Dorian Gray 1945 Quotes & Sayings

When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures. — Meg Rosoff

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions. — Pierre Charron

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next. — Nancy Pelosi

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health. — David Eagleman

The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot. — Henry David Thoreau

All of nature is in me, and a bit of myself is in all of nature. — Lame Deer

They were so thrilled when I said I'm a virgin," I blurt out. "I'm so fucking stupid."
I start crying again, and Alex hands me a napkin. "You're not stupid," she says. "You simply don't assume people mean you harm."
"Yeah, well." I blow my nose loudly. "Last night that equaled being stupid."
"No, it means you're normal," Alex says. — Mindy McGinnis