Straubinger Blog Quotes & Sayings

He stopped at an intersection, panting, rubbing at the twinge in his hamstrings, looking around, though he knew no cars were coming in either direction.
Dropping forward at the waist Martin admitted that he was fucking himself up. Dr Leonowsky told him: hurting yourself is an articulation of self-disgust. It helps no one, prevents nothing. This wasn't a glorious loss of control, he was fooling himself, it was self-harm. — Denise Mina

Happiness is a myth we seek,
If manifested surely irks;
Like river speeding to the plain,
On its arrival slows and murks.
For man is happy only in
His aspiration to the heights;
When he attains his goal, he cools
And longs for other distant flights. — Khalil Gibran

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class. — Jim Shepard

Infidelity, like death, admits of no degrees. — Delphine De Girardin

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life. — Maya Angelou

In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters as they truly were, that only people like my brother were prepared to admit what they saw from the corner of their eye. — Robert Goddard

You should not have to burn your hand every day to feel the mystery of fire. — Steve Abbott