Jothika

What to know about me...not much of import. (If prompted, though, I can go on at length about some of my favorite stores in the mall: Borders, Aveda, Brookstone, L'Occitane, Macy's, Victoria's Secret...just let me know if you would care to have me elaborate. ;)) I can tell you some of my actual favorite quotes (somewhat longer than fifty characters):

"I really think that three-quarters of it is gibberish. However, I must crush down these thoughts, otherwise the dove of peace will shit on me"--Noel Coward on the poetry of Edith Sewell

"I kept kissing frogs, looking for a prince, and finding only cold, green flesh."--Moll Flanders, from the screenplay, not Defoe's book (I really regret that this one didn't fit in the tagline)

"American Novel: A story in which two people want each other from the beginning but don't get each other until the end of the book.
French Novel: A story in which the two people get together right at the
beginning, but from then until the end of the book they don't want each other any more.
Russian Novel: A story in which the two people don't want each other or get each other--and for 800 pages brood about it."--Erich Maria Remarque

"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be
sorry."--Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens, what have you)

"Eros seizes and shakes my very soul
like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks."--Sappho

"Leila alone was satisfied to be born free of man's tyranny, born free of man. She did not realize that imitating man was not being free of him."--Anais Nin, from "The Delta of Venus"

"You have to get women to get women."

"Just because I don't harrass it like some peoples us know don't mean I ain't got religion."--Shug Avery, from "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker

"Solitude is my old friend. I never fear her return."

"What I want to say, querido, is
hunger is not romantic to the hungry.
What I want to say is
fear is not so thrilling if you're the one afraid.
What I want to say is
poverty is not quaint when it's your house you can't escape from.
Decay is not beautiful to the decayed..."--Sandra Cisneros, from "Still Life"

"I can still remember a high school chemistry teacher who asked me why I couldn't be as good as my sister. 'You two eat the same five grains and the same variety of foods, but'--she shook her head while patting mine--'your brain is filled with tofu.'"--Shu-Huei Henrickson, from "Sour Berry Juice"

"Everyone understands hunger, illness, poverty, slavery, and torture. No one understood that at this moment at which she crossed the street with every privilege granted her, of not being hungry, of not being imprisoned or tortured, all these privileges were a subtler form of torture. They were given to her, the house, the complete family, the food, the loves, like a mirage. Given and denied. They were present to the eyes of others who said: 'You are fortunate, ' and invisible to her. Because the anguish, the mysterious poison, corroded all of them, distorted the relationships, blighted the food, haunted the house, installed war where there was no apparent war, torture where there was no sign of instruments, and enemies where there were no enemies to capture and defeat.
Anguish was a voiceless woman screaming in a nightmare."--Anais Nin, "Ladders to Fire"

"I don't have a boyfriend; I have dessert."

"Semper ubi sub ubi!" - Anonymous (As if anyone would take credit for that one! :P)