Vicinal Vs Geminal Quotes & Sayings

Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to? — N.K. Jemisin

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives. — John Le Carre

Speaking of death, LeBlanc boasted he could kill me in the waiting room. I broke his wrist. He wasn't impressed. — Kelley Armstrong

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas. — Arthur Miller

No self-effort in the direction of enlightenment is ever wasted. Even if you don't become fully enlightened in a given lifetime, you will be much happier and more aware. — Frederick Lenz

(We are merely narrators, and would hate to make assumptions as to what the reader would find tragic.) — Cynthia Hand

Silence, like madness, is only comparative. — Jacques Yonnet

But Sonja was more freakish, more wondrously confounding than the one-armed guard; rather than limbs she had, somehow, amputated expectations. She didn't have a husband, or children, or a house to clean and care for. She was capable of the work, school, time, commitment, and everything else it took to run a hospital. So even if Sonja was curt and short-tempered, Havaa could forgive her these shortcomings, which were shortcomings only in that they were the opposite of what a woman was supposed to be. The thick, stern shell hid the defiance that was Sonja's life. — Anthony Marra

Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo. — IO Tillett Wright

A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time. — Idries Shah

Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace
unstrung
Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung. — Richard Henry Dana Jr.