Quote From a Book

"...[We live in] a world where, as in a hall of mirrors gone mad, humanity has swollen to become everything, and the measure of everything."
~~from Defending Middle-Earth: Myth and Modernity by Patrick Curry
 
"...[Y]ou either work together or starve alone."
~~from Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
 

"Monoculture is where the logic of nature collides with the logic of economics; which logic will ultimately prevail can never be in doubt."
~~from The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
 
"Believe me when I say this: there is nothing crazier than a truly sane old lady who can't lose more than she already has."
~~from The Testament of Harold's Wife by Lynne Hugo
 
"Life gives us nothing outright. It only lends. Nothing is ours to keep. Absolutely nothing. Not even our bodies, our brains. This "self" that we think we know so well, that we think of as us. It is only on loan. If a person comes into our life, they will go again. In a parting of ways, or because everyone dies. They will die or you will die. Nothing we receive in this life are we allowed to keep."
~~from Have You Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan Hyde
 
"A dangerous form of magical thinking often accompanies new technological developments, a curious assurance that a revolution in our tools inevitably wipes the slate of the past clean."
~~from Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks
 
"Elderly people don't just want to look at photos of the past, or of a nice bloody view. [They] want to see bright lights, and hear music, and see young people having fun."
~~from The Library of Lost and Found by Phaedra Patrick

(This describes me but not my huzz unfortunately.)
 
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Theodore Rosevelt
 
"Sometime you don't do well on your own and then you turn around and don't do well with people...Then what you gonna do?"
~~from Land of Wolves by Craig Johnson
 
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"The problem with an anarchic perspective, of course, is that anything it establishes is likely to have a short life span…[and its] leaders…all…[tend] to be authoritarian."
~~from Octavia Gone by Jack McDevitt
 
"It’s some man who talks a lot. And he talks so much that he thinks he believes in something. And really, he just wants to f*ck who he wants to f*ck. I’ve seen it enough, and I’m not even mad about it anymore. I’m just tired, I’m just bored of men like you. You think I don’t see you for who you really are? The fragile, little man preying on the weak and lost? I’ve heard it and I don’t care. I’d rather sit here and listen to the rain."
~~from the screenplay of the 2018 movie Bad Times at the El Royale by Drew Goddard
 
"From the tiniest grudge to the great sweep of armies across the field, no one is ever wrong, until enough blood has been spilt and enough voices raised in pain that the pillars of [the] deceit [of the mighty] crack, and all that is left is brutal, arctic truth."

And:

"Your masters, this system they’ve built for their own benefit; do you think they will ever stop playing their great games, and look to their own streets? They are fantastically skilled in keeping us from rising up in our own name, making every beggar grateful for a scrap of bread, every poor man angry to see a beggar eat."

And:

"...[The] only thing [the mighty] fear is the moment the persecuted stop persecuting each other, and see. See the truth of where this oppression was truly born."

And:

"If you say that it is just business, I cannot guarantee the placidity of my reaction."

~~from The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
 
"…[E]asier to eat while I’m reading. That’s my main priority when it comes to food. Other people are obsessed with calories, nutritional value, antioxidants. I look at food and wonder: Can I eat that without having to put my book down?"
~~from The Secret, Book & Scone Society by Ellery Adams

[This is so me, lol. How the heck cooking & food presentation ever became an art form, I'll never understand! :ROFLMAO: ]
 
"Decades of research show that the link between mental illness and violent behavior is small and not useful for predicting violent acts; people with diagnosable conditions such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are in fact far more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators of it."
~~from Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America by Mark Follman
 
"…ecause a man is born with a particular knack for gathering in vast aggregates of money and power for himself, he may not on that account be the wisest leader to follow nor the best fitted to propound on a sane philosophy of life."
~~from The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams
 
"Every book has at least one good thing…Love stories and bad news and evil masterminds, plots as thick as sludge, places and people she wishes she could know in real life, and words whose loveliness and music make her want to cry when she says them aloud."

And:

"…I got my first cheerleading outfit when I was still in diapers. All of us [girls] did. If we were lucky, we made it to twelve before some man or boy, or some well-intentioned woman who just thought we ought to know the score, let us know why we were put on this earth. To cheer [men and boys] on. To smile and bring a little sunshine into the room. To prop them up and know them, and be nice to everybody we meet."

~~from Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore
 
"…[N]obody ever saw a U.F.O. until somebody said he saw one in 1947. Once he said it everybody and his brother started seeing them. Maybe that’s the year when the U.F.O’s got here. Maybe it’s just that once somebody makes something up, then it’s everybody’s. It gets to be another way to seem important, to have something to tell, because nothing that’s true about you is worth listening to."
~~from Shadow Woman by Thomas Perry
 
"I [melt] when there [are] too many people around. I [become] background. In a group of three or four, I [can] find some space for myself and engage with the conversation, but more than that and no one [cares] about the person who [is] too quiet to be heard."
~~from “Birds Without Wings” by Rebecca Zahabi, in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May/June 2020 issue
 
"[M]yth[:]…what the big religion calls the little religion…"
~~from “Open Letter to [Science Fiction/Fantasy Conventions] from the Indians No Longer in the Background of a John Wayne Movie” by Stephen Graham Jones, Tor.com Personal Essays, 5/19/21
 

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