February 2012
11 posts
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Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...
– Sigmund Freud (via iwasborntired)
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Tell me I’m clever,
Tell me I’m kind,
Tell me I’m talented,
Tell me I’m cute,...
– Shel Silverstein (via kjellsimmons)
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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.
– John Green (via nickelcobalt)
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She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love...
– Ann Brashares, Girls in Pants. (via madeofglass-)
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Lucy: Daniel?
Daniel: Yes?
Lucy: Did you ever think we were meant not to be together?
Daniel: No. We are meant to be together. We are just meant to want it very badly.
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Let me love you, but don’t love me back. Do love me and let me hate you...
– Ann Brashares.
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After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn’t bring...
– Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello.
January 2012
35 posts
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I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I was...
– Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz.
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She has learned that her body is precious and it mustn’t be offered...
– Steve Martin, Shopgirl.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.
– John Steinbeck (via rasputin)
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There is a moment — oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
– Steve Martin, Shopgirl.
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes...
– Robert Frost
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I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
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Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy...
– Hermann Hesse
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At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t...
– Toni Morrison.
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You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I...
– Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland.
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I’m single because I was born that way.
– Mae West
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All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the...
– Ann Brashares.
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We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
– Karl Lagerfeld.
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ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP:
Is fall in love, drop out of...
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love.
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It’s more that I’m afraid of time. And not having enough of it. Time to figure...
– Ann Brashares.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.
– Kurt Vonnegut.
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I am the most miserable person who ever lived,” he said.
“You are...
– Neil Gaiman, Stardust.
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It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at...
– Ann Brashares, The Last Summer (of You and Me).
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The things that’ll make you fail I’ll love always.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace.
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She wanted to dance with someone who would embrace her in the way she dreamed of...
– Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage.
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Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a...
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love.
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How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
– Paulo Coelho, Brida.
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Love is like a snowmobile racing across the frozen tundra. Suddenly it flips...
– Soren Kierkegaard.
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I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to...
– Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts.
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
– George Eliot.
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I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I...
– Douglas Adams, The Long and Dark Tea-time of the Soul.
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
– Mark Twain
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For once, you believed in yourself. You believed you were beautiful and so did...
– Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon.
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You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It’s not overrated. ...
– Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby.
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Love is or it ain’t. Thin love ain’t love at all.
– Toni Morrison, Beloved.