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“I cried to think of how lucky we both were to have found each other, since it was clear that we were the only ones in the world who could understand what we understood in the instantaneous manner in which we understood it.”
― Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

“Everything's just fucking Disney with you.”
― Nenia Campbell, Horrorscape

“The world’s crawling with stupid, innocent girls, and I’m just one of them, self-consciously chasing after dreams that will never come true.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“...if you bare your arse to a vengeful unicorn, the number of possible outcomes dwindles to one.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“There are few things worse than mistaking an enemy for a friend.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“we know little of the things for which we pray”
― Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales

“We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!”
― Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon

“Optimists are usually inexperienced.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman, Veterans of the Psychic Wars

“I want to set the record straight."
"The record's never straight, you idiot! Haven't you ever read 1984? They rewrite the record anytime it doesn't suit them. You're spinning your wheels and exposing your bare fanny for nothing.”
― David Eddings, Losers

“It would be cruel to break that hope before it fades on its own.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“If Edgar sounded overeager, even rushed, the race was with his own temperament. He placed a premium on savvy. Yet since you could only obtain new information by admitting you didn’t know it already, savvy required an apprenticeship as a naive twit. You had to ask crude, obvious questions…you had to sit still while worldly-wise warhorses…fired withering glances as if you were born yesterday.


Well, Edgar was born yesterday for the moment, although his tolerance for being treated liked a simpleton was in short supply. He’d needed to rattle off a multitude of stupid questions before he embraced his next incarnation as an insider. The trouble was that savvy coated your brain in plastic like a driver’s license: nothing more could get in. Hence the point at which you decided you knew everything was exactly the point at which you became an ignorant dipshit.”
― Lionel Shriver, The New Republic

“She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.”
― Jessie Burton, The Muse

“I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.”
― Sreesha Divakaran, Those Imperfect Strokes

“Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.”
― Richie Norton

“Does anyone act more like an overserious senior citizen with time running out on their chance for immortality than someone in their twenties?”
― Patton Oswalt

“How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Kitty's Class Day and Other Stories

“What's suffering?”
― Vaddey Ratner, In the Shadow of the Banyan

“You're only naive once. Use it well.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“Commercial comedy's often set up to feature an ironist making
devastating sport of someone who's naive or sentimental or pretentious or
pompous.”
― David Foster Wallace

“When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.”
― Ben Carson, One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

“How are babies made?" Visibly startled, Jordan turned and opened his mouth, as if he intended to speak, but for some reason no words came out. At first Alexandra was puzzled by his involuntary silence, but then understanding dawned. She shook her head and sighed with sympathy for their mutual plight. " You don't know either, do you?”
― Judith McNaught, Something Wonderful

“So them who can't learn from a tale about critters, just ain't got the ears tuned to listen."
-Uncle Remus in Disney's Song of the South”
― jim korkis, Who's Afraid of the Song of the South? And Other Forbidden Disney Stories

“A lot of the situations that we put ourselves in are similar to a cat in a yard full of dogs. We rarely ask ourselves how we got here, (which doesn’t help with the question of how we get out of here), all of which rarely keeps us from finding ourselves in the next yard asking the same questions.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nothing envisioned a future more inaccurately than naivete.”
― Rakesh Satyal, No One Can Pronounce My Name