#emo

He paused, his smug grin turning wicked as his eyes met mine. “We could always have sex. I hear that uses up a lot of energy. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#obsidian #energy

The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have come from and where we are going to, for sifting through the things we have done and the things we have left undone for a clue to who we are and who, for better or worse, we are becoming. But again and again we avoid the long thoughts….We cling to the present out of wariness of the past. And why not, after all? We get confused. We need such escape as we can find. But there is a deeper need yet, I think, and that is the need—not all the time, surely, but from time to time—to enter that still room within us all where the past lives on as a part of the present, where the dead are alive again, where we are most alive ourselves to turnings and to where our journeys have brought us. The name of the room is Remember—the room where with patience, with charity, with quietness of heart, we remember consciously to remember the lives we have lived. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#remembering #remembrance #consciousness

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#waiting #memory

History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#memory

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#politics #rebellion #rebellion

Ultimate horror often paralyses memory in a merciful way. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#memory #psychology #horror

...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#democracy-voting #election #elections #false-promises #government

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#government #politics #republican #elections

Elections determine who is in power, but they do not determine how power is used. ↗

— Paul Collier

#elections #power #elections

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment. ↗

— Sheri Holman

#election #elections