"It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought."

-- Susanna Kaysen

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.”
“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.”
“I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.”
“It is often asserted that woman owes all the advantages of the position she occupies to-day to Christianity, but the facts of history show that the Christian Church has done nothing specifically for woman's elevation. In the general march of civilization, she has necessarily reaped the advantage of man's higher development, but we must not claim for Christianity all that has been achieved by science, discovery and invention.”
“My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.”
“Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.”
“Patients know in a heartbeat if they're getting a clumsy exam.”
“Thank ye." “For what?" “For bein’ who ye are." Gabby chuckled and shook her head, saying, “And who else could I be?”

Source : Patricia Grasso (2014). “Courting an Angel”, p.182, Open Road Media

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