"We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy.""

-- Teresa Ghilarducci

#Culture Quotes #Blame Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”
“Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.”
“To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himself to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God.”
“It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.”
“We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.”
“It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.”

Source : Robin Benway (2009). “Audrey, Wait!”, p.58, Penguin
“Plasma on the wall/Write my name on your heart like I'm Lucille Ball/But love changes, a thug changes/And best friends become strangers”
“You name any horrific thing, and I can make a joke out of it.”

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