Veselka Quotes

#1. The snow ... came in thick tufts like new wool - washed before the weaver spins it.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#2. I looked around at the smoke and people. I couldn't find any hate in me anywhere. The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up. I decided to love it anyway.

Vanessa Veselka

#3. The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up.

Vanessa Veselka

#4. I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.

James Fallows

#5. I paid my bill. Save your fucking pennies for a gun and a history book ...

Vanessa Veselka

#6. Some things are so sad that they have no name. I have tried to name them and I can't.

Vanessa Veselka

#7. But I know what it means to crave what you're not. To want to sew up that rift because it's exhausting to hold it open. Sometimes you just need to be someone else, someone who doesn't care about anything at all. I know I do. I want emptiness but I can't have it.

Vanessa Veselka

#8. He was my ultimate present my own personal miracle and I'd blown it. I'd given him away. It was like winning backstage passes to meet the rock star of your dreams and donating the tickets to charity. It sucked. Big time.

Colleen Houck

#9. Because that's the way it is when a possibility opens up; the body doesn't know any better. It reaches for the glittering incongruity.

Vanessa Veselka

#10. I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

Vanessa Veselka

#11. I like to think of myself as a coworker with lots of experience rather than a boss, Franklin said.
I like to think of myself as a boss more than a slave but mostly I prefer to not think about it at all because when I think about it, I can't stop.

Vanessa Veselka

#12. Hanging softly over the black Singer sewing machine, it looked like magic, and when people saw me wearing it they were going to run up to me and say, "Marguerite, forgive us, please, we didn't know who you were," and I would answer generously, "No, you couldn't have known. Of course I forgive you.

Maya Angelou

#13. The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.

Vanessa Veselka

#14. Making. A habit requires no decision from me, because I've already decided.

Gretchen Rubin

#15. I felt my pride like a prison.

Vanessa Veselka

#16. I was not afraid of horror, I was afraid of beauty, of what it could do to me if I let it.

Vanessa Veselka

#17. You wanna party? It's $500 for kissing and $10,000 for snuggling. End of list.

LIZ

#18. The gentle rustle of armies crawling the planet like ants. Anybody with any sense knows what's coming.

Vanessa Veselka

#19. What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

Pierre Trudeau