#nit

See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#rixon #eternity

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#masculinity #personal-responsibility #socialism

A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#indifference #shyness #vanity #devil

Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#devil

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with those berries, none of this would’ve happened. Peeta could have come home and lived, and everyone else would have been safe, too.” “Safe to do what?” he says in a gentler tone. “Starve? Work like slaves? Send their kids to the reaping? You haven’t hurt people – you’ve given them an opportunity. They just have to be brave enough to take it. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#opportunity #rebellion #rebellion

Sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll is easy. True christianity…that's rebellion. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#rock-n-roll #rebellion

I am constantly amazed by man's inhumanity to man. ↗

— Primo Levi

#mankind #mankind

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#humanity #mankind #mercy #mankind

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it." [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2] ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#darkness #fiction #human #humanity #mankind

People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#virginity #advice