Devany Dougherty Quotes & Sayings

My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame. — Zaha Hadid

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton. — Lillian Gish

The jellies living nearest the surface had transparent bodies, but their edges twinkled and flashed, as though traced by fiber-optic cables, blinking and undulating like neon signs. They were delicate; if you weren't looking — Susan Casey

The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings, and a fat white body with black spots running down it like a snowman's coal buttons. No human eye had looked at this moth before; no one would see its friends. So much detail goes unnoticed in the world. — Barbara Kingsolver

When you love someone deeply, you cannot stop it, because how much you try that much it hurts — M.F. Moonzajer

Don't make the editor's decision for her by not submitting. — Victoria Janssen

Not exist? But I made her. She's mine. You can't exist if I don't, stupid girl. — Stylo Fantome

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos. — Philip Zimbardo

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. — William McKinley

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way that I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. — Oliver Burkeman

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. — Steve Buyer

For optimists, human life never needs justification, no matter how much hurt piles up, because they can always tell themselves that things will get better. For pessimists, there is no amount of happiness - should such a thing as happiness even obtain for human beings except as a misconception - that can compensate us for life's hurt. As a worst-case example, a pessimist might refer to the hurt caused by some natural or human-made cataclysm. To adduce a hedonic counterpart to the horrors that attach to such cataclysms would require a degree of ingenuity from an optimist, but it could be done. And the reason it could be done, the reason for the eternal stalemate between optimists and pessimists, is that no possible formula can be established to measure proportions and types of hurt and happiness in the world. If such a formula could be established, then either pessimists or optimists would have to give in to their adversaries. — Thomas Ligotti

He can't understand that what I've done was to ensure his safety. He thinks I'm a monster. A burden that he has to endure. A danger to the family. He wants nothing to do with me and avoids me. When he can't avoid me he has a look in his eye that I know well, and the look says, 'Why won't she die? Why won't she just die?' I'm like that room upstairs; he just wants to close the door and forget any of it happened. He wants to close the door so eventually, like our mother, I'll become the beautiful woman that died too young and nothing more. All my sins will be forgotten and hidden, locked away never to be spoken of again — Angelique Jones

The greatest moral failing is to condemn something as a moral failing: no vice is worse than being judgmental. — Julian Baggini