Onramps Quotes & Sayings

Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns. — Rebecca Solnit

The history of the world may be writ in your cells, all of it personal to your lineage and some of it part of the broader context, but though you have been shaped by history, you have only been shaped by some of it. Fundamentally, — Christine Kenneally

That image - of a little child being suffocated, or almost suffocated, by others who thought the whole thing was a game - melded with the furtive nocturnal slugs, and my solitary pacing and singing, and the separate, claustrophobic stairway, and the charmless abstract painting, and the gold-framed mirror, and the slithery green satin bedspread, and became inseperable from them. It wasn't a cheerful composite. As a memory, it is more like a fog bank than a sunlit meadow.
Yet I think of that period as having been a happy time in my life.
Happy is the wrong word. Important. — Margaret Atwood

If you haven't developed morals by the time you start reading erotica, it's probably too late. — Kitty Thomas

(Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn't telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were — Arthur Miller

Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter. — Tupac Shakur

It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times. — Byron Katie

being normal is unnormal but being imperfect is PERFECT! I know I was different and perfect — Monica Petra

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life. — John Calvin

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us — John Geddes