Extramural Quotes & Sayings

Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle. — Winston S. Churchill

There can be no centre
in infinity. — Titus Lucretius Carus

I burned liked oil, you grew like a flower, rising toward your magical hour. I was not yours and you were not mine, our true love finds us when it is time — Mark Kozelek

When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into. — G. Willow Wilson

When you open yourself to somebody, when you feel these thing that you feel, well, what do you do? You can try to ignore it, maybe you can try to forget about it, but you can't undo it and you can't give it back. — Ann Brashares

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. — Arnold H. Glasow

Everything comes to him who knows how to wait. — Wolfgang Pauli

You know, Miss Bard, there is such a thing as being sharp enough to cut yourself. — V.E Schwab

Here is how to turn down an extramural date so you won't be asked again. Say something like I'm terribly sorry I can't come out to see 8 1/2 revived on a wall-size Cambridge Celluloid Festival viewer on Friday, Kimberly, or Daphne, but you see if I jump rope for two hours then jog backwards through Newton till I puke They'll let me watch match-cartridges and then my mother will read aloud to me from the O.E.D. until 2200 lights-out, and c.; so you can be sure that henceforth Daphne/Kimberly/Jennifer will take her adolescent-mating-dance-type-ritual-socialization business somewhere else. — David Foster Wallace

Everything that is deep loves the mask — Friedrich Nietzsche

It's like he took the words right out of the deepest, most secretive part of my heart, the tiny room that's always locked up with the key swallowed for good measure. — Steph Campbell

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow. — Meghan O'Rourke

I want you to take a sleeve of Thin Mints and line them up on the edge of the kitchen counter and when I'm hungry I can just bend over and sweep a cookie into my mouth like I'm scoring a goal in hockey. — Jack Gantos

It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had short hair, didn't wear bell bottoms and walked down the street, chances are some asshole in an El Camino was going to kick your ass. — John Roecker

So we grapple with the mysteries, each in our own way. And some of us get to float around on one of them and call it home. — Jandy Nelson

Only morons smoke — Cynthia Hand