Sojka Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ] there exists around the written world opened by the work a multitude of other possible worlds, which we can complete by means of our images and our words. Denying oneself this work of completion in the name of some hypothetical fidelity to the work is bound to fail: we can indeed reject filling these gaps in a conscious way, but we cannot prevent our unconscious from finishing the work, according to its priorities and those of the era in which it was written. — Pierre Bayard

The beauty of the world ... has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia Woolf

I kept thinking about how southern Manhattan had always been Ground Zero for us. They auctioned our bodies down there, in that same devastated, and rightly named, financial district. And there was once a burial ground for the auctioned there. They built a department store over part of it and then tried to erect a government building over another part. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

But more and more I think that madness is the world's natural condition and to expect anything else is madness compounded. — Russell Hoban

After a storm comes a calm. — Matthew Henry

I think the thing that has always made me happy is being in the struggle, in a community of struggle with other people. — Eve Ensler

So you've not only somehow married Fraser's wife, but you've accidentally been raising his illegitimate son for the last fifteen years? — Diana Gabaldon