Tana Lake Quotes

#1. Reason is always a kind of brute force; those who appeal to the head rather than the heart, however pallid and polite, are necessarily men of violence. We speak of 'touching' a man's heart, but we can do nothing to his head but hit it.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. We both knew what it was to hurt our bodies. It's a strange reason to bond with someone, but I think we both needed to feel understood, and, even though we couldn't love ourselves, we could love each other.

Melissa C. Water

#3. My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#4. My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'

Uzo Aduba

#5. Leaking sacks of mutated maggots? He raises his perfectly arched eyebrow as though I'd just failed my verbal insult exam.

Susan Ee

#6. I'd have liked to have gone to bed with Jean Harlow. She was a beautiful broad. The fellow who married her was impotent and he killed himself. I would have done the same thing.

Groucho Marx

#7. This meant he belonged to a special subcategory of human called a "teenager," the chief characteristics of which were a weakened resistance to gravity, a vocabulary of grunts, a lack of spatial awareness, copious amounts of masturbation, and an unending appetite for cereal.

Matt Haig