"A car's not the right place for showing off to a girlâ€”the bed's the place for that. The consequences of a mistake there are more upsetting, but less tragic."

-- Sergei Lukyanenko

#Girl Quotes #Mistake Quotes #Car Quotes

“People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.”
“The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will”
“If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.”
“If you don't like your world, question your thoughts about it.”
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to oneâ€™s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.”

Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.130, Crossing Press
“I don't really like wearing bikinis. And if you don't either, don't make yourself.”
“People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring”
“A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not. That poor miserable brat of his is growing up, and I certainly licked the hide off her; and she's seen marriage at its worst, and now she's dreaming about 'supermen' and 'great men'. What is the good of doing anything for them?”

Source : Christina Stead (2016). “The Man Who Loved Children”, p.286, Head of Zeus

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