Top 25 Movie Quotes Part XX

Ever seen the American Film Institute’s list of movie quotes? Let me sum up: of the hundred, about 25 are Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. Most of the rest are from the other golden oldies that are revered by the writers of film studies textbooks; they may be well-made, but they’re also very muchContinue reading “Top 25 Movie Quotes Part XX”

Book Quote of the Day

Trans woman Samantha Allen describes the process of changing her gender while in graduate school: “Estrogen is not made of sugar and spice. In pill form, it is synthesized from two decidedly unsexy ingredients: soy and yams. But that’s only fitting because, when I first started taking prescription estradiol in the fall of 2012, IContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”

Top 25 Movie Quotes: Part XIX

Ever seen the American Film Institute’s list of movie quotes? Let me sum up: of the hundred, about 25 are Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. Most of the rest are from the other golden oldies that are revered by the writers of film studies textbooks; they may be well-made, but they’re also very muchContinue reading “Top 25 Movie Quotes: Part XIX”

Nostalgia Tiiiiime!!! “Material Girl” by Madonna

Now if you’re saying, what’s horror-related about this mega-80s (to the max!) gem, it was directed by Mary Lambert, the auteur behind the original Pet Sematary as well as the watchable Pet Sematary II and Urban Legends: Bloody Mary. (We’ll not discuss the rest of her filmography.)

Book Quote of the Day

“To a parent, your child wasn’t just a person: your child was a place, a kind of Narnia, a vast eternal place where the present you were living and the past you remembered and the future you longed for all existed at once. You could see it every time you looked at her: layered inContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”

Book Quote of the Day

[Five-year-old Mel Brooks is having an argument with his mother to close the window, despite the heat, because he saw Frankenstein in the theatre and got scared] ” ‘Mel,’ she says, ‘let’s say you are right. That Frankenstein wants to come here and kill you and eat you. But let’s look at all the troubleContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”

Book Quote of the Day

“A small smile touched Death’s lips. ‘What are you afraid of?’ Jeremy wiped his eyes with his hand. ‘Pain, mostly.’ ‘But not just pain, am I right? It’s never just a fear of pain that makes any of you hesitate.’ Hot anger burned at Jeremy’s core. ‘Stop lumping me in with other suicides. I’m notContinue reading “Book Quote of the Day”

Top 25 Movie Quotes: Part XVIII

Ever seen the American Film Institute’s list of movie quotes? Let me sum up: of the hundred, about 25 are Casablanca and Gone with the Wind. Most of the rest are from the other golden oldies that are revered by the writers of film studies textbooks; they may be well-made, but they’re also very muchContinue reading “Top 25 Movie Quotes: Part XVIII”