Kim Wright Quotes

Men deprived of female company quickly became fearsome creatures, and Trevor believed you could argue that civilization was in fact the invention of women, or at least the invention of the men who wanted to please them. If it were not for the ladies, Trevor often proclaimed, especially after a few beers, humanity would doubtlessly still be roaming the forests in animal skins. But

This is what progress does, you know. Each step into the future makes us ever so much grander and more demanding and thus ever so slightly less human.

If you want a man to trust you, ask him for a favor. Most people get this part wrong. They try to win people over by offering something to them, but humans instinctively recoil from those who help them. They like the people that they help far better, even if the favor granted is as small as a cigarette.

I expect more from my life than the opportunity to be useful to a man.

You can love one man and leave another and love a man and still leave him and leave a man without ever loving him, you can fuck everybody you meet or live like a nun and in the end you still wind up at Target.

Scoff if you wish, but there is something morally dangerous in this endless variety of amusements that our era claims to provide. Soon there will be no word for "contentment" in the English language, for we shall no longer feel content and thus have no need to describe it.

And despite it all, he has never been able to abandon hope that his betters will someday notice him. Will someday accept him as one of their own.
It is the failing of his lifetime.

I keep a pen in my hand so that I can underline anything that strikes me as particularly interesting or well written - it's a quirk left over from my days in graduate school.

There's no such thing as fate. It's just the word men give to decisions which have worked out badly.

She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

It's true," I admit. I put two fingers up to my throat to feel my pulse. "I've never trusted anybody to catch me.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.

The blending, of course, is the challenge. Most creatures who are special cannot seem to stop themselves from announcing the fact, despite the dangers that come with being different from the rest of your species. If you tie a red string around a wren's leg, the others in the flock will peck it to death.

Religion is nothing more than the study of other people's experiences with God. But true spirituality is the opportunity to have your own experience with God.

It is not hard to fool people when they do not want to know the truth.

If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty ... that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.

In novels, women run off with their lovers. In real life, women stay.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.