“I think desire gives us - imagination - as well as actually often we pay a terrible price for it. Women are punished around their sexuality and perceived to be immoral if they practice a certain kind of promiscuous sexuality. It's a very different thing still if you're a guy, if you're a woman and you're straight.” IfsThinkingGivingWellsKindStillsDifferentDesireGuyCertainImaginationPayPracticeTerribleSexualityDifferent ThingsImmoralPromiscuous Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“I've made so many crazy mistakes and done so many terrible things, I don't know. I'd just say I'm grateful for every mistake and every disappoint that I've had to experience - that I'm still loved and still cared for, that God's still here for me.” KnowsMadeStillsDoneMistakeCrazyTerribleGratefulTerrible ThingsDisappoint Author:LeCrae
“I never, ever had it in my mind that I wanted to be in the record industry, because I still contend that the record industry is an insidious affair. It's this terrible collision between art and commerce, and it will always be that way.” WayMindArtStillsWantedRecordsIndustryTerribleAffairCommerceCollisionInsidious Author:Ian MacKaye
“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.” IfsWorldBelieveStillsStatesGovernmentHappensWishAbilityLibertyRiskSecurityCitizensTerribleIdealsClaimsAbsolutesSafetyWorthyThings HappenDefinedTerrible ThingsBlanketInterference Author:Ron Paul
“I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His weakness and his ravening bitter needs were terrible, and beautiful, and irresistible as an earthquake. He scalded or smothered anyone he needed, but his needing and the hurt that it caused me were the most life I have ever had. Remember what a poor thing I have always been and forgive me.” WayNeedsStillsBeautifulRememberFacesHurtPoorNeededTerribleWeaknessHotForgivingBitterFlatsFloodExquisiteIrresistibleTombsEarthquakesForgive Me Book:Geek Love: A Novel Source: Geek Love: A Novel
“You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast leaned closer still, Chronicler smelled flowers on his breath. "You are not wise enough to fear me as I should be feared. You do not know the first note of the music that moves me.” KnowsMenShouldFirstsKindStillsEnoughMovingWiseFlowerTerribleBreathsNotesEducatedDemonEducated ManFear Me Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.” StillsMomentsLastsPastLostOur LivesTerribleFragileSlipsBabylon Author:J. Michael Straczynski
“Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.” Has BeensStillsEnoughMightClearTerribleLosingSparesMight Have BeenSpare TimeLucidity Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated
“If only you’d remember before ever you sit down to write that you’ve been a reader long before you were ever a writer. You simply fix that fact in your mind, then sit very still and ask yourself, as a reader, what piece of writing in all the world Buddy Glass would most want to read if he had his heart’s choice. The next step is terrible, but so simple I can hardly believe it as I write it. You just sit down shamelessly and write the thing yourself. I won’t even underline that. It’s too important to be underlined.” IfsWorldWantWritingMindBelieveHeartLongStillsI CanImportantFactsRememberChoicesNextAsksSimpleStepsPiecesReaderTerribleGlassesBuddyNext Steps Author:J. D. Salinger