Unironically Urban Quotes & Sayings

Never tease anything that wants to eat you. Reign of Blood — Alexia Purdy

A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes. — William Sansom

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young — David Levinthal

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man. — Martin Cruz Smith

What are we doing?" Asher helped himself to a seat at my table.
"We aren't doing anything," I told him bluntly.
"My mistake. I thought we were brooding in Henry's general direction. Like so." He adopted stormy countenance, then gestured to me. "Yours is better."
"Go away, Asher."
"You say go away, I hear be my bosom buddy." He gave an elaborate shrug. "Seriously, though: friendship bracelets - yea or nay? — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

People also don't understand how young the Panthers were - basically teenagers. And that they were over 50 percent women. — Stanley Nelson Jr.

A woman has to demonstrate in every moment to be thirty times better than a man, to gain trust and to be considered. So, she has to be tenacious, combattative but not aggressive, she has to love her work a lot and not let herself be discouraged by the daily discriminiation she encounters. — Dacia Maraini

An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant. — Darnell Lamont Walker

She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her paintings, he was handsome and good-but the more she thought about it, the more she longed to ravish his intelligence, defile his kindheartedness, and violate his powerless strength — Milan Kundera

Strangling is the most intimate way to kill someone, — Lauren Kate