Vaporized
- “It’s only a phase.”
Maybe, and maybe the next phase is even worse. - "This can have a different ending, you know."
"The problem is that it already has a different beginning." - Stop that worrying: you're still plenty useful to them.
- Just because something doesn't change doesn't mean it stays the same.
- Don't act so surprised: what you told yourself was a sign of your innocence, you knew all along was actually your guilt.
- That man who was pestering you? He wasn't dealt with. He's just hiding someplace new.
- That lie you told came true.
- If it feels as though this will last forever, well, that's because it might.
- You can't touch your thoughts, but they can touch you. Consider yourself touched.
- The thing you're most ashamed of—have you given it enough attention lately?
- "When I want to know your opinion on politics, I'll ask for it."
"And when I want permission to speak, I'll ask for it." - I'm grateful for locutions like "To be honest" and "frankly", because, without them how, else would be acknowledge the mendacity inherent in human relationships?
- If I could reclaim all the time I spend trying to "fake-out" hands-free soap dispensers, paper towel dispensers, and hand sanitizer dispensers—trying to trick these machines into believing I am multiple persons—well, I’d have a lot of extra time on my hands. And by "extra time" I mean pathogens.
- Every time I have to sit through a boring committee meeting at work, I think of Auden’s poem “Spain”, and I remind myself that it’s all part of the struggle, the struggle against the Man, man. Then I remember that I am a man.
- The absence of locker loops on men’s sportswear is becoming a real social problem. The time to fight back is now! Vote with your checkbook; rediscover your inner power as a consumer, feel its potent strength coursing through your veins!! This is the rock on which we shall live, or else die. Tell Nike, tell Champion: we want locker loops on our navy blue hoodies, and we mean to have them.
- The expression "in fact" is rarely used to introduce factual information into a sentence.
- "She was just a flash in the pan": is it more degrading to be the "flash" in that metaphor, or the "pan"? Because I think we all know who is the pan.