Bonus Mom Quotes

#1. What does depression feel like? He whispered. It's like drowning; except that everyone else around you is breathing.

Unknown

#2. It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Ray Bradbury

#4. A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.

Howard Staunton

#5. I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.

Amy Hempel

#6. What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

Goenawan Mohamad

#7. Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Edgar Cayce

#8. Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.

Mohsin Hamid

#9. I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

Jaron Lanier

#10. One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

William Kamkwamba

#11. I'm not leaving, Kitten. You're going to do this.
My mouth opened as did the door behind us. Stomach dropping, I turned to see Mom standing there in all her fuzzy-bunny pajama glory. Oh, for the love of God.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#12. When will the left learn that if you confiscate wealth it doesn't create more of it.

Josh Bernstein

#13. If you see something you have seen before, don't click the shutter.

Alexey Brodovitch

#14. Why in the world was I going to college? I could be in bed, all cuddled up and shit, dreaming about hot men with abs covered in powdered sugar.

Jennifer L. Armentrout