"She was afraid of all that and so much more, but what terrified her most was inside of her, an insect of unnatural intelligence whoâ€™d been living in her brain her entire life, playing with it, clicking across it, wrenching loose its cables on a whim."

-- Dennis Lehane

#Brain Quotes #Insects Quotes #Whim Quotes

“I do a little bit of hand-holding on the big cases. You know, like health care, I'll call over and say, "Don't worry. We've got it under control. We have the best people working on it. We're on schedule. Stay calm." So, those kinds of things.”
“We should speak as the populace but think as the learned.”
“Love is the light that can shine so bright.”

Source : Song: Baby Says No, Album: Another Page
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death â€“ fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.”

Source : Edna Ferber (1939). “A Peculiar Treasure”
“Scientology...is not a religion.”
“I'd rather see a woman elected...They understand they can't spend more money than the old man brings home.”
“All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...] a being which immediately recognises itself, [...] and which knows its own existence, not by observation and as a given fact, nor by inference from any idea of itself, but through direct contact with that existence. Self-consciousness is the very being of mind in action.”
“When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.”

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