"Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons."

--

Source : Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Icarus Girl”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

Helen Oyeyemi

#Butterfly Quotes #Dark Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“My mom lived by herself with two kids. Sacrifice was the name of the game at our house.”

Source : "Serby’s Sunday Q&A with Victor Cruz". Interview with Steve Serby, nypost.com. August 22, 2010.
“My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works.”
“From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.”
“Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.”
“When we talk about economic growth, we're not talking about bringing a bunch of companies in that can make a bunch of bucks and hope they spend 'em in our city. We're talking about creating jobs, creating new companies and then we move from there to talk about cooperatives which can become some of those jobs, some of the solidarity economy where we can begin to band together people so they'll understand that a job is not a single individual affair but a collective affair.”

Source : Source: bknation.org
“You can bluff the good players, but not the bad players. Against the bad players, you have to have a hand.”
“The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness”
“The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.”

You may also like: