Aleksandra Samusenko Quotes & Sayings

The notion of this powerful childhood gaze was all the more specious given that adults, in the name of that very spontaneity, subjected chidren to every sort of rehearsed and prepackaged foolishness so that what children were supposed to see and like was no more than the adults' idea of what they imagined having lost themselves, which in turn was probably no more than other versions of childhood recycled by other adults, this cycle of loss building itself up according to the endless demands of nostalgia, so that the older and more rotten the world became, the more this driveling idocy prevailed and this idea of innocence took hold. Grown-ups tried to sweeten the pill, but there was no hiding it, children were the most oppressed creatures on earth. — Jean-Christophe Valtat

All monsters are scared.
That's why they're monsters. — Neil Gaiman

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. — Jane Austen

Know why PMS is called PMS?" "Don't you dare," she threatened. "Only women can tell PMS jokes." "Because 'mad cow disease' was already taken. — Linda Howard

When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer. — Dorothy Koomson

My vampire loved pleasing him, just as much as she loved teasing him. — Alaska Angelini

Is it just me, or is spooge the single least attractive synonym for dickglue? — Cory O'Brien

I don't want to be no more than what I am. — Joe Frazier

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. — Austin O'Malley

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions. — Nathan Wolfe

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills. — Carol Moseley Braun