“I’m not oversensitive. I’m just analyzing your supposedly innocent commentary.”
—E. Lockart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
April 2013
2 posts
“
So here’s the part where you make a choice. What if you could have that power…now? In every generation, one Slayer is born…because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. But this woman is more powerful than all of them combined. So I say we change the rule. I say my power…should be our power.
From now on, every girl in the world who might be a Slayer will be a Slayer. Every girl who could have the power will have the power. Can stand up, will stand. Slayers, every one of us.
” —Buffy Summers, Buffy the Vampire SlayerMarch 2013
2 posts
“Stepping away from here will be like going into battle.”
—Alethea Kontis, Enchanted
“Everyone leaves home in the end.”
—Rose Tyler, Doctor Who
February 2013
2 posts
“You’ve come a long way. You can make it the whole way if you are stubborn enough. I know you are stubborn. Up. Stand up.”
—Rachel Neumeier, The City in the Lake
January 2013
2 posts
“No one writes songs about the ones that come easy.”
—Veronica Mars
December 2012
3 posts
“They show us that a great spirit is still great even when it doesn’t win, that aspiration, courage and hope, however doomed, are virtues in their own right.”
—Laura Miller, Tyranny of the happy ending
November 2012
8 posts
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?”
—John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“But I think the problem now is much more subtle than it used to be, and sexism – if you like, chauvinism – is not as obvious; it doesn’t hit you over the head, maybe. It’s very insidious, very subtle, the ways that women might still be kept down.”
—Melissa Kite, Feminism – a spent force or fit for the 21st century?
“Once you’ve arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.”
—Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
October 2012
6 posts
“
The laundry can wait. So can the dishes.
Our emails and mobile phones too.
We could sit naked by the window
if we dared, or we could catch the news.
I could watch you struggle not to doze
off during the sports announcements.
There will be plenty of time for sleep.
Since you asked, the plants are watered.
The light has stopped flickering, since
I replaced the bulb. Who knows, the dishes
might clean themselves after we are gone.
How about if we add an extra hour
to our day, so we may fill it with sighs?
There will be plenty of time for sleep.
For now, let us settle into the dimness
of evening, our talk like the passing
of a melody from one instrument
to another. Are you worried about how
early you would have to go to work
tomorrow? Take a breath. Look at me.
There will be plenty of time for sleep.
