Accentuated Lordosis Quotes

#1. Making an honest mistake is acceptable. Failing to fix it is not.

Ron Kaufman

#2. ... It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.

M T Anderson

#3. I don't feel like a survivor. I feel left behind.

Helen Bevington

#4. What did I expect, that you would wrap my rib cage with those enormous hands in which horses must be measured, lifting me overhead with the stern reproach that is every Western woman's sly delight, "You're too thin"?

Lionel Shriver

#5. One shard of brilliant summer pierced me
and remains.
By this only
unregenerate bone
I am not dead, but waiting.

Audre Lorde

#6. The ego is a mean mechanism which mobilizes the absolute strongest rationalization traps in order to preserve itself.

John Duover

#7. Children are more able to objectively synthesize a story involving vampires, monsters, or dragons due to the distance afforded by the fantastical elements than they are a story revolving around horrors committed by human beings.

Joseph Abbruscato

#8. I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

Norman Mailer

#9. I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain.

Ally Condie

#10. That was happiness. Not the framed greatest hits, but the moments in between. At the time, I hadn't pegged them as being particularly happy. But now, looking back at those phantom snapshots, I'm struck by my calm, my ease, the evident comfort with my life. I'm happy in retrospect.

Maria Semple

#11. You don't realize how big somebody was in your life, until you measure the space of their absence.

Christina L. Rozelle