Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most people miss their whole lives, you know. Listen, life isn't when you are standing on top of a mountain looking at a sunset. Life isn't waiting at the alter or the moment your child is born or that time you were swimming in a deep water and a dolphin came up alongside you. These are fragments. 10 or 12 grains of sand spread throughout your entire existence. These are not life. Life is brushing your teeth or making a sandwich or watching the news or waiting for the bus. Or walking. Every day, thousands of tiny events happen and if you're not watching, if you're not careful, if you don't capture them and make them COUNT, your could miss it. You could miss your whole life.”― Toni Jordan, Addition

On the “wanton woman” character
 

"Language can never “pin down” slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity is in its reach toward the ineffable. Be it grand or slender, burrowing, blasting, or refusing to sanctify; whether it laughs out loud or is a cry without an alphabet, the choice word, the chosen silence, unmolested language surges toward knowledge, not its destruction. But who does not know of literature banned because it is interrogative; discredited because it is critical; erased because alternate? And how many are outraged by the thought of a self-ravaged tongue?"

—Toni Morrison

Here's an excerpt from her soon-to-be-released book, God Help The Child.

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For The Sake O' Somebody

~~ Burns

My heart is sair — I dare na tell —
My heart is sair for Somebody:
I could wake a winter night
For the sake o' Somebody.
O-hon! for Somebody!
O-hey! for Somebody!
I could range the world around,
For the sake o' Somebody.

Ye Powers that smile on virtuous love,
O, sweetly smile on Somebody!
Frae ilka danger keep him free,
And send me safe my Somebody!
O-hon! for Somebody!
O-hey! for Somebody!
I wad do - what wad I not? —
For the sake o’ Somebody!

“Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.”
― Albert Einstein

THIS is her quote on "wanton women" characters
 

“The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status—that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me. And the benefits they bring with them, in spite of the fact that they are either dismissed or upbraided—something about their presence is constructive in the long run.

—Toni Morrison

Toni's book, God Help the Child, is out tomorrow. I haven't been this excited about a novel since Walter Mosley released "Gone Fishin'"

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.” ― Mandy Hale

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?” ― Emily Dickinson

What is the flesh and blood compounded of but a few moments in the life of time? This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime.

Allen Tate

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.
Malcolm Turnbull

Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.
Mary J. Blige

On a roll!!

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius

“Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.”

-Anonymous

This is a good one for me...sometimes I'm afraid of my own shadow...

You heart will be torn
But it too will mend
You must always remember
To never let your soul bend

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.
James A. Baldwin

If you must have motivation, think of your paycheck on Friday.
Noel Coward

Sometimes?

I'm talking to my builder about having this carved over my doorway or on my mantle in the new house - books, woods, new house - seems appropos -

The Real Truth
 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” ― Oscar Wilde

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” ― Oscar Wilde

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.” ― Jane Austen

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.

Eleanor Roosevelt


Vote!

http://www.womenon20s.org/vote2

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― C.S. Lewis

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.” ― Sylvia Plath

“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common.
Dorothy Parker

One can only truly see, without seeing...-Me

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Voltaire

"I call architecture frozen music." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.” ― D.H. Lawrence