Karyssa Urbanek Quotes & Sayings

Defining virginity means directly affecting the lives of nearly all women, and many men as well. Despite what some people appear to think, defining virginity is not merely a philosophical exercise. It is an exercise in controlling how people behave, feel, and think, and in some cases, whether they live or die. — Hanne Blank

Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about un-becoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place. — Paul Coelho

'Fire and Hemlock' is the reason I'm a writer. — Marie Brennan

No one wants to occupy a black hole of sadness and despair or slip on the tight rope that separates sanity from insanity, and reside in a vortex devoid of reality. I entered the world as a freeman and desire to escape a state of existential vertigo. I yearn to discover a synthesizing spirit of my being and hold my head high, free of doubt, and devoid of fear. I wish to foment the cerebral energy to stave off premature destruction and forevermore blunt an intolerable state of anguish. — Kilroy J. Oldster

we see faces in the clouds, but never clouds in faces, because we have special cognitive modules for face detection. — Jonathan Haidt

If things feel off, they are. If your gut and your mind are throwing up the timeouts begging you to listen, then listen. — Kelton Wright