Duval County Jail Quotes

#1. I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

Patti Smith

#2. Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

Frederic Chopin

#3. Not only do happy people endure pain better and take more health and safety precautions when threatened, but positive emotions undo negative emotions.

Martin Seligman

#4. The ruling class isn't dissatisfied: they are healthy, well-fed, live in beauty, enjoy their own importance: fun-loving cannibals.

Marge Piercy

#5. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity.

Hans F. Sennholz

#6. Levana had not seen the bodies, but she had seen the bedrooms the next morning, and her first thought was that all that blood would make for a very pretty rouge on her lips.

Marissa Meyer

#7. The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Meg Wolitzer

#8. We all have choices, some are just harder to make than others

Kirsten Beyer

#9. Her tits are full and proud, like a goddamn American flag flying above the indent of her waist. And fuck if I'm not feeling mighty patriotic right now.

Dani Wyatt

#10. All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Stanley Crouch

#11. There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we are, all the way until death.

Richard Holmes