1843 Magazine Quotes & Sayings

All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me. — Dorothy Parker

The first season of 'Community' stumbled a bit because the plotlines too often veered into realism, but that is not a problem anymore. Not when prize episodes concern a campuswide blanket fort, or a secret garden with a magic trampoline. — Rob Sheffield

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book. — Mat Johnson

To my relief, Laura laughs. "It's the same everywhere. Most lesbian bars in Chicago closed years ago. And that's in a city of almost three million. Gay bars aplenty, though I hear their number is dwindling as well, but lesbian bars just can't seem to stay afloat." "It's because we're cheap dates." "And there's too much on television." "And the cat isn't going to feed itself," I add, enjoying this moment so much because it tells me we are still friends. The awkwardness of having asked Laura on a date has passed. — Harper Bliss

I didn't feel compromised as an actor, and allowed other people's fingerprints all over that aspect. — Gregory Harrison

She'd not allow Daniel Barrett to escape her so easily. She'd placed a bounty on his heart, and she intended to collect. — Karen Witemeyer

It behooves everyone to move forward, think forward. — Letitia Baldrige

Desire! It carries us and crucifies us, delivers us every new day to a battlefield where, on the eve, the battle was lost; but in sunlight does it not look like a territory ripe for conquest, a place where - even though tomorrow we will die - we can build empires doomed to fade to dust, as if the knowledge we have of their imminent fall had absolutely no effect on our eagerness to build them now? We are filled with the energy of constantly wanting that which we cannot have, we are abandoned at dawn on a field littered with corpses, we are transported until our death by projects that are no sooner completed than they must be renewed. Yet how exhausting it is to be constantly desiring ... — Muriel Barbery

'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss. — Alexander Hanson

Cinder tapped her fingers against her hip. Repairs - what a very cyborg term. — Marissa Meyer