So that’s your sister?” asks Dee in a quiet voice. “Yeah.” “The one you risked your life for?” “Yeah.” The twins nod politely in that automatic way that people do when they don’t want to say something insulting. “Your family any better?” I ask. Dee and Dum look at each other, assessing. “Nah,” says Dee. “Not really,” says Dum at the same time.
Susan Ee
Related I'm gonna be sick," I said "I'm ordering you not to," says Obi. "Ah, don't say that," says... SUSAN EE Have you ever been in love?" I ask, turning on my side to look at him. He stares up at the sky. Blin... TAHEREH MAFI O woman, father says natural is beautiful so why do you redden your cheeks and blac... KAMAND KOJOURI You’re smarter than you look,’ I say to Raffe. ‘But not as smart as he thinks,’ s... SUSAN EE Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I reme... ERIN MORGENSTERN Um, I don’t know your name but -” “Knight,” “Right, Mr. Knight-” “No, K... KRISTEN ASHLEY The Pretender Keep you in the dark you know they all pretend Keep you in the dark an... FOO FIGHTERS Better associations __________________ If you associate yourself with a change maker... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It offends me when you doubt my love. These jealousies are unwarranted. If only you lived ... KAMAND KOJOURI Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will b... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR It’s midnight!” he says frantically, slapping at the door. “Call her. Call your roommate!” COLLEEN HOOVER I'm not sure I even believe in marriage," Hadley says and he looks surprised. "Aren't you... JENNIFER E. SMITH Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I r... VERONICA ROTH I thought it could be something, I mean, eventually." Harrison finally looks at us. "My life I thoug... COURTNEY SUMMERS Don’t pack out ______________ To some people, you make life bright When you d... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Did you just tell us you're gay?" Asks Nick "Yes." "Okay," he says. Abby swats him. "What?... BECKY ALBERTALLI I hope one day somebody loves you so much that they see violets in the bags unde... TRISTA MATEER You aren't happy," Estela says. "I can't be happy," I say. "Look at me, Kenzie." "I'm... BETH KEPHART it's not his body that changes right away. it's something inside. he says h... DAVID LEVITHAN Josh, you saw him," Tally says, "What did he look like? Did he look nice?" "He looked lik... SEVENTHSWAN Did you win your sword fight?" "Of course I won the fucking sword fight," Hiro says. "I'm the g... NEAL STEPHENSON You know I'll be Your Life Your Voice Your Reason To Be My Love My Heart... ONE DIRECTION Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. "You want ... PATRICIA MCCORMICK I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'ro... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You possess other people's...bodies." He accepted that statement with a nod. "... BECCA FITZPATRICK Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road T... GREEN DAY Scared, Cold, in pain, the dust hasn't settled yet. Pinned in, crying, my clothes are ripp... RALPH ALLEN The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. ... KAMAND KOJOURI For your penance," the Bishop said finally, "say three rosaries, one for each year of your sinful li... ROSAMUND HODGE Any other questions?" "Just one," I say. "What color are your eyes?" I want to know what he thi... ALLY CONDIE FORBIDDEN Pain without learning is forbidden, waking up one day not knowing what to do, JOSé N. HARRIS To express is to drive. And when you want to give something presence, you have to consult n... LOUIS KAHN I don’t have any fancy story, about the way we fell in love. It was that one awkward mov... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER Remember The Dream You have a choice Your heart will know You gotta look back s... JAMES INGRAM It’s one thing to have a support system in your life to cheer you on during the instances whe... ALICIA COOK True enough. I say this all the time. Trez looked at his hands. “I didn’t ask for thi... J.R. WARD It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' Th... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Envy said, “Girl, I remember well, ye, who I flung from Hell, and not a day has passed, ... A. LEE BROCK Remember that good things come in three's. And so do bad things. And always apologize when... SARAH KAY To all those who care, You can't forever. Time steals the years, And your reflectio... CRYSTAL WOODS This poem is very long So long, in fact, that your attention span May be stretched to its ... COLLEEN HOOVER There were once two sisters who shared the same room, the same clothes, the same thoughts... JANDY NELSON Overheard on a Saltmarsh" Nymph, nymph, what are your beads? Green glass, gobl... HAROLD MONRO and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off... DAVID LEVITHAN Is she your Daughter of Man?' He nods toward me. 'She is a Daughter of Man. And she is travelin... SUSAN EE I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid ... CAROL ANN DUFFY Stop a minute and listen. I know I'm asking the impossible from you, but for once in your life, shut... SHERRILYN KENYON Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-... WENDELL BERRY You start dying slowly if you do not travel, if you do not read, If you do not lis... MARTHA MEDEIROS What can I tell you about the alchemy of twins? Twins are two bodies that dance KAMAND KOJOURI Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet y... DEREK WALCOTT Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s... RICK RIORDAN Don’t worry…three vampire meanies and a horse won’t keep me away from you.” Kali... KAILIN GOW I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved... ANDREA GIBSON MOTHER IS WATER I wish I could Shower your head with flowers And anoint your fe... SUZY KASSEM Don’t you dare say these times are hollow Just because there are storms raging by. Just ... MELITA TESSY Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to harnes... ELLEN HOPKINS Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track t... JOSEPH CAMPBELL But he grins, so brilliantly, not even paying attention. “I love it when you say my name,” he sa... TAHEREH MAFI He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He s... EMILY DICKINSON I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love. PITTACUS LORE She raised an eyebrow. "You got something to say to me, Seaweed Brain?" You'd probably ki... RICK RIORDAN Don’t mourn your luck that’s failing now, work gone wrong, your plans all proving dece... CONSTANTINOS P. CAVAFIS I am, O Anxious One. Don’t you hear my voice surging forth with all my earthly feelings? RAINER MARIA RILKE for the fifth time this month you say you’re going to leave him he calls you a cunt over... WARSAN SHIRE You starting to feel hope yet?" Viola asks, her voice curious. "No," I say, fuddling my noise. ... PATRICK NESS Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter... PABLO NERUDA Titus, have you ever had your heart broken?” “Oh, son. How could you ask a man who us... ZACK LOVE The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own d... DEREK WALCOTT 10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer Write. Write more. Write even more. W... BRIAN CLARK Dee loves it here. Before you came, she spent most of her days here." To Daemon, my arrival was... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT If I'm a bad person, you don't like me Well I guess I'll make my own way It's a circle HAYLEY WILLIAMS May your love for me be like the scent of the evening sea drifting in thr... SANOBER KHAN If You Forget Me I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: PABLO NERUDA Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answe... SARAH DESSEN They tell us the only way to move on is to forget. “Forgive,” they say. Realise ... KAMAND KOJOURI I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we hav... NEAL SHUSTERMAN Beauty is frightening," they will tell you — Lazily you will arrange A Spani... ALEXANDER BLOK so your father told you once that you were his princess you won't see the castle you ... HAYLEY WILLIAMS Dear Fellow Human Being, You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed! Te... JASZ GILL eat, baby. eat. chew. please. I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good. CAITLYN SIEHL Shivers heaved out a sigh. “Just trying to make tomorrow that bit better than today is all. I’m ... JOE ABERCROMBIE If you're anything like me, You bite your nails, And laugh when you're nervous. You p... TAYLOR SWIFT Hello? This is Clary Fairchild.” “Clary? It’s me, Emma.” “Oh, Emma, ... CASSANDRA CLARE When you are doing all that you know to do yet all hell is breaking out around you, SANJO JENDAYI All right, so give me some idea of what you can do," says Haymitch. I can’t do anything... SUZANNE COLLINS People always ask me "Son what does it take To reach out and touch your dreams?" To t... TIM MCGRAW Believe me when I say: 'Out of all those around, she’s the best locksmith in town.' KAMAND KOJOURI The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, JEFFREY MCDANIEL Don't bow your head! It gets even harder... Look at me and say that, what was i... ZORICA SAVRON Looks like nobody’s home,” Puck said, turning in a slow circle. “Hellooooooooo? Anybody here?�... JULIE KAGAWA Katie says, "You can't choose the time and place the when and where with whom you fall in love." SARAH TREGAY ... so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and love and... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON DON'T SAY, DO Do not say things You think I want to hear. Instead, S... SUZY KASSEM Will you call me before Christmas?' she asks. Maybe.' I pull on my vest, wondering why I even c... BRET EASTON ELLIS Pray each morning and each night. Talk to God and be polite. Tell Him what you're grateful... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Dear Fellow Human Being, You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed! Te... JASZ GILL A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay... CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTéS If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. PABLO NERUDA
More Susan Ee
My dad once told me life would get complicated when I grew up. I’m guessing this isn’t what he m... SUSAN EE I'm just saying you should pick a man who knows that he's not worthy of you and who will dedicate hi... SUSAN EE When you're small enough to have to look up at everyone around you, there's no such thing as a dirty... SUSAN EE I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll... SUSAN EE As far as I can tell, a leader ends up doing all the worrying and still needs to pitch in for the re... SUSAN EE Don't let my appearance fool you, Penryn. I am not human. The Daughters of Men are forbidden to Ange... SUSAN EE I never thought about it before, but I'm proud to be human. We're ever so flawed. We're frail, confu... SUSAN EE I knew from the start that your loyalty would get you killed. I just never thought it would be your ... SUSAN EE My friends call me Wrath,” says Raffe. “My enemies call me Please Have Mercy. What’s your name... SUSAN EE He glares at me as if he already hates it. “What is it?” I consider lying but what’s the point... SUSAN EE You're naming your collector's-item, kick-ass sword that's made to maim and kill, specifically desig... SUSAN EE Come on, admit it, Pooky Bear," I said to the sword. "You love your new look. All the other swords w... SUSAN EE Raffe arches his brow at me. ‘You should be with a nice human boy. One who takes your orders and p... SUSAN EE You’re smarter than you look,’ I say to Raffe. ‘But not as smart as he thinks,’ s... SUSAN EE They won’t let any part of him fall to the ground,” says Raffe in a quiet voice. “His brothers... SUSAN EE What’s wrong with going with me?’ I ask. ‘No one wants to be stuck with love birds.’ H... SUSAN EE It is not the gentle kiss of a couple on a first date, nor is it the kiss of a man driven by simple ... SUSAN EE This is Penryn Young, Daughter of Man, Killer of Angels. SUSAN EE Is she your Daughter of Man?' He nods toward me. 'She is a Daughter of Man. And she is travelin... SUSAN EE Have you named her yet?” he asks. “She likes powerful names so maybe you could appease her by gi... SUSAN EE My mother hums a haunting melody, one that I think she made up. She used to sing it to us when she w... SUSAN EE I shove the wooden debris out of the way until I see the smudged face of the teddy bear. “There sh... SUSAN EE A little weird? That was freakin' Bizarroville." He pauses and looks back at me. "Are you... SUSAN EE She wasn’t made to be alone.” “I guess none of us are.” Our eyes meet and an ele... SUSAN EE One second, we are surrounded by angels holding their swords. The next second, one of their arms dro... SUSAN EE You're not Fallen are you?" "From everything I've heard, that would just make me more sexy to y... SUSAN EE It's about time you showed some sense. You should be afraid." "I'm shivering because I'm freezi... SUSAN EE I'm gonna be sick," I said "I'm ordering you not to," says Obi. "Ah, don't say that," says... SUSAN EE ...."Penryn, who are you talking to?" My mother sounds almost frantic now. "Just my own p... SUSAN EE I'm not an actress and I suck at lying. I am also far from being a seductress. It's hard to practice... SUSAN EE I never kid about my warrior demigod status." "Oh. My. God." I lower my voice, having forgotte... SUSAN EE Here, I’ll show you how to use it. Let me see your foot.” “That’s a pretty intimate dem... SUSAN EE Anybody that ties you to a chair at gunpoint is a bad guy. Do I really need to explain this? SUSAN EE The next time you have a quarrel with me, I'd appreciate it if you could just talk to me first befor... SUSAN EE You're like a little girl demanding answers to questions during a covert operation. Why is the sky b... SUSAN EE Why were the other angels attacking you?" "It's impolite to ask the victim of violence wh... SUSAN EE How long did you resist?” asks Uriel. “Did you push her away? Did you tell her she meant no more... SUSAN EE I must have been seriously frustrated by my lack of sword-fighting skills to make all this up. My dr... SUSAN EE I want to see this video," I say. "Seriously?" asks Tattoo. "Want popcorn too? SUSAN EE The only thing that matters in the end is your own survival. It's what humans and cockroaches are be... SUSAN EE This sword is not just an angel sword. She’s an archangel sword. Better than an angel sword, in ca... SUSAN EE Tell me about Raffe." Nothing. "okay. Let's practice fighting," I said in an enthusiastic ... SUSAN EE I stroke his hair and repeat the words of comfort he whispered to me the last time we were together.... SUSAN EE Raffe looks over at the bloody knife in my hand. "If I still had any doubts that it was you, that wo... SUSAN EE Show me your memories of the kiss.” I close my eyes. The heat creeps up my cheeks, which is silly ... SUSAN EE If we get separated there’s not much hope of us ever meeting anywhere, but I need to keep up the p... SUSAN EE The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing ... SUSAN EE What if they don’t let us go through?” I ask, trying not to move my lips. “They will,”... SUSAN EE I'll be sure not to let anyone but you carry me in her arms." He turns and leaves the kitchen before... SUSAN EE I've never killed anyone before. What frightens me isn't that I'm killing someone. What frightens me... SUSAN EE If I were human, I’d plow the nicest farm for you.’ He sounds completely sincere. ‘Better than... SUSAN EE You broke me out of the grasp of a living horror when I thought all hope was gone. You gave me the o... SUSAN EE I kick him in the face point blank with my high heel. He wasn't expecting that. The Angel ... SUSAN EE I can't stop thinking about my past, and it drives me crazy EE When you think you have friends, and you need them at your darkest times, they won't come for you...... EE You never realize how alone you are until you're really alone... EE Please, don't leave me alone with my thoughts... They'll kill me in an instant EE To really understand someone, you must be able to see things their way before you judge them EE You never know how much you love someone until you have to live without them EE to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else... EE CUMMINGS to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else... EE CUMMINGS Always the more beautiful answer who asks the more beautiful question. EE CUMMINGS I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approa... SUSAN ORLEAN Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in th... SUSAN POWTER At the end of the day, both men and women who become CEOs have showed tenacity and hard work to succ... SUSAN WOJCICKI Coming out of the Louvre for the first time in 1971, dizzy with new love, I stood on Pont Neuf and m... SUSAN VREELAND Winter in the country is very white. There is black grit on all the shoulders of the roads and on th... SUSAN ORLEAN A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder... SUSAN ORLEAN My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug... SUSAN HAYWARD When I travel, I always take my Winsor & Newton watercolor kit, which is the size of a pack of c... SUSAN MINOT To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, ... SUSAN ORLEAN I've been married so long, I am on my third bottle of Tabasco sauce. SUSAN VASS A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considere... SUSAN SONTAG The writer is either a practicing recluse or a delinquent, guilt-ridden one; or both. Usually both. SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write... SUSAN SONTAG Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we... SUSAN ERTZ Soaring prescription drug costs have placed a tremendous strain on family budgets. They have also im... SUSAN COLLINS My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natu... SUSAN EGAN One of the things I was hoping to do in the Secretary of the State's Office when I came was to p... SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I want to let my friend Buster know that I would like to have dinner with him tonight. Does Buster w... SUSAN ORLEAN The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t... SUSAN RICE I can't begin to count how many times I have warned politicians and candidates to worry as much ... SUSAN ESTRICH My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island ... SUSAN ISAACS I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and nee... SUSAN SARANDON I'll never throw away my blue jeans. SUSAN FORD So much of memory comes from the beginning of our lives when we know the world for the first time wi... SUSAN SHREVE Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviou... SUSAN ESTRICH We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. SUSAN TAYLOR Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag. SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp... SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precio... SUSAN SONTAG I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors... SUSAN ORLEAN After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short... SUSAN VREELAND Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be bo... SUSAN SARANDON It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the fin... SUSAN SONTAG Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating th... SUSAN SONTAG We have a great location between Boston and New York, a highly educated work force, and Connecticut ... SUSAN BYSIEWICZ I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an ans... SUSAN OLSEN I would rather be at Reggae Sunsplash, which happens once a year, than doing some horrible Brady Bun... SUSAN OLSEN Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but ... SUSAN CAIN War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view realistically; that is,... SUSAN SONTAG Reality Check His lying is not contigent on who you are or what you do. His lying is not your f... SUSAN FORWARD Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to the... SUSAN SONTAG Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate... SUSAN SONTAG American energy is the energy of violence, of free-floating resentment and anxiety unleashed by chro... SUSAN SONTAG The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of A... SUSAN SONTAG Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intelle... SUSAN SONTAG The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own expe... SUSAN SONTAG In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art ... SUSAN SONTAG Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra... SUSAN SONTAG Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading towa... SUSAN SONTAG I believe in using words, not fists... I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on... SUSAN SARANDON What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG The more interesting life becomes, in other words, the more boredom we are doomed to experience. SUSAN MAUSHART When the enemy has no face, society will invent one. SUSAN FALUDI Ah, Macy Joleen O'James, I love you. More than I ever knew it was possible to love someone. I want t... SUSAN ANDERSEN Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe... SUSAN SONTAG The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. SUSAN SONTAG She knew with painful certainty that the opposite of love was not hate, but indifference. SUSAN WIGGS Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The questio... SUSAN SONTAG We all go through the same things - it's just a different kind of the same thing SUSAN GLASPELL And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to tak... SUSAN KAY A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [Speech upon being awa... SUSAN SONTAG Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. SUSAN SONTAG Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more ... SUSAN SONTAG It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, preciou... SUSAN SONTAG Unfortunately, moral beauty in art -- like physical beauty in a person -- is extremely perishable. I... SUSAN SONTAG Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, e... SUSAN SONTAG The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. SUSAN SONTAG The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. SUSAN SONTAG It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph -- only less inter... SUSAN SONTAG In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents ... SUSAN SONTAG The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontroll... SUSAN SONTAG The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjec... SUSAN SONTAG Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. SUSAN SONTAG You're only has good as your last haircut. SUSAN LEE Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be ... SUSAN SONTAG With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the char... SUSAN SONTAG The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty -- of the indefinite expansion ... SUSAN SONTAG Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s... SUSAN SONTAG Perversity is the muse of modern literature. SUSAN SONTAG Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ... SUSAN SONTAG One person's constant is another person's variable. SUSAN GERHART Ambition if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. SUSAN SONTAG Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it gro... SUSAN COOLIDGE In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret. SUSAN SONTAG A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains o... SUSAN SONTAG Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest sub... SUSAN SONTAG What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death. SUSAN SONTAG What pornographic literature does is precisely to drive a wedge between one's existence as a full hu... SUSAN SONTAG Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative... SUSAN SONTAG I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. SUSAN SONTAG Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in ou... SUSAN SONTAG Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style -- but a particular kind of style. It is love of the... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon... SUSAN ERTZ Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of men... SUSAN SONTAG Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. SUSAN SHAUGHNESSY Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms,... SUSAN SONTAG Depression is melancholy minus its charms -- the animation, the fits. SUSAN SONTAG We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting... SUSAN SONTAG A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated sp... SUSAN SONTAG Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence,... SUSAN SONTAG AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It ... SUSAN SONTAG AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder... SUSAN SONTAG Always think of your customers as suppliers first. Work closely with them, so they can supply you wi... SUSAN MARTHALLER I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a pa... SUSAN SONTAG Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism SUSAN SONTAG The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. SUSAN SONTAG Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness -- pushing us... SUSAN SONTAG Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone n... SUSAN SONTAG The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ... SUSAN SONTAG Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks differe... SUSAN CHEEVER What we need is to use what we have. SUSAN SONTAG Sanity is a cozy lie. SUSAN SONTAG Enthusiasm is contagious. Be a carrier. SUSAN RABIN It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. SUSAN SONTAG In the final analysis, style is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized,... SUSAN SONTAG The discovery of the good taste of bad taste can be very liberating. The man who insists on high and... SUSAN SONTAG Taste has no system and no proofs. SUSAN SONTAG The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture... SUSAN SONTAG One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoo... SUSAN ERTZ To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do. SUSAN BLOW Feel the fear and do it anyway. SUSAN JEFFERS What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women... SUSAN SONTAG We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally. SUSAN CAIN The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o... SUSAN SONTAG Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. SUSAN ERTZ Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr... SUSAN RICE Painting keeps me occupied in those moments when travel can be aimless and even disorienting. Mainly... SUSAN MINOT If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur... SUSAN RICE Now we're e-mailing and tweeting and texting so much, a phone call comes as a fresh surprise. I ... SUSAN ORLEAN I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kind... SUSAN SONTAG Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide som... SUSAN LIEBERMAN I love my life, my family and my friends, and I'm drawn to 'relationship' novels because... SUSAN WIGGS Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some oth... SUSAN ESTRICH You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special th... SUSAN EGAN Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of cou... SUSAN GEORGE Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. SUSAN SONTAG