"what you fear, you invite."

-- Helen McCloy

“Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.”
“In the Marquette Lecture volume, I focus on the question in the title. I emphasize the social and political costs of being a Christian in the earliest centuries, and contend that many attempts to answer the question are banal. I don't attempt a full answer myself, but urge that scholars should take the question more seriously.”

Source : Interview With Scot Mcknight, February 18, 2017.
“The president's budget request today demonstrates his unwillingness to come clean on the true costs of his agenda. A penny saved is not a penny earned if at the end of the day you still owe a quarter”
“What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is my mind going with this? I don't want to die. I do not want to die. When you don't have so much control over your own thoughts, over the myriad voices in your head, you don't know where they could go.”
“I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.”
“Ego & Hype have no place in business.”

Source : Elle Magazine Canada, 2008.
“I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.”

Source : Erlend Loe (2011). “Naïve. Super”, p.71, Canongate Books
“If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?”

Source : Mary Szybist (2013). “Incarnadine: Poems”, p.13, Macmillan

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