#damned

My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment. Advancing beside Archer, I am resplendent in my savage finery of seized power. In my service charge the collected blackguards of a dozen tyrants now dispatched to a lesser oblivion. My fingers, stained crimson with the blood of despots, are not the fingers which paged through the paper lives of helpless romantic heroines. No more am I a passive damsel who waits for circumstance to decide her fate; now have I become the scalawag, the swashbuckler, the Heathcliff of my dreams bent on rescuing myself. For now do I embody all the traits I had so hoped to find in Goran. Meaning: No longer am I limited. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#damned #dreams

Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world. ↗

— John Cheever

#case #damned #despair #guided #inspired

Audiences always sound like they're glad to see me, and I'm damned glad to see them. ↗

— Claudette Colbert

#audiences #damned #glad #i #like

Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#beauty

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#car #cities #damned #forget #friends

I don't care a straw for your newspaper articles, my constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures. ↗

— Boss Tweed

#care #constituents #damned #help #how

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#damned #getting #hear #i #i am

I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it. ↗

— Margaret Laurence

#damned #happened #life #change

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long. ↗

— James Lovelock

#damned #florida #gone #long #place

You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press I've been both. Its impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#been #both #damned #everyone #heavy