#rote

He pictures amputated human arms flopping like fish down the center of the road; syringes floating on beds of liposuctioned fat; gelatinous human eyeballs wiggling merrily as they roll down the highway; and so on. He could imagine other such grotesque stuff, but chooses not to. ↗

— Dan Chaon

#grotesque #limbs #imagination

Good. Because I don't need protecting." "I knew you'd say that.But the thing is, sometimes you do. And sometimes I do. We're meant to protect each other, but not from everything. Not from the truth. That's what it means to love someone but let them be themselves. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#freedom #jace #love #protecting #freedom

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve. ↗

— Patrick Leahy

#copyright #create #draconian #holders #more

I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing. ↗

— Donald McKay

#begin #challenging #dialectical #down #fast

Secondly, security. Both the challenges we face in the world and the responsibilities that our country has in protecting our people, are major issues. We need to do more in the context of domestic security. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#challenges #context #country #domestic #face

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States. ↗

— Bill Owens

#am #domestic #focus #governor #i

I never let myself yearn for Buckley, afraid he might see my image in a mirror or a bottle cap. Like everyone else I was trying to protect him. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#love #protection #family

Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #people #protect #sad-truth #shots

If I breathe you in and you breathe me out, I swear we can breathe forever. I swear I’ll find summer in your winter and spring in your autumn and always, hands at the ends of your fingers, arms at the ends of your shoulders and I swear, when we run out of forever, when we run out of air, your name will be the last word that my lungs make air for. ↗

— Iain Thomas

#love #lovers #romantic #love

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#condoms #fisting #liberalism #oral-sex #protection