Adventure Journal Quotes & Sayings

The power of monsters is their ability to fuse opposites, to merge contraries, to subvert rules, to overthrow cognitive barriers, moral distinction, and ontological categories. Monsters overcome the barrier of time itself. Uniting past and present, demonic and divine, guilt and conscience, predator and prey, parent and child, self and alien, our monsters are our innermost selves. — David D. Gilmore

George Clooney is on the program tonight. Next week at this time I will be in a hardware store watching them mix paint. — David Letterman

But there's no emergency kit for marriage. No neat plan you can turn to when the ground shifts beneath your feet. — Michelle Richmond

A list of birds seen on a given day is also a form of prayer, a thanksgiving for being alive at a certain time and place. Posting that list online is a 21st-century form of a votive offering. — Brian Kimberling

Good poetry could not have been otherwise written than it is. The first time you hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Almost everywhere we find ... the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus
i.e., the weak, helpless, dependent creature
in order to become an independent competent adult deserving of respect. When we reencounter this creature in our children, we persecute it with the same measures once used in ourselves. — Alice Miller

My grandpa told me, 'Learn to love anxiety, because it never goes away in moviemaking.' — Gia Coppola

It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do. — Brian Spellman

You're all he ever wants. — Cassandra Clare

Our lips met, and if this kiss wasn't as ... thorough as the first one, it felt bigger somehow. More important. — Rachel Hawkins

How about that?" Henry claps — Jojo Moyes

The big time is not a place; it's the state of your heart. It's not something you get; it's something you become. — Frosty Westering

We sometimes allow writers to publish their work without editing on io9. — Annalee Newitz

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world. — Daniel J. Rice

They say, you know, about evolution, it surely happened because their fossil record shows that. Look, my body and your body are miracles of design. Scientists are pretending they have the answer as how we got this way when natural selection couldn't possibly have produced such machines. — Kurt Vonnegut