Blatantly Define Quotes & Sayings

The past is a life sentence, a blunt instrument aimed at tomorrow. — Claudia Rankine

With the funeral to be arranged, and the club's business in disarray, and the building itself in dire need of restoration, Sebastian should have been far too busy to take notice of Evie and her condition. However, she soon realized that he was demanding frequent reports from the housemaids about how much she had slept, and whether she had eaten, and her activities in general. Upon learning that Evie had gone without breakfast or lunch, Sebastian had a supper tray sent upstairs, accompanied by a terse note.
My lady,
This tray will be returned for my inspection within the hour. If everything on it is not eaten, I will personally force-feed it to you.
Bon appetit,
S.
To Sebastian's satisfaction, Evie obeyed the edict. She wondered with annoyance if his orders were motivated by concern or by a desire to browbeat her. — Lisa Kleypas

It was a fractal of ugliness, disgusting at every level of self-similarity. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

A poem a day helps build vocabulary the easy way. Andrew Pender-Smith — Andrew Pender-Smith

War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm taking the chance, walking away, breaking the rules nobody here can tell me what to do. — Kiki

Don't step on shits, don't be part of shits, don't shit on others as you escape from other bullshits." ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from If I Could Tell You — Angelica Hopes

We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons. — Stephen King

His heart ... responds to those once-upon-a-time people, anonymous in the shadows, the faith it took them to come together and rest and listen through the gruesomeness, their patience for the ever after, happy or not. — Lauren Groff

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass. — Neville Cardus

The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying me. — Rupi Kaur

If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented. — Damien Chazelle

If these yarns were trash - and millions of parents must have regarded them as such - then they were the best of all kinds of trash. They were trash for connoisseurs of trash. Trash for people who understood just how good trash could really be. — Don Hutchison