Quotes about the trip
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“i worried he'd let go, but he didn't. We held hands like this the whole rest of the way home.”
Source: It's Not Summer Without You
Source: I Capture the Castle

“Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.”
Ne pouvant supprimer l'amour, l'Église a voulu au moins le désinfecter, et elle a fait le mariage.
Journaux intimes (1864–1867; published 1887), Mon cœur mis à nu (1864)
Source: Bound

“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
V.20
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book V
Context: In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them. But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us--like sun, wind, and animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. (Hays translation)

“Fiction is the only way to redeem the formlessness of life”
Source: Essays
Source: The Housekeeper and the Professor

“Despite my staggering good looks, you actually don't like me that way…" (Jace)”
Source: City of Glass

“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
“And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.”
Source: Betrayals


tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Kn.+864
ὅπερ γὰρ οἱ τὰς ἐγχέλεις θηρώμενοι πέπονθας.
ὅταν μὲν ἡ λίμνη καταστῇ, λαμβάνουσιν οὐδέν·
ἐὰν δ᾽ ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω τὸν βόρβορον κυκῶσιν,
αἱροῦσι· καὶ σὺ λαμβάνεις, ἢν τὴν πόλιν ταράττῃς.
Knights, line 864-867
Dialog aimed at the politician Cleon, symbolizing demagogues for the author.
Knights (424 BC)
Source: The Knights

Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.

"Juan Muraña", in Brodie's Report (1970); tr. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (1998)

My Life on The Road
Source: My Life on the Road

“People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.”

“It is in your self-interest to find a way to be very tender.”

Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

“The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.”
Section 3, Chapter 10, p. 236
The Gods Themselves (1972)

“I couldn't think of one clever way to stop this guy, so I just trusted to mindless violence.”
Source: Doom Patrol, Vol. 1: Crawling from the Wreckage
Source: A Midsummer Tights Dream

“Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven”

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back”
Variant: You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.”
Source: The Celestine Prophecy: A Pocket Guide to the Nine Insights
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World (1968), Ch. 9 : The Scroll Marked II, p. 59.
Context: Henceforth I will look upon all things with love and I will be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness because it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness because it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards because they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles because they are my challenge.
I will greet this day with love in my heart.

“Sometimes I think I’ll never trust another girl the way I trust you.”
Source: We'll Always Have Summer

“In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.”

Source: Miracle of the Rose

“I'm LEP. A captain. No rent-a-cop gnome is going to stand in the way of my orders.”
Source: The Arctic Incident

“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.”
Source: The Thanatos Syndrome
Source: Lover Avenged

“By the way, don’t breathe on the upholstery or I may have to gut you. (Nick)”
Source: Infinity

“Things change all the time, mostly in little ways.”
Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.”
Source: On the Edge