A Blog Full of Quotes...

...and books and writings.

[lightsbookreviews]

The Mindf*ck Series, S.T. Abby

[theartofbeingblack]

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

[perfectquote]

“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket; The Ersatz Elevator

[ieatratsyummy]

They could never make me hate you, complex female character whose reaction to trauma was not pretty and digestible like how people think it should be.

[quotespile]

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

— Jack Gilbert

[macrolit]

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

— Flannery O’Connor (b. 25 March 1925)

[mournfulroses]

Albert Camus, from his novel titled "The Stranger," originally published in May 1942

[quotespile]

“Love is the kind of thing that’s already happening by the time you notice it, that’s how it works, and no matter how old you get, that doesn’t change.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi

[quotefeeling]

“My only relief is to sleep. When I’m sleeping, I’m not sad, I’m not angry, I’m not lonely, I’m nothing.”

— Jillian Medoff, Hunger Point.

[blkgrlsread2]

I wanna get back into comics.

Some recs would be nice.

Just saying.

[litsnaps]

[quotefeeling]

“The devil doesn’t come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you’ve ever wished for.”

— Tucker Max

[caribbeanangel]

Assata Shakur, Affirmation.

[boooklover]

“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?”

N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

[readtilyoudie]

Would I have done the same thing if my family had been threatened? Maybe. It’s easy to have ethics when what you love is not in danger. I like to think I wouldn’t have done it, though. I’m an idealist—I prefer naïveté and paternalism to hatred.

A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enríquez

[perfectfeelings]

“I know what it’s like to be afraid of your own mind.”

— Dr Reid’s/ Criminal Minds