"Those of us 30ish and younger never endured the collective fall of innocence of earlier generations--our cynicism is already built in, our optimism already guarded, and our politics less directly entrenched in the context of [the] effects [of Vietnam and Watergate]."

-Jonanna Widner; "The Rachel Papers"

"...I will strip the skin off you and make from the skin a whip to whip you to death."

dag on! that's just cold blooded!

So to answer my own question i guess its be true to whoever you seem to be in the moment. Since moments are all that make us up anyway. And hope that you live to come out the other side ( Read more... )

"Despite a trace of sunshine in the distance, a gentle breeze rode through the open window, coupled with rain that came in like sawdust ( Read more... )

Death on men at war ( Read more... )

On Leo Szilard's successful attempt to put together a collection of scientists (a "Bund") who would later uncover the scientific theory behind the Bomb ( Read more... )

"There was more silence than she ever thought possible. It extended like an elastic, dying to break. The girl broke it ( Read more... )

Death describing a woman who had lost her son in the first world war ( Read more... )

"She nodded, dry-mouthed and early-morning hungry. It was one of those moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way."

"I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate."

WOO! I'M ON FIRE! actually, i canceled everything out by making a gingerbread cake with cream cheese/butter icing with orange zest and then eating three pounds of icing...i didn't even touch the cake ( Read more... )