Showing posts with label Harper Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harper Collins. Show all posts


"'I thought maybe when I arrived here I would feel inspired; that I would feel the urge to set out. But I don't in the least. Please let's not discuss it."
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Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles

 

"We love, we hurt, we fall apart, we change, we let go, we go on. We become unrecognizable. We stay more or less the same—small and scared. It goes forever."


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The Lover by Rebecca Sacks

 

"Mahler wrote music to these lyrics DARK IS LIFE. SPRING IS HERE. THE BIRDS ARE SINGING."

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Still Life with Remorse by Maira Kalman

 

"Right when I wanted a hurricane there was a hurricane. I had longed to be swept off my feet, to get entangled in something, and I had the good luck of getting exactly what I'd asked for, the bad luck of getting everything I thought I wanted, the good luck and the bad luck of having my prayers about passionate love heard."

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The Details by Ia Genberg

 

"None of the humans are satellites the way she is, in her orbit around Doug...He is the only star in their system, she realizes. He has no competition, no need to listen to Annie like she's her own protagonist because she's not. She has no outside, separate life beyond his. They have no issues of imbalance between them because they have no question, ever, about who has complete power."

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Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

 

Ideal Heaven 

When we get there, the angels sing Cardi B in four parts to assure us no one is taking this too seriously. After all the paperwork, I find my friends in a blue lagoon. God I could really use a drink, I say, forgetting where I am. We laugh so hard we cry.


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And Yet by Kate Baer

 

"Audre Lorde reminds us: 'Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone, who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.'"

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Who Is Wellness For? by Fariha Róisín

 

"Do I hate my husband? For sure, yes, definitely. I don't know anyone who's been married more than seven years who flinches at this concept. Before you're married, it's easy to imagine that hating your spouse must mean that you're headed for divorce. Hating your spouse is as natural as natural as disliking an unexpected bout of the flu. A spouse is a blessing and a curse wrapped into one. How could it be otherwise?" 

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Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky

 

"The Forer effect explains why the pseudosciences work so well--astrology, astrotherapy, the study of handwriting, biorhythm analysis, palmistry, tarot card readings, and seances with the dead. What's behind the Forer effect? First, the majority of the statements are so general that they relate to everyone: 'Sometimes you seriously doubt your actions.' Who doesn't? Second, we tend to accept flattering statements that don't apply to us: 'You are proud of your independent thinking.' Obviously! Third, the so-called feature-positive effect plays a part: The text contains no negative statements; it states only what we are, even though the absence of characteristics is an equally important part of a person's makeup. Fourth, the father of all the fallacies, the confirmation bias: We accept whatever corresponds to our self-image and unconsciously filter everything else out. What remains is a coherent portrait." 

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The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli

"Even on the Left it was held that the oppressed, disempowered people would turn to terrorism. Yet oppression was nearly universal, while terrorism measured in parts per billion. Maybe if state terror had been included along with civil war and genocide by neglect, the body count could have attained statistical significance? That was not the point. The point was to imagine terrorists as great men, originators and bearers of epochal ideals, ritual scapegoats worthy of custom-tailored deaths. Great men were rare. That was something great men could always agree on."
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Doxology by Nell Zink

"And because he felt like he might burst open and because he lacked the dexterity in English to say all that he was thinking -- how, in his estimation, the more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe -- Pasquale Tursi said, only, 'Yes.'"

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Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

"But increasingly, she said, this position feels like I am standing on a small rock in the ocean that is getting even smaller by the minute as the water rises. There has been no territory marked out, she said, and so there is no place where I can take a step and find myself on dry land. It perhaps remains the case, she said, that for a woman to have a territory she must live as Bourgeois's spider, unless she is prepared to camp on male territory and abide by its terms."

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Kudos by Rachel Cusk

"Perhaps the most horrifying thing about nonconsensual sex is that, in an instant, it erases you. Your own desires, your safety, and well-being, your ownership of the body that may very well have been the only thing you felt sure you owned -- all of it becomes irrelevant, even nonexistent."
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxane Gay

"'Uncertainty is better,' wrote Chekhov. 'At least then there's hope.'"
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The Wrong Way to Save Your Life by Megan Stielstra




"What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?"
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Hunger by Roxane Gay

"My hypothesis is that humiliation is a risk factor for terrorism."
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Denial by Jessica Stern

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