I am not the kind of person who becomes so invested in a book or movie or television show that my interest becomes a hobby or intense obsession, one where I start to declare allegiances or otherwise demonstrate a serious level of commitment to something fictional I had no hand in creating.

Or, I didn't used to be that kind of person.

Let me be clear: Team Peeta. I cannot fathom how one could be on any other team. Gale? I can barely acknowledge him. Peeta, on the other hand, is everything. He frosts things and bakes bread and is unconditional and unwavering in his love, and also he is very, very strong. He can throw a sack of four, is what I'm saying. Peeta is a place of solace and hope, and he is a good kisser.


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You can't control the fact that you are born a white man or born into wealth. When people say, &...
ROXANE GAY
We all have our vanities. The retouching magazines like 'Vogue' do is the professional versi...
ROXANE GAY
I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions...
ROXANE GAY
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier t...
ROXANE GAY
I recognize that I'm human, and the older I get, the more I realize how fallible I am, how falli...
ROXANE GAY
Lions, wolves, and vultures don't live together in herds, droves or flocks. Of all animals of pr...
JOHN GAY
I have known beaches, but I have no particular fondness for them. I don't like sand in my crevic...
ROXANE GAY
A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships tha...
ROXANE GAY
[When rescue teams arrived on the scene, they could not determine Patrick’s location. The truck ha...
DOUG GAY
Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I r...
JOHN GAY
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
JOHN GAY
In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.
JOHN GAY
I hate the man who builds his name on the ruins of another's fame.
JOHN GAY
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.
JOHN GAY
"Is there no hope?" the sick man said, The silent doctor shook his head, And took his leave wi...
JOHN GAY
The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see s...
ROXANE GAY
Every historian has informally an anthropology, without ever using the word.
PETER GAY
For celebrities, privacy is utterly nonexistent. You are asked intrusive questions about your person...
ROXANE GAY
A few words of gratitude and encouragement do bring out the best in other people.
FRANCIS GAY
My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is large...
PETER GAY
I played football in high school, I played baseball when I was younger, things like that, but I thin...
TYSON GAY
We have to believe that we can hold different points of view without labeling each other bad feminis...
ROXANE GAY
We have cellphones and smartphones and iDevices and laptops and the ability to be perpetually connec...
ROXANE GAY
We are looking into it. There was something that did transpire out there.
DOUG GAY
We came in and wanted to pound the ball at em. They (Colt players) talked a lot all week. I just let...
FRANK GAY
You'd have an instant decade-long waiting line.
JOHN GAY
Feminism is just an idea. It's a philosophy. It's about the equality of women in all realms....
ROXANE GAY
It's so hard to write about countries like Haiti because there's truths behind the mispercep...
ROXANE GAY
What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.
PETER GAY
My definition of modernism took a while to develop.
PETER GAY
I was a shy girl, but when I read, I was adventurous. Books made me bolder.
ROXANE GAY
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There&#...
ROXANE GAY
Do like other widows - buy yourself weeds, and be cheerful.
JOHN GAY
Fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise
JOHN GAY
The charge is prepared; the lawyers are met, / The judges all ranged (a terrible show!).
JOHN GAY
By ignorance is pride increased; Those most assume who know the least
JOHN GAY
(The bill) doesn't fix the system, it just focuses on enforcement.
JOHN GAY
Praising all alike, is praising none
JOHN GAY
I felt good if they ran the 1-3-1 against the offense we're using. Then we went out there and didn't...
JOHN GAY
No one likes employer sanctions,
JOHN GAY
What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Bl...
JOHN GAY
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedi...
JOHN GAY
By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated.
JOHN GAY
Originality provokes originality.
JOHN GAY
A woman scorn'd is pitiless as fate, For then the dread of shame adds stings to hate.
JOHN GAY
'While there is life, there's hope,' he cried; 'Then why such haste?' so groaned and died
JOHN GAY
To cheat a man is nothing; but the woman must have fine parts, indeed, who cheats a woman
JOHN GAY
'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, / By her we first were taught the wheedling arts.
JOHN GAY
When we risk no contradiction, it prompts the tongue to deal in fiction
JOHN GAY
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect...
JOHN GAY
We only part to meet again. / Change, as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be / The faithful compass...
JOHN GAY
We are frustrated with the broken immigration system. It doesn't match the economic reality.
JOHN GAY
A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Si...
JOHN GAY
Employers are frustrated because there is so much paperwork and oftentimes you don't know if things ...
JOHN GAY