
Source: The Art of Loving Again: How to More Intelligently Start Again After a Breakup, Divorce and The Death of a Loved One
“I hadn't met a lot of openly queer people before. There'd been a crowd of people at school who Pip hung out with with from time to time, but there could only have been about seven or eight of them, max. I don't know what I expected. There was no particular type of person, no particular style or look. But they were all so friendly. There were a few obvious friendship groups, but mostly, people were happy to chat to whoever.
They were all just themselves.
I don't know how to explain it.
There was no pretending. No hiding. No faking.
In this little restaurant hidden away in the old streets of Durham, a bunch of queer people could all show up and just be.
I don't think I'd understood what that was like until that moment.”
Source: Loveless
“[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)”
Source: The Meaning of Human Existence
“All languages are composed of dead metaphors as the soil of corpses, but English is perhaps uniquely full of metaphors of this sort, which are not dead but sleeping, and, while making a direct statement, colour it with an implied comparison.”
Source: Seven Types of Ambiguity
“The fact that metaphors can sleep and wake is both bad news and good news for speakers and writers who want to avoid mixed metaphors. The bad news is that when a metaphoric word or phrase is sleeping for us, we probably won’t notice if we use the word or phrase in ways that are inconsistent with its source-domain meaning.”
Source: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
“Constipation ran Presley's life. Even his famous motto TCB— 'Taking Care of Business'— sounds like a reference to bathroom matters.”
Source: Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
“Of course, the ‘living/dead’ nomenclature is itself a metaphor, in that it personifies metaphors as living beings that can ‘live’ and ‘die’. Like all metaphors, this personification metaphor is helpful in some ways but imperfect in others. It is useful because it allows us to think about ‘living’ metaphors as having some of the traits of living beings. That is, ‘living’ metaphors can be thought of as active, having effects, and able to cause changes. The personification metaphor also lets us effortlessly reason that ‘dead’ metaphors will not have effects or instigate changes. Nonetheless, in other respects the metaphor misrepresents the actual situation, because metaphors can be partly dead and partly alive.”
Source: Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse
“However stone dead such metaphors seem, we can easily wake them up.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“Being open-minded dramatically reduces one’s chances of getting a permanent tattoo.”
“I want to be the heroine of my story. And you, too, Elsey. You, too, be the heroine. Not the victim. Understand? Because the heroine is the one who owns the story.”
Source: Elsey Come Home