"Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub."

-- John Elder Robison

#Brother Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Fire Quotes

“I`m down to Earth, a lover of music, making music and making love. I love to make people happy and I think I`m basically a good person â€¦ despite what you might read about me.”
“Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?”
“A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is the act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon - authoritarian means, if such there be at all; and if the victorious party does not want to have fought in vain, it must maintain this rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire...”
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
“The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.”
“Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.”

Source : "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky". Book by Joy Harjo, www.npr.org. 1994.
“When I am around someone who is a joy stealer, I say to myself, I only have to deal with you for an hour. That person has to deal with thinking that way every moment of their lives.”
“Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.”

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