"But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates."

-- N.K. Jemisin

#Mouths Quotes #Nerves Quotes #Outlets Quotes

“I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.”
“The passion for exploration and discovery, the hunger to learn all things about all aspects of the physical world, the great and preposterous optimism that held that such truths were in fact discoverable, its dazzling sophistication and its occasional startling innocence; an age in which geographical and scientific discoveries surpassed anything previously dreamt of, and yet an age in which it was still, just barely, possible to believe in mermaids and unicorns - these remarkable traits so characterized the British 18th century”
“And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.”
“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”

Source : Karl Pearson (2007). “The Grammar of Science”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
“To forgive is to set someone free.”
“The challenges for the writer included deciding which secrets were most important, how many secrets revealed were too many, which characters should know which information when, and how the revelations would impact the rest of the family. All of those questions eventually lead back to one: What's at the heart of this book? Where does it want to focus, or toward what does it want to lead us?”

Source : "Something to be shared". Interview with Reed Turchi, logger.believermag.com. November 11, 2014.
“You will be able to check envy if you rejoice with the man whom you envy whenever he rejoices, and grieve whenever he grieves.”
“Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.”

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