"What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we make them up to suit ourselves -- our own hungers, our own wishes, our own deficiencies."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Mother Quotes #Wish Quotes #Suits Quotes

“I asked the Mesquite coach who he thought the best team in Mesquite is. He said they were about even.”
“Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors to little more than chiaroscuro... and the other, by making the colors very distinct and forcible... but still, the presiding principle of both those manners is simplicity.”
“It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.”
“When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can you no longer be one?”
“Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.”

Source : David Abram (2010). “Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology”, p.134, Vintage
“The individual and the race are always moving, and as we drift into new latitudes new lights open in the heaven more immediately over us.”
“The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. Itâ€™s to set your goal too low and reach it”
“The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a book, might even take it into her boudoir, and there, reclining on here silken sheets, imbibing the thrills and chills manufactured by writerly quills, one of her hands, one not absolutely needed to grip the little volume, might wander. The fear, in short, as one-handed reading. [p. 146]”

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