Aracelis Quotes

#1. I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times ... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us.

Jeff Koons

#2. & we cannot separate the roof from the heart
from the trees that were there, standing.
& so it is, when I say "night,"
it is your name I am calling,
when I say "field,"
your thousand, thousand names,
your million names.

Aracelis Girmay

#3. That's what life is, a series of fuck-ups and what you make of 'em.

Stevie J. Cole

#4. Gray Man. The Gray Man was created by Sarah Orne Jewett and appeared in "The Gray Man" (A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886). Jewett also created Lady Ferry. "The Gray Man" is one of Jewett's best supernatural short stories, which means it is very good indeed.

Jess Nevins

#5. The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.

Friedrich Engels

#6. Whole years will be spent, underneath these impossible stars,
when dirt's the only animal who will sleep with you
& touch you with
its mouth.

Aracelis Girmay

#7. We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#8. Not being violent enough could cost me my body. Being too violent could cost me my body. We could not get out.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#9. How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered.

Aracelis Girmay

#10. There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material.

Andrew Dice Clay

#11. I pray. I go to mass. I even remember to respect my elders and help little old ladies across the street. What the hell did I do to deserve this?

Lora Leigh

#12. I used to like doing school plays.

Jamie Waylett

#13. I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview.

Wright Thompson

#14. Samaritrophia is only a disease, and a violent one, too, when it attacks those exceedingly rare individuals who reach biological maturity still loving and wanting to help their fellow men.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Take away truth and people will lie. Scoff at virtue, and betrayal becomes a matter of course.

Frank E. Peretti

#16. I don't believe in worrying. It's a waste of energy.

Malinda Lo

#17. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.

Gustave Flaubert

#18. There was a man called Chaumette, scruffy and sharp-featured. He hated the aristocrats and he also hated prostitutes, and the two things used to get quite confused in his mind.

Hilary Mantel