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I only snatched him to get your attention,” I said. “Now that I’ve got it, this is what I want.”
“Damn my dame!” Al shouted, hands raised to the ceiling. “I knew it! Not another list!
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Kim Harrison (White Witch, Black Curse (The Hollows, #7))
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Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another.
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Kim Harrison
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Uh... ," Ivy stammered, and I glanced up to see her eyes wide in consideration.
"I'm kidding," I said. "It passed the lethal-amulet test, remember?"
"Not that. You keep it in your underwear drawer?"
I hesitated, wondering why I was embarrassed. "Well, where do you put your elven magic?" I asked.
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Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction (The Hollows, #8))
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No one wears buckles anymore, and I decided to get him some real boots next winter solstice.Some sexy guy boots. Yeah.
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Kim Harrison (Black Magic Sanction (The Hollows, #8))
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Shouts of dismay rose as the red flesh splattered against the table. It was only a tomato, but one would think I was pulping a decaying heart by the noise the big, strong FIB officers were making.
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Kim Harrison (Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows, #1))
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You are the devil to talk to, Rachel," he said curtly. "Will you shut up and listen?
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Kim Harrison (Ever After (The Hollows, #11))
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It's funny how things seem different, suddenly.
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Kim Edwards (The Memory Keeper's Daughter)
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You!” she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)
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Kim Harrison (The Outlaw Demon Wails (The Hollows, #6))
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Vamps were homebodies—high-maintenance, party-till-you-die, don’t-look-at-me-funny-or-I’ll-kill-you homebodies, but homebodies nevertheless.
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Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows, #4))
“
It’s funny, the truth makes people uncomfortable, but a lie gets people excited. Isn’t that right?
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Young-ha Kim (I Have The Right To Destroy Myself)
“
Funny how if you were reading his dystopian sci-fi novel with a minor subplot about fascists ruling Korea, you'd be taken to jail. So you gotta wonder. Do they ban books because they see danger in their authors, or because they see themselves in their villains?
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Kim Hyun Sook (Banned Book Club)
“
Who is this repulsive dwarf?
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Kim Hunter (Wizard's Funeral (Red Pavilions #2))
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I crack up and slap my thigh so hard it stings. "You know what this means, right?"
Hattie frowns. "No, what?"
"If you guys get married and hyphenate your last names, you'll be Hattie Oh-Noh.
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Graci Kim (The Last Fallen Star (Gifted Clans, #1))
“
When you’re eating your supper, you can look down at your plate and say, my, that’s a fine-looking carrot, and you’ll think of me.”
“I don’t want to think of you when I look at a damn carrot.
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Kim Liggett (The Grace Year)
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Look I accept Adam because you love him. And I assume he accepts me because you love me...your love binds us.'...The funny thing was, I never really bought into Kim's notion that they were somehow bound together through me- until just now when I saw her half carrying him down the hospital corridor.
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Gayle Forman (If I Stay (If I Stay, #1))
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This is about Ku’Sox, isn’t it,” I said, more of a statement than a question.
He made a sighing groan, and I knew it was. “Then you’ve met,” he said, his thoughts clearly on the day-walking demon. “Funny, you don’t look dead.” His hand touched my chin, shifting it so he could see where I’d been pixed, the blisters itchy and red. “I’m surprised you survived the little designer dump. I nearly didn’t.
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Kim Harrison (Pale Demon (The Hollows, #9))
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the funny thing bout weeds. You can pull em up by the root, burn the soil where they stood, might lie dormant for years, but they’ll always find a way.
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Kim Liggett (The Grace Year)
“
I reached to push my hair out of my eyes, finding someone had tied a knot it in. My face screwed up in anger as I realized it was a HAPA knot. Real funny.
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Kim Harrison (A Perfect Blood (The Hollows, #10))
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For many young girls, having a horse of their own ranks high on the scale of importance, right up there with breathing.
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Kim Meeder
“
You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.
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Kim Stanley Robinson
“
Religion is a totalitarian belief. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, before you're born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you're dead. A celestial North Korea. Who wants this to be true? Who but a slave desires such a ghastly fate? I've been to North Korea. It has a dead man as its president, Kim Jong-Il is only head of the party and head of the army. He's not head of the state. That office belongs to his deceased father, Kim Il-Sung. It's a necrocracy, a thanatocracy. It's one short of a trinity I might add. The son is the reincarnation of the father. It is the most revolting and utter and absolute and heartless tyranny the human species has ever evolved. But at least you can fucking die and leave North Korea!
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Christopher Hitchens
“
Home is such a funny word. We make the decission to live somewhere and then it's called 'home'. We eat there, work there, get married there, buy a house there. [..] I've been on a long journey. I don't think 'home' is that important. To really know yourself, you sometimes have to become nomad and forget about home.
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Kim Un-Su (The Cabinet)
“
Mr. Monogamy doesn’t find my shenanigans funny? Oh thank god, if you did I’d have to chuck it all and join a monastery.
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Kim Cormack (Enlightenment)
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It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.
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Kim Wright
“
It's not that I can't express myself,
it's that I still feel present when I'm not expressing myself.
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Kim Myungsoo
“
The funny thing about forgiveness is that God is much freer with it than humans are.” She
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Kim Cash Tate (Cherished)
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They hadn’t explicitly asked for help, but Celia discovered Us was funny like that—they hadn’t needed to ask.
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Kim Smejkal (Ink in the Blood (Ink in The Blood, #1))
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Drab?" Soldier yelled. "I'll give you drab. Beat her, would you? Beat my wife? I'll feed your head to the vultures, you snotty little hamster with your golden pelt and buttery looks!
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Kim Hunter (Wizard's Funeral (Red Pavilions #2))
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The funny thing is, the more I dwelled on the possibilities of having DID, the more time I seemed to have to do it. For what seemed like forever, and certainly for the last few years since the acid and fire incidents, days had rushed by in a blur. It was strange to admit but I suddenly seemed to have more time to myself.
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Kim Noble (All of Me)
“
I love the way you look at me, Seamus. No one’s ever looked at me like you do. Your eyes speak to me. When I say something funny, your eyes laugh before your mouth does. When I need encouragement, your eyes tell me I’m good enough. When I’m scared, your eyes hold me. And when you’re about to kiss me, your eyes undress my thoughts.
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Kim Holden (So Much More)
“
Yes. Let’s be honest. I’m a privileged white woman who left her kids in a $30,000 minivan watching Dora the Explorer to go in for a Starbucks. Is there any clearer picture of privilege than that? But no matter what color you are, no matter how much money you have, you don’t deserve to be harassed for making a rational parenting choice.”
It’s funny, but in all the time that had passed, I had never thought about what was happening in quite those terms—as harassment. When a person intimidates, insults, verbally abuses, or demeans a woman on the street, in the bedroom, at the office, in the classroom, it’s harassment. When a woman is intimidated or insulted or abused because of the way she dresses or her sexual habits or her outspokenness on social media, she is experiencing harassment. But when a mother is intimidated, insulted, abused, or demeaned because of the way she is mothering, we call it concern or, at worst, nosiness. A mother, apparently, cannot be harassed. A mother can only be corrected.
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Kim Brooks (Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear)
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Tiberius sparred, “Mr. Monogamy doesn’t find my shenanigans funny? Oh thank god, if you did I’d have to chuck it all and join a monastery.”
Thorne sparred, “You’d never be able to stop talking long enough.”
Frost laughed, “He’d light on fire as soon as he stepped through the gate.”
“Right alongside of you,” Tiberius said, patting Frost’s shoulder.
“Touché,” Frost chuckled. “You do have me there.
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Kim Cormack
“
How did you get through it?” I asked her. I was hoping she was going to recommend a book, a pill, some quick fix to make this feeling of inadequacy go away.
Instead, she looked at me kindly, quite earnestly, and said, “You know, I think after years and years, I learned to stop giving a fuck. If people I knew, friends or relatives or strangers or whoever, had an opinion about what kind of mother I was or wasn’t, if they thought I was making mistakes, or doing things the wrong way, being too this or too that, being selfish by not giving all of myself to my kids, I eventually decided, fuck ’em. I’m doing the best I can in a culture that offers parents little material or emotional support. If people have a problem with the way I’m doing it, fuck every last one of them. And it’s funny—that anger—that was what got me to a place where I could finally stop caring and enjoy the little monsters. That’s when I started feeling better.
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Kim Brooks (Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear)
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Imagine the moment when you realise that the little girl you have known all her life is actually your own daughter. What do you say? There's nothing to prepare you for that. I'd known Aimee since she was four months old. She was always in my house. In fact, usually I was the only person with her. The clues were all there.
But I never joined up the dots. I always came up with a justification for it. There was always some logical reason why I was in charge of a friend's little girl - even though I'd never actually met that friend.
Looking back, it was obvious. Something, in my own mind was preventing me from making the link. The brain's a funny thing. It's also very clever and mine was protecting me. Because if I ever accepted that Aimee was my baby, then I had to accept other things - things you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
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Kim Noble (All of Me)
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Bugs like these we’ve got here, you aren’t going to find those unless you slow down and hunt really hard. Live nearby for a while and look. At which point it’s too late, if you get a bad result. You’re out of luck then.” Long silence as he walked south along the beach. Then: “It’s too bad. It really is a very pretty world.” Later: “What’s funny is anyone thinking it would work in the first place. I mean it’s obvious any new place is going to be either alive or dead. If it’s alive it’s going to be poisonous, if it’s dead you’re going to have to work it up from scratch. I suppose that could work, but it might take about as long as it took Earth. Even if you’ve got the right bugs, even if you put machines to work, it would take thousands of years. So what’s the point? Why do it at all? Why not be content with what you’ve got? Who were they, that they were so discontent? Who the fuck were they?” This sounded much like Devi, and Freya put her head
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Kim Stanley Robinson (Aurora)
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Bence farklı olmak hem güzel bir şey hem de bir lanet. En azından farkındalık yaratıyor. Yani… Misal, herkesin ya A ya da B olduğunu düşün. Bu A ve B’ler farklı farklı, benzersiz parçaları var, ama sonuçta ya A ya da B. Bu insanlar birbirlerine aşık oluyorlar falan, ya da arkadaşlar. AA olabilir, AB olabilir, ya da BB… İkisi de kabuldur. Bir de ‘0’ var. 0 gibi dışarı itiliyorsun, bu ikililerin yanında bir sıfır kadar değersizsin. Geriye iki grup insan kalır. Seni gördüğünde sıfır olduğunu hatırlatanlar, ve yanına gelip A0 ya da B0 yapanlar. İkisi de kan gurubudur. Değil mi? Düşünsene bak. 0 olduğun için, faşist olan A ve B’leri en baştan eleyebiliyorsun. Kendileri belli ediyorlar bunu zaten. Senin göze batan sıfırlığın onları kimliklerini açık etmeye zorluyor. Kim Nazi’den çocuk yapmak ister ki? Kalanını da aramaya gerek kalmıyor, varsa yanına geliyorlar zaten. Hiç olmadı 00 olursun, daha cool bir şey olur mu?
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Mithat Terje
“
So who else did you convince?"
"Well, I got Joe to potty train himself, and then I convinced Anna to leave the kids at home and go with me on a vacation to Jamaica."
Roy laughed heartily. "Dreams are so funny."
"Yeah, but bold. So bold. Sometimes I wake up and wonder why I'm not as bold as that all the time. I mean, what have we got to lose?
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Kim Stanley Robinson
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The sensation passed, and after a bit of thought he decided it must have been that the decelerating car had passed momentarily through one g. An image came to him, of running out a long pier, wet uneven boards splashed with silver fish scales; he could even smell the salt fish stink. One g. Funny how the body remembered it.
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Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1))
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Thus when Hiroko came up and said, “Nadia, this crescent wrench is absolutely frozen in this position,” Nadia sang to her, “That’s the only thing I’m thinking of— baby!” and took the crescent wrench and slammed it against a table like a hammer, and twiddled the dial to show Hiroko it was unstuck, and laughed at her expression. “The engineer’s solution,” she explained, and went humming into the lock, thinking how funny Hiroko was, a woman who held their whole ecosystem in her head, but couldn’t hammer a nail straight.
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Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1))
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You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you. Kim Kiyosaki
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M. Prefontaine (501 Quotes about Life: Funny, Inspirational and Motivational Quotes (Quotes For Every Occasion Book 9))
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On and on it goes—online there is an excellent circular graphic display of cognitive errors—a wheel of mistakes that both lists them and organizes them into categories, including the law of small numbers, neglect of base rates, the availability heuristic, asymmetrical similarity, probability illusions, choice framing, context segregation, gain/loss asymmetry, conjunction effects, the law of typicality, misplaced causality, cause/effect asymmetry, the certainty effect, irrational prudence, the tyranny of sunk costs, illusory correlations, and unwarranted overconfidence—the graphic itself being a funny example of this last phenomenon, in that it pretends to know how we think and what would be normal.
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Kim Stanley Robinson (The Ministry for the Future)
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And there are things about the Swiss you have to admire. They are so punktlich, so punctual— this is funny at first, but what is it but a regard for the other person? You are saying to the other person, your time is as valuable as mine, so I will not waste yours by being late. Let us agree we are all equally important and so everyone has to be on time, in order to respect each other.
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Kim Stanley Robinson (The Ministry for the Future)
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Nothing is as funny as a giraffe who makes you laugh.
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Kim Marie (A Giraffe Who Makes You Laugh: a simple rhyming story)
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It’s funny, Eugene usually had bad eye contact, but now he was staring intently with a huge grin, as if taunting me, as if daring me to just do and say what I’d been holding in.
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Angie Kim (Happiness Falls)
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Reading a SoHo restaurant review in the New York Times for me is like reading Fifty Shades of Gravy. By the end of it, you're drooling and fully turned on for more."
Kim Lee
The Big Apple Took a Bite Of Me
Available on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee
“
Just like Adam and Eve, you've got choices. Dating is an apple-sorting bonanza. You're after the golden delicious, not the rotten Granny Smith. But beware, some apples are Oscar-worthy actors, all shiny on the outside but a letdown once you sink your teeth in. It's a fruit salad of chance, so brace yourself and take that first bite.
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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Reading a SoHo restaurant review in the New York Times for me is like reading Fifty Shades of Gravy. By the end of it, you're drooling and fully turned on for more.
- (done) It wasn’t always pretty in SoHo. When the moon clocked in for its night shift, the homeless community got cozy with their couture cardboard beds sprawled across the cobblestone catwalk.
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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It wasn’t always pretty in SoHo. When the moon clocked in for its night shift, the homeless community got cozy with their couture cardboard beds sprawled across the cobblestone catwalk.
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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Right there, at his feet and mercy, I gawked up at him like a sex-starved, desperate housewife while he gyrated sensually. His eyes spotted the green bucks, and he knew the drill. He descended, thrusted his crotch towards my face, missing my tiny Asian nose by half an inch. Cross-eyed, I frantically and nervously stuffed the wad of dollar bills into his tiny shorts. Once satiated by the paltry deposit, he backed off and launched into a sexy repertoire for my eyes only.
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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While we dressed up, they dressed down. I'm talking fashion choices that would make a thrift store mannequin cringe.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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With a foolproof financial plan tucked in our back pocket like a secret weapon, we flung those ballroom doors open like we were unveiling a new phone model.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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If the fashion bar was that low, it was time to hit the bar.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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I kindly friendzoned him on the spot, but he was as relentless as an online pop-up ad.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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After a few rounds of my KGB-styled interrogations, Andrei folded like a cheap suit.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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In the neighborhood, it was so wild that even the fast food joints had bulletproof glass. I thought I was ordering a burger, not robbing a bank. Andrei had to explain to me that it wasn't a local delicacy. It was a mystery to me how a place for quick bites became a place for quick bucks.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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I'd lost count of the minutes we'd been airborne, but it was long enough for me to start mentally writing my will and wondering if I'd left the oven on.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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Ever the efficiency expert, Phil had a knack for turning my empty bottles of Snapple Mango Madness into his personal porta-potties on our road trips. I'd get all fiery, but then I'd realize the hilarity of it all. My once Mango Madness was transformed into Golden Madness.
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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Our annual year-end bash was a tradition as sturdy as our conviction that socks and sandals were a fashion faux pas. From fashion outlaws, we became accepted as fashion forward style icons.
-Kim Lee
‘The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me’
Now on Amazon Books and Kindle
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Kim Lee (The Big Apple Took a Bite Off Me: A funny memoir of a SoHo-living foreigner who survived NYC)
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that’s the funny thing bout weeds. You can pull em up by the root, burn the soil where they stood, might lie dormant for years, but they’ll always find a way.
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Kim Liggett (The Grace Year)
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It’s funny, the truth makes people uncomfortable, but a lie gets people excited.
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Young-ha Kim (I Have the Right to Destroy Myself)
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Is the weather nice?”
“Yeah, we’re in Austin. Got here about an hour ago. It’s probably 80 degrees.”
“Wish I could say the same for here.” I sigh. “Get this: it snowed last night. Like real, motherfucking snowflakes.” I’m trying to act pissed, but I can’t bring myself to it because I’m so happy to be talking to Gus right now. I know I don’t have long, so I need to make the most of it.
He laughs. “No way?”
“Yeah, it’s October. Isn’t snow against the rules or something until at least December?”
“You’re asking the wrong dude that question. Is it cold?”
“Yeah, I had to buy a winter coat today. Though for the locals this is probably still T-shirt weather. I swear Minnesotans have some sort of mutant gene that makes them immune to hot and cold. It’s freaky.”
He laughs again but then turns serious. “What about boots? Did you buy some boots? You’ll need boots.” It’s funny when he acts parental.
I over-exaggerate a full body shiver. “Stop. Buying the coat was bad enough. I don’t want to give in to the snow boots yet. I need time to work up to that. Maybe next month, or the one after that.” The truth is, I’ll need to buy the boots new, because used shoes skeeve me out, and I need to save up for them. That will take a while.
“You’re right, you’d better pace yourself.” He’s teasing me.
I tease him right back. “Need I remind you that you’re touring the United States this winter? That includes the northern frigid states. You’re going to need to buy a winter coat too, you know.”
He exhales through gritted teeth. “I know. I’m still in cold-weather denial.”
“It’s a nice place to visit, denial, but you can’t live there forever, dude.” Maybe I should take my own advice.
“Bright Side, are you quoting Confucius or JFK? That sounds so familiar.” I know without seeing him that he’s wearing this dumb, mocking expression that makes me laughevery time.
“Dude, I think it was Yoda, in The Empire Strikes Back. It was part of Luke’s Jedi training or something.
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Kim Holden (Bright Side (Bright Side, #1))
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the way people treat shifters can be amusing."
"Discrimination is never funny."
"You're a righteous woman, Kim. I like that."
"How can you just sit there?"
"I usually sit when I'm drinking coffee. Or I mean against something. If I may on my back, it goes down the wrong way.
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Jennifer Ashley (Pride Mates (Shifters Unbound, #1))
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Another problem can arise if the object of a special interest is socially unacceptable. When my husband read my list of special interests, he jokingly added himself to it. He was being funny, but sometimes Aspies do take on another person as a special interest. If that person is a celebrity, the Aspie can safely spend hours learning about and admiring that person from afar. But if the person is someone in the Aspie’s life, the special interest may be expressed as unwanted attention, harassment, or stalking.
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Cynthia Kim (Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to an Asperger Life)
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When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to say "Spanish-style" is now something diseased looking. Nobody seems to know how to stucco anymore.
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Kim Gordon (Girl in a Band)
“
The popular culture has also lowered the threshold on public shaming rituals. It is not only suppressing certain speech on college campuses, but making public denunciation of certain classes of people into a form of popular entertainment. The masters of the funny cheap shot are comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who routinely and cleverly skewer conservatives as stupid bigots. After the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, for example, Stewart asked what was wrong with opponents of same-sex marriage, as if a view held for thousands of years, even not very long ago by both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, were incomprehensible. The use of humor is a cultural trick. It provides a cultural permission slip to be nasty because, or so the assumption goes, the enemies of "the people" are so unattractive that they deserve whatever Stewart or Colbert throws at them. When Stewart compares Senator Ted Cruz to the Harry Potter character Voldemort, he knows we will then think of Cruz as the book's author describes Voldemort, "a raging psychopath, devoid of the normal human responses to other people's suffering".
It may seem futile to complain about the crudeness of American mass culture. It has been around for decades, and it is not about to change anytime soon. The thin line that exists these days between politics and entertainment (witness the rise of Donald Trump) is undoubtedly coarsening our politics. It is becoming more culturally acceptable to split the world into us-versus-them schemata and to indulge in all sorts of antisocial and illiberal fantasies about crushing one's enemies.
Only a few decades ago most liberals had a different idea of tolerance. Most would explain it with some variation of Evelyn Beatrice Hall's line about Voltaire's philosophy of free speech: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it". That is no longer the case. It is now deemed necessary, indeed even noble, to be intolerant in the cause of tolerance. Any remark or viewpoint that liberals believe is critical of minorities is by definition intolerant. A liberal critique of conservatives or religious people, on the other hand, is, again by definition, incapable of being intolerant. It is a willful double standard. For liberals, intolerance is a one-way street leading straight to conservatism.
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Kim R. Holmes (The Closing of the Liberal Mind: How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left)
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Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.
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Eric Jerome Dickey (Finding Gideon)
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Swimming alongside someone in the sea of misery was not helpful to a grieving person. It offered them nothing, no respite from the hollow feelings of loss. Share something funny, an example of their clumsiness, innocence, humour, naiveté. Offer the grief-stricken a memory to add to their own portfolio that would grow no more.
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Angela Marsons (Play Dead (DI Kim Stone, #4))
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Funny how fate seems to push people together sometimes,
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Kim Harrison (The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (The Hollows, #2))
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The brain is a funny animal,” he muttered
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Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1))
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Thus when Hiroko came up and said, “Nadia, this crescent wrench is absolutely frozen in this position,” Nadia sang to her, “That’s the only thing I’m thinking of— baby!” and took the crescent wrench and slammed it against a table like a hammer, and twiddled the dial to show Hiroko it was unstuck, and laughed at her expression. “The engineer’s solution,” she explained, and went humming into the lock, thinking how funny Hiroko was, a woman who held their whole ecosystem in her head, but couldn’t hammer a nail straight.
And that night she talked over the day’s work with Sax, and spoke to Spencer about glass, and in the middle of that conversation crashed on her bunk and snuggled her head into her pillow, feeling totally luxurious, the glorious final chorus of “Ain’t Misbehavin’” chasing her off to sleep.
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Kim Stanley Robinson (Red Mars (Mars Trilogy, #1))