Barnette Quotes

People are darkened rooms, and each person they choose to include in their lives is a beam of light, uncovering some new, previously hidden part of them. ~ Abigail Barnette

You don't want to get in that line ... it's fucking long ~ Abigail Barnette

Call me old fashioned, but I kind of enjoy the so-called 'walk of shame.' It's really more a 'walk of pride because I got some. ~ Abigail Barnette

But the best part of catching Neil in the shower was, hands down, the loud, awful singing. ~ Abigail Barnette

If something happens and you should cry about it, it's better to laugh and get the fuck over it. ~ Abigail Barnette

Parenting fucked you up. ~ Abigail Barnette

Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity. . . . Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

It seems trite but necessary to say that the First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority. We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. ~ Robert H. Jackson

We'd spent eleven hours together. That had to be some kind of record for a second date that didn't involve a sleepover or a kidnapping. ~ Abigail Barnette

It was like he'd sprung fully-formed from my eighteen-year-old fantasies, the hot History teacher who just couldn't help himself. ~ Abigail Barnette

Nobody can control their emotional reactions, we can only control our actions, and my current action was to slap my jealousy in the face and shove her in a vat of shut the fuck up. ~ Abigail Barnette

Yes, one of the benefits of being embarrassingly rich is that you find out if you have syphilis much earlier than the average peasant would. ~ Abigail Barnette

But with white liberals overusing the word (racism) to influence elections because they can't effectively argue the merit of an issue is weakening a very powerful tool to push back against real acts of racism. ~ Kathy Barnette

I could only imagine the prenup I'd have to sign: In the event of a divorce, Mrs. Scaife- Elwood will receive eleventy- bajillion dollars and Mr. Elwood will continue to blame himself for the dissolution of the marriage and the ruining of Mrs. Scaife- Elwood's life, in perpetuity, even though it's probably not his fault. ~ Abigail Barnette

The cancer bubble. It's almost like he's not here. Like he's on pause, and my life with him is on pause, and we're just waiting to see if somebody is going to hit play again or just stop the thing entirely. ~ Abigail Barnette

I love you so much that I regret having memories that don't include you. ~ Abigail Barnette

I didn't have a lot of fighting experience, but I would punch an octopus if I had to, to save a life. ~ Abigail Barnette