💬 Quotes

"They think they have hunted us to the brink of extinction, but they don't realize that in the shadows, we have been growing stronger."

"The hardest part about being who we are is that we can never truly have a home, because our home is no longer a place that exists."

"Being dead is not a condition that precludes the possibility of suffering."

"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little lopsided habitats, to have new little hopes."

"I want to be off the map. I want to be where there isn't any map, and where there isn't any way of getting anywhere, least of all to where people are."

"The body is more than a machine, it’s a living thing, and it has its own logic, its own mind, its own way of knowing."

"The only bridge to the future is the physical reality of the present. If we cannot be in touch with our own bodies, how can we be in touch with the world?"

"You can't go back to the state of nature, but you can go forward to the state of being real. That is all that matters."

"I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principal duties of both."

"If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."

"Dear Miss Morland, consider the dreadful nature of the suspicions you have entertained. What have you been judging from? Remember the country and the age in which we live."

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."

"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized."

"The city was a great magnet, which drew to itself the best and the worst of humanity."

"He was a man who seemed to have been born without a conscience, a void where a soul should have been."

"The fair was a fragile dream of order and beauty set in the midst of the chaos and filth of industrial Chicago."

"Fate had a way of weaving the lives of the innocent and the monstrous into the same tapestry."

"They were building a stage for the world, not knowing that the shadows behind the curtain were deepening."

"The Scarlet Pimpernel is the name of a tiny English wayside flower; but it is also the name of a shadowy figure, who, like the Pimpernel, is everywhere, and yet nowhere—seen by none, known by none, yet felt by all."

"We seek him here, we seek him there, those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? Is he in hell? That demmed, elusive Pimpernel!"