Archived Quotes

There have been times when I've wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing is, what we do, it's in our blood. It's who we are. Normal wouldn't fit us, even if we wanted to wear it. ~ Victoria Schwab

The concern scientists had regarding passenger viruses was not unfounded. You may recall the disastrous SV40 monkey virus which contaminated the polio vaccines. There are scientists who claim this virus is the cause of multiple human cancers. On CDC's website a page on vaccine safety, which was suddenly removed (archived copies exist), states that: "SV40 virus has been found in certain types of cancer in humans, but it has not been determined that SV40 causes these cancers. ~ James Morcan

There are harsher things I could say, things I've compiled and archived, each with a catalog card. ~ Erika Swyler

Isn't it strange? It's like after they die, you're only allowed to remember the good. But no one's all good. ~ Victoria Schwab

That was a version of history reliant on a narrow range of official summaries and gubernatorial archives created and archived by the most dubious sources - southern whites who engineered and most directly profited from the system. It overlooked many of the most significant dimensions of the new forced labor, including the centrality of its role in the web of restrictions put in place to suppress black citizenship, its concomitant relationship to debt peonage and the worst forms of sharecropping, and an exponentially larger number of African Americans compelled into servitude through the most informal - and tainted - local courts. ~ Douglas A. Blackmon

Failure should be archived in head, not heart! ~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

In the digital economy, everything is archived, catalogued, readily available, and yet nothing really endures. ~ Masha Tupitsyn

And besides, if my soul's impeccable taste in music throws you off, then learn to tune me out. ~ Victoria Schwab

Now, as I look around at a room filled not only with boxes but plenty of its own marks, I want to know the stories behind them. Or rather, a part of me wants to know those stories. The other part of me thinks that's the worst idea in the world, but I don't listen to that part. Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy, Da's warning echoes in my head, and I know; but there are no Histories here to feel sympathy for. Which is exactly why the Archive wouldn't approve. They don't approve of any form of recreational reading. ~ Victoria Schwab

At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups. ~ Graham Nelson

Of the four men in Preston Prichard's cabin, D-90, only one survived, his friend Arthur Gadsden. Prichard's body was never recovered, yet in the red volume that now contains the beautifully archived replies to Mrs. Prichard's letters there exists a surprisingly vivid sense of him, as though he resided still in the peripheral vision of the world. ~ Erik Larson

Maybe late afternoon is autumn; summer's retreat
not being archived, but suspended, as the feathered
vane of a bird wings its way across the avenue. ~ Michelle Cahill

Knowledge is power," she finishes, and I open my eyes to find her rounding the chair, "but ignorance can be a blessing. ~ Victoria Schwab

If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay. ~ Amy Ray

She turns on her laptop, raises her spectacles to her face. She reads the day's headlines. But they might be from any day. A click can take her from breaking news to articles archived years ago. At every moment the past is there, appended to the present. It's a version of Bela's definition, in childhood, of yesterday. ~ Jhumpa Lahiri

In the Iraq war, for instance, so much of the information is digitized and can easily be wiped out. That will make it very hard to write accurate histories. Also, there's a much greater opportunity for suppression of information before it can even be archived. ~ Antony Beevor

Freedom is not archived by satisfying desire, but by eliminating it. ~ Epictetus

I can see why my daughter likes you."
"Do you think she's falling for my dashing good looks, my charm, or the fact that I supply her with pastries? ~ Victoria Schwab

So all of it - local and archived data - went up with the lab building. Vann glanced over to me with an expression that I suspect meant these people were sloppy. ~ John Scalzi

You are crazy," he says. "You are a crazy, amazing girl. And you scare the hell out of me." I smile. ~ Victoria Schwab