Neketa Carthan Quotes

#1. I don't think meaning exists without form, and certainly form does not exist without meaning. Meaning and story come first. Story is the most important part of fiction. Without it, what's the point? If all you care about is form, become a critic.

Percival Everett

#2. No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

Guy Sajer

#3. If you're short, don't wear extremely high heels. After a certain age, you shouldn't wear little girls' clothes. That's going against your nature.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#4. The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

Freya Stark

#5. Why don't you like being you for a change? Just be different and don't hate yourself and feel very good about all your different desires and all the things you didn't want and want. Go get them all, and see what it's like.

Frederick Lenz

#6. Even on the saddest night
in times of servitude
there is always someone who resists
there is always someone who says no.

Manuel Alegre

#7. I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. Everyone you idolize wakes up scared to be themselves sometimes.

Pete Wentz

#9. We are warriors." "And yet a moment ago, you were women." "Mother, I swear it, I am doing all I can." "And I am sorry, daughter, but you are going to have to do more.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#10. I remember my agent at the time called me and was like, "I've got it! I've found it! I've found your role!" I worked my ass off to get that role, because I think me and three or four other girls tested for it. But it was a great time.

Sherilyn Fenn

#11. Ambition, like a torrent, never looks back.

Ben Jonson