SLAUGHTERHOUSE 90210

• 2012-05-25

  

  “It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.”
  ― William Gaddis, The Recognitions

• 2012-05-24

  

  “A man’s power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
  ― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

• 2012-05-23

  

  “We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
  ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

• 2012-05-22

  

  “There is a long marriage between comedy and human suffering, and mental illness, in particular, is easily played for laughs….Sometimes it is hard to shake the feeling that, all jokes aside, there really is an epidemic of human suffering in the world, the full brunt of which is being borne, for now, by only a luckless few.”
  —Teju Cole, Open City

• 2012-05-21

  

  “Perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.”
  ― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

• 2012-05-18

  

  “She had to learn not to be afraid of a man, the way, in your childhood, you learned not be afraid of an earthworm or a bug.”
  –Lorrie Moore, Like Life

• 2012-05-17

  

  “I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.”
  ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

• 2012-05-16

  

  “I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how easy it is to leave the hybridity of the city, and enter into all-white spaces, the homogeneity of which, as far as I can tell, causes no discomfort to the whites in them.”
  — Teju Cole, Open City

• 2012-05-15

  

  “Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.” 
  ― Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life

• 2012-05-14

  

  “If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”
  ― George Eliot, Middlemarch