Verdier Mutation Quotes & Sayings

But at least he thinks I have a boyfriend, I tell myself. It could be worse. If he thought I was interested in him for real then I would have to dig a hole and bury myself in it because the smug would be too much to bear.
I reach automatically for my computer and open it up. I need some music to drown my shame in. Some people have tequila to send them into catatonic oblivion, I have music. — Sarah Alderson

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones. — Louis Kronenberger

Unicorns are real and emo is imaginary. — Mikey Way

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection. — Thomas A Kempis

Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? But the misery of the world, she thought, forces me to think. Or was that a pose? Was she not seeing herself in the becoming attitude of one who points to his bleeding heart? to whom the miseries of the world are misery, when in fact, she thought, I do not love my kind. Again she saw the ruby-splashed pavement, and faces mobbed at the door of a picture palace; apathetic, passive faces; the faces of people drugged by cheap pleasures; who had not even the courage to be themselves, but must dress up, imitate, pretend. — Virginia Woolf

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness. — Greg Van Eekhout

The problem came down to this: Americans, who had invented the modern assembly line, the skyscraper, the airplane, and the integrated circuit, no longer believed in the future. — George Packer

Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing. — Jules Verne

I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience. — Stanislav Grof