"The world of maps is nice and flat and simple. It has areas for people and areas for monsters. What a shock it is to discover the world is round and the areas merge and nothing separates the monsters and ourselves; that we are all whirling around in space together and there isn't even a graceful way of falling off."

--

Source : Margaret Millar (2016). “Beyond This Point Are Monsters”, p.111, Soho Press

Margaret Millar

#Nice Quotes #Fall Quotes #Simple Quotes

“Sometimes your worst hits in life wind up being your best advantage. If only you could believe that when you're getting hit.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com
“If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.”
“I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.”
“I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.”
“Probably the art, in that a lot of the people who I want to collaborate with can do something that I can't do. Like with New Bums and Donovan Quinn, he is seriously one of the greatest songwriters in terms of words that is alive right now. So I really wanted to play with him to experience that, to play music with these really great words.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I don't want to be dragging myself on stage, year in year out, until someone else tells me it is time to go. There are certain birthdays that make you revalue your life”
“Life without dreams is like a rainbow without colours.”
“We have three centers: the emotional center, the intellectual center, and the physical body center. Each one of them has its own intelligence. How much better would we be if all three were working in unison?”

Source : "Erin Gray, Then and Now: an Interview". Interview with Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

You may also like: