Quotes About Contrast

Quando eu vou na cidade tenha a impressão que estou no paraizo. Acho sublime ver aquelas mulheres e crianças tão bem vestidas. Tão diferentes da favela. As casas com seus vasos de flores e cores variadas. Aquelas paisagens há de encantar os olhos dos visitantes de São Paulo, que ignoram que a cidade mais afamada da America do Sul está enferma. Com as suas ulceras. As favelas.

Everything is evened up in the world. The rich have their ice in the summer but the poor get theirs in the winter.

It was as if Louisa May Alcott had decided to drop Jack the Ripper into the domestic circle of Little Women just to see what might happen.

You're so clean that you're dirty.

It's all so un-Victorian.

She looks out the window at Reno, which looks like Vegas and yet also looks nothing like Vegas. It's lesser, smaller, worse.

I love you because onions are more complicated than cherries. I'm doomed. I

You like new things," I say. You are quick to come back. "You like old things, Joe.

What other kid, what other boy, would like The Middle? He says it's great because all the Hecks are smart and stupid at the same time. He says most other shows make you be one or the other.

And death is simple. Life is what's complicated

It's amazing how good fifty and sunny feels after you've been bleeding in twelve with a wind chill of go fuck yourself.

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

YemeÄŸi masaya getirince Jaoa gülümsedi. Fasulyelerin siyah olduÄŸunu hiç biri farketmedi. Hayat?m?z da kara, etraf?m?z? saran her ÅŸey de kara, ondan olacak.

Marie Antoinette's wardrobe was the stuff of dreams, and the space of nightmares.

Life is never what you expect it to be. Sex has more to do with salt than sweetness. The sky is white as often as it's blue.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

And I ultimately not only addressed it, I named my two moods Roy and Pam. Roy is Rollicking Roy, the wild ride of a mood, and Pam is Sediment Pam, who stands on the shore and sobs. (Pam stands for "piss and moan.") One mood is the meal, and the next mood is the check.

You have the eyes of a doe and the balls of a samurai.

Heaven's no place for one who thrives on hell.

So maybe this was another example of nothing ever being just one thing. No motive is pure. No one is good or bad—but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

we look for people that are gold in the place where we're shit and shit in the places where we're gold

You can set up housekeeping on one side of the looking glass or the other--the side that makes big things small or small things big.

It's like I've got a visa for happiness, but for sadness I've got a lifetime pass.

She is really nice and everything, but totally not made of awesome the way Issie is.