“I’ve never been so frightened for somebody in my life: I felt totally powerless. You can’t punch extradimensional parasites out of your boyfriend’s brain.”

— Charles Stross , The Laundry Files

Source: The Laundry Files, The Labyrinth Index (2018), Chapter 6, “Leviathan’s Representative” (p. 193)

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British science fiction writer and blogger 1964

Jia Tolentino (1988) American writer and editor

On whether she considers herself hopeful in “Jia Tolentino: What It’s Like Being the Most Talked About Millennial Writer” https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/11896/jia-tolentino-trick-mirror-book-interview-new-yorker-staff-writer-2019 in AnOther (2019 Sep 15)

“You can’t really yell at your boyfriend for stealing your seat and your best friend. You also can’t yell at your best friend for stealing your boyfriend. Or you can…but Hi seemed like a much easier way to start the morning.”

Ally Carter Out of Sight, Out of Time

Source: Out of Sight, Out of Time

“Why does he have to be my boyfriend? Are you inferior if you don't have a boyfriend? Why does everybody have to be in love with somebody?”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“What a son I’ve made. The midwives must have turned me in my labor so that I lay on your brain and crushed it.”

Tanith Lee book The Storm Lord

Book 5, “The Serpent Wakes” Chapter 21 (p. 286)
The Storm Lord (1976)

“The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book…. I've never been involved in Wall Street, I've never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I'd like to have somebody intimately familiar with it.”

John McCain (1936–2018) politician from the United States

Referring to a potential Vice President, 18 December 2007 http://www.newsweek.com/id/103730/page/3 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/opinion/14krugman.html?_r=3&hp&oref=slogin&oref=login&oref=slogin
2000s, 2007

“So I kept pulling my punches. And later I realised that was a mistake. Life doesn’t spare the kind of people who I write about, so I felt like it would be dishonest to spare my characters in that way.”

Jesmyn Ward (1977) American writer

Source: On how she “protected” her characters in her first novel Where the Line Bleeds in “Jesmyn Ward: ‘Black girls are silenced, misunderstood and underestimated'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/11/jesmyn-ward-home-mississippi-living-with-addiction-poverty-racism in The Guardian (2018 May 11)

“Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

“I felt so much lighter. My joints felt smoother, everything felt better. I could run and breathe easier. … I’ve always been a guy who has done everything I can to help myself. Any little advantage I can find, I’m going to do it. I felt like this really gave me an edge. … It’s not too tough now. I would say the first six months, maybe a year, is pretty tough because you’re totally reprogramming what you look for to fill your plate up.”

Griff Whalen (1990) American Football player

About his switch to a vegan diet. "The Caw: Ravens WR Griff Whalen Is Vegan, and He May Be Converting Teammates", interview with BaltimoreRavens.com (29 August 2017) http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/article-1/The-Caw-Ravens-WR-Griff-Whalen-Is-Vegan-and-He-May-Be-Converting-Teammates/faf72bc3-e894-45d0-bd98-44d387a039ea.

“Being ambiguously flamboyant really does help. I’ve had so many people come up to me and be like, ‘I felt OK to come out of the closet after you said this.’ When someone says that to me -- it’s not an event I’ve ever been through, so I don’t know what to compare it to. I don’t think I even understand how important that is to someone’s life.”

Peter Wentz (1979) American musician

"This Charming Man," interview, Out.com (August 2008)

“I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

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