Shirley Quotes

“If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb”
― John Shirley, BioShock: Rapture

“I believe - I daily find it proved - that we can get nothing in this world worth keeping, not so much as a principle or a conviction, except out of purifying flame, or through strengthening peril. We err; we fall; we are humbled - then we walk more carefully. We greedily eat and drink poison out of the gilded cup of vice, or from the beggar's wallet of avarice; we are sickened, degraded; everything good in us rebels against us; our souls rise bitterly indignant against our bodies; there is a period of civil war; if the soul has strength, it conquers and rules thereafter.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“She has a perfect body, and she's supposed to be sexy, but it doesn't turn me on. She has an ethereal sort of look to her, as though I'm looking at a piece of art. There is no carnal desire there -- just a bewitching beauty.”
― Hirukuma, Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon, Vol. 1

“I have to live, perhaps, till seventy years. As far as I know, I have good health. Half a century of existence may lie before me. How am I to occupy it? What am I to do to fill the interval of time which spreads between me and the grave?”
― Charlotte Brontë

“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud disparts and rolls away from heaven, not passing and leaving a sea all sapphire, but tossed buoyant before a continued, long-sounding, high-rushing moonlight tempest. The Moon reigns glorious, glad of the gale, as glad as if she gave herself to his fierce caress with love. No Endymion will watch for his goddess tonight. there are no flocks out on the mountains; and it is well, for to-night she welcomes Aeolus.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Endurance over-goaded, stretched the hand of fraternity to sedition.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“In her past were sweet passages, in her future rosy hopes.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Shirley

“Women read men more truly than men read women. I’ll prove that in a magazine paper some day when I have time; only it will never be inserted. It will be ‘declined with thanks,’ and left for me at the publisher’s.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“The day we become silent about the things that matter is the moment our lives begin to end.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“What haunts me is that the prevalence of human trafficking, particularly the sex trafficking of underage girls and young women, means that I have almost definitely seen one of these individuals in my daily life. I’ve sat next to them on the bus, or ordered coffee right behind them. Were their eyes begging for my help, and I simply overlooked, did not notice?
Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“The noblest attribute of man is the love for all living creatures.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“A time will come in life when men will look at the maltreatment and killings of animals the same way they look on the murder of men.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“My mother taught me to look each person in the eye as my equal. The thought that anyone would look me in the eye and consider me unequal fuels my will to fight the good fight.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“There are so many women suffering in silence, and, yes, men, too. There are so many men and women who are humiliated in their own homes, in front of their children. How are they ever supposed to develop an idea of what safety is?
Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“Spousal violence is a rising problem in the United States. Turn on a true crime television program. You’re pretty much guaranteed to see the program is about a woman who has been murdered, and the woman is almost always murdered by her boyfriend/husband/partner, etc. Are we now consuming this heinous endemic as pop culture and entertainment?
Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“As I stood in line at the drug store one day, I heard a man yelling for someone to come to him, he even whistled. I expected a child (although that would have been unacceptable in its own right), but what I saw was a grown woman, ashamed, frightened. I haven’t been able to get the look in her eyes out of my mind.
Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“With the lamp of God’s love lighting the way, although it is fearsome, we can navigate the darkened world. What’s even better is that we can see the points of light of our brothers and sisters in Christ, and we can find our way together.
Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“We are never truly alone, even when it feels that way. It is horrible that we should need to feel that way, but even when we feel all our friends and loved ones have turned their backs on us, God is still holding us in His arms.
Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“I was bullied from the time that I was a small child and into my adulthood—sometimes, I still feel as though I’m being bullied. It has left me with my own scars to bear, and we truly must prioritize helping our children in situations like these.
Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“The books of Genesis make some of the most valid claims of animal rights that have ever been made.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“It is the duty of all Christians to take a stand against cruelty in all its forms, as God would have us do.”
“Some of the earliest radical animal rights reformists were Evangelical Christians. We should study and embrace this link!”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo