Venusian Starseed Quotes

#1. In honor of the marriage that worked, I include in this collection a sickeningly slick love story from The Ladies' Home Journal, God help us, entitled by them "The Long Walk to Forever." The title I gave it, I think, was "Hell to Get Along With.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. Love isn't an accident or something that just happens when you're not looking. Love is a choice, not a chance.

Autumn Doughton

#3. Good. That is it. You will see with your hands, I promise you.

Jandy Nelson

#4. Here am bound, the scorn of fate; 'Twas a dream that once a state I enjoyed of light and gladness. What is life? 'Tis but a madness. What is life? A thing that seems, A mirage that falsely gleams, Phantom joy, delusive rest, Since is life a dream at best, And even dreams themselves are dreams.

Pedro Calderon De La Barca

#5. I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Grant Morrison

#6. The ship was small, his cabin smaller, but the captain would not allow him abovedecks.

George R R Martin

#7. Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

Ignatius Of Antioch

#8. The self. What is the self? Everything you are, without others, without friends or strangers or lovers or children or streets to walk or food to eat or mirrors in which to see yourself. But are you anyone without others?

Don DeLillo

#9. I was not popular enough - or at all - when Vanilla Ice was popular to remember who Vanilla Ice is without my husband reminding me. So I don't have a Vanilla Ice key chain.

Rachel Zucker

#10. The most bizarre demographics come up to me. Men in their 50s come up to me and are like, "Alison is my favorite. I hated her at first, and now I love her." I don't know what that says about people's psychology.

Tatiana Maslany

#11. All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

Sarah Dessen

#12. Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.

Don DeLillo

#13. Value your relationships as if there is no tomorrow.

K.E. Boyer

#14. Outside the drizzling rain had begun again. It pattered around the house, and on the roofs and eaves, like a million, tiny, stealthy feet: softly, as though the night were teeming with a host of minute, dark beings.

Evangeline Walton

#15. Sometimes you just don't like somebody

Henry Ford