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| a71bb0f | Who gives a shit what everyone thinks?" he said. I see now that this has long been some sort of mantra for him. I've never been that free. I want to be, and sometimes I pretend to be, but I'm not. I'm forever chained to giving a shit about what someone thinks." | Tammara Webber | ||
| b37be2c | Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived. | Tammara Webber | ||
| c55ee02 | I've come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know you're feeling and then walk away like that. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 442ff42 | I felt the threads of connection between us--fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were craving to fit inside the other, and is melting and reshaping could be deeper, more resilient. | poem tammara-webber | Tammara Webber | |
| 55ba807 | Alarmed, I realized what my visceral reaction implied: jealousy. Over a guy I barely knew, with whom I'd exchanged more saliva than sentences. | Tammara Webber | ||
| 69cc7d2 | This morning when I left Mom's parting words were, "Come straight home after school." Wow! Like I'm going to get stoned at 3:30--it doesn't sound so bad at that." | Beatrice Sparks | ||
| 347a99a | A KIND OF ILLNESS This ache in my chest is a relentless thing, worse than any fever. A fever is gone with a few of Mumtaz's white pills. But this illness has had me in its grip for a week now. This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| b35cb65 | A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand. | Patricia McCormick | ||
| 1c985cf | Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be all right. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 39cd75d | Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier. | recovery | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 6e95103 | We feign disinterest and laugh, and creep into the kitchen some nights, a triangle of light spilled on the floor form the fridge, shoveling cold casseroles, ice cream, jelly, cheese, into our mouths, swallowing without chewing as we listen to the steady, echoing of the clock. I have done this. Millions of people have done this. There is an empty space in many of us that gnaws at our ribs and cannot be filled by any amount of food. There i.. | Marya Hornbacher | ||
| 16c5b99 | There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a bareness that spreads out over the interior landscape of the self, a bareness like tundra, with no sign of life in any direction, no sign of anything beneath the frozen crust of ground, no sign that spring ever intends to come again. | eating-disorder god recovery religion spirituality | Marya Hornbacher | |
| 4f7b793 | My happiness comes from the kindness of those around me. | happiness kindness positive tohru-honda | Natsuki Takaya | |
| a569123 | For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don't think one cancels out the other. I don't believe that there is any right or wrong... we simply coexist. | natsuki-takaya volume-6 | Natsuki Takaya | |
| b064c06 | Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant. | Natsuki Takaya | ||
| 73f2bf5 | I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end, too. They always do. Even if you can't always believe that...please don't give up. Live. I want you to live. Even if you make a mistake. Even if you take the long way. It's still okay. Just please...please, live. Don't give up on pushing forward. Please. At least don't give up on that. Even if I'm not by your side, it's still.. | fruits-basket life memories positive tohru-honda | Natsuki Takaya | |
| d0c12ca | The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an episode. | Jerry Stahl | ||
| f208c4d | he walked away understanding, (...) how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made... on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do. | Philip Roth | ||
| 1b81349 | He is not simply looking into the mirror because he is transfixed by what he sees. Rather, the artist's success depends as much as anything on his powers of detachment, on de-narcissizing himself... Freud... studied his own dreams not because he was a "narcissist," but because he was a student of dreams. And whose were at once the least and most accessible of dreams, if not his own?" | Philip Roth | ||
| 7b06139 | But the danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop. I don't know anything harder to control than hating. Easier to kick drinking than to master hate. And that is saying something. | Philip Roth | ||
| a440da4 | And it was never but once a year that they were brought together anyway, and that was on the neutral, dereligionized ground of Thanksgiving, when everybody gets to eat the same thing, nobody sneaking off to eat funny stuff--no kugel, no gefilte fish, no bitter herbs, just one colossal turkey for two hundred and fifty million people--one colossal turkey feeds all. A moratorium on the three-thousand-year-old nostalgia of the Jews, a moratoriu.. | Philip Roth | ||
| dc006b2 | V p'lnoto si pravo s'm da se sotsializiram kakto i kolkoto nameria za dobre. | Philip Roth | ||
| 522ae7c | fy lwHd@ SbHan- 'khyran! wHdy! lm y`d yusm` sw~ q`q`@ b`D l`rbt lmt'khr@ wlmnhak@. wb`d bD` s`t, snmtlk lSmt, n lm tkn lskyn@. 'khyran! tlsh~ TGyn lwjh lnsny, wln '`ny b`d dhlk l mn nfsy. 'khyran! ymkn ly dhn 'n 'strkhy fy HmWmin mn lZlmt! fy lbdy@, dwr@un mD`f@un fy lqufl. ybdw ly 'n dwr@ lmftH hdhh stzyd mn `zlty wtqwWy lHwjz lty tfSlny blf`l `n l`lm. Hy@un fZy`@! mdyn@un fZy`@! mlkhS lywm: rw'y@ lkthyr mn l'db, ldhyn s'lny 'Hdhm m dh kn .. | شارل بودلير | ||
| a3fb6ea | An enthusiasm for Poe is the mark of a decidedly primitive stage of reflection. Baudelaire thought him a profound philosopher... Poe was much the greater charlatan of the two, as well as the greater genius. | edgar-allan-poe | Henry James | |
| a26b098 | Bisogna sempre essere ubriachi. Tutto qui: e l'unico problema. Per non sentire l'orribile fardello del Tempo che vi spezza la schiena e vi tiene a terra, dovete ubriacarvi senza tregua. Ma di che cosa? Di vino, poesia o di virtu : come vi pare. Ma ubriacatevi. E se talvolta, sui gradini di un palazzo, sull'erba verde di un fosso, nella tetra solitudine della vostra stanza, vi risvegliate perche l'ebbrezza e diminuita o scomparsa, chiedete a.. | Charles Baudelaire | ||
| 05eb9fb | Isn't it true that a pleasant house makes winter more poetic, and doesn't winter add to the poetry of a house? | intimacy poetry winter | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 586ad29 | Le Poete est semblable au prince des nuees Qui hante la tempete et se rit de l'archer; Exile sur le sol au milieu des huees, Ses ailes de geant l'empechent de marcher. | literature mundane mundane-reality poetry poets | Charles Baudelaire | |
| 894436e | Why can't I remember our family Christmas, or a warm spring day, or anything that might have been pleasant? It is as though the filter of recall is itself altered, so that it blocks out everything but the darkest colors of the spectrum. | self-injury | Caroline Kettlewell | |
| 9e2b61e | If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between. | Lori Lansens | ||
| 36ef24e | I wanted to go to him then? Not all of me but the same part he'd just hurt. I don't understand this pull, still. I think it must be a really dangerous physics, the gravity of wound to fist. You can see it happen to the other animals. When a hunter or trapper begins kicking at an alligator, its body curls to accommodate the withdrawing foot. | Karen Russell | ||
| 9951a36 | Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the rocks of her intelligence. Madness, as I understood it from books, meant a person who was open to the high white whine of everything. | Karen Russell | ||
| 79ad5ab | Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales -- girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to break enchantment. In "The Wild Swans," a princess is imprisoned by her stepmother, rolled in filth, then banished from home (as her older brothers had been before her). She goes in search of her missing brothers, discovers that they've been turned into swans, whereupon the young girl vows to find a way to break the spell. A mys.. | folk-tales hans-christian-andersen swans the-wild-swans tranformation | Terri Windling | |
| 4c8a5b3 | Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done, all over the world, for many centuries past. One distinct change marks modern retellings, however, reflecting our changed relationship to animals and nature. In a society in which most of us will never encounter true danger in the woods, the big white bear who comes .. | fairy-tales fantasy myth shape-shifting | Terri Windling | |
| 911aabe | A man who denies his heart, either through fear of personal consequence--whether regarding physical jeopardy, or self-doubt, or simply of being ostracized--is not free. To go against your values and tenets, against that which you know is right and true, creates a prison stronger than adamantine bars and thick stone walls. Every instance of putting expediency above the cries of conscience throws another heavy chain out behind, an anchor to d.. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 3352df0 | Reality is a curious thing. Truth is not as solid and universal as any of us would like it to be; selfishness guides perception, and perception invites justification. The physical image in the mirror, if not pleasing, can be altered by the mere brush of fingers through hair. And so it is true that we can manipulate our own reality. We can persuade, even deceive. We can make others view us in dishonest ways. We can hide selfishness with char.. | forgotten-realms sellswords | R.A. Salvatore | |
| 96651f2 | To lose is to die! You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one! | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 030e7be | I had built this bubble around us. Around all of us-you, me, Chewie, the kids, Luke, Mara, even Lando. Heck, even the stupid droids. We were all in it, you know. In it and safe, a cozy family. Nothing could hurt us--could really hurt us." -Han Solo" | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 12ca00f | To Han Solo, the galaxy seemed a more dangerous place by far. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 2129eee | A sense of accomplishment. It is the most important ingredient in any rational being's formula of happiness. It is the element that builds confidence and allows us to go on to other, greater tasks. It is the item that promotes a sense of self-worth, that allows any person to believe there is value in life itself, that gives a sense of purpose to bolster us as we face life's unanswerable questions. | R.A. Salvatore | ||
| 7d03e99 | A foot on the neck is nine points of the law. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| 1360dd7 | You see, evil alwys contains the seeds of its own destruction' said the angel said, 'It is ultimately negative, and therefore encompasses its downfall even at its moment of apparent triumph. No matter how grandiose, how well-planned, how apparently foolproof an evil plan, the inherent sinfulness will by definition rebound upon its instigators. No matter how apparently successful it may seem upon the way, at the end it will wreck itself. It .. | Terry Pratchett | ||
| ab5ab52 | They put it like that?' said Glenda, wide-eyed. 'Oh, you know the sort of thing if you read the papers a lot,' said Ponder. 'I seriously think they think that it is their job to calm people down by first of all explaining why they should be overexcited and very worried. | the-press | Terry Pratchett | |
| 511c95e | How many books are there?" said Masklin. "Hundreds! Thousands!" "Do you know what they're all about?" Gurder looked at him blankly. "Do you know what you're saying?" he said. "No. But I want to find out." "They're about everything! You'd never believe it! They're full of words even I don't understand!" "Can you find a book which tells you how to understand words you don't understand?" said Masklin. Gurder hesitated. "It's an intriguing thou.. | reading | Terry Pratchett | |
| 2cdec39 | They say this fruit be like unto the world / So sweet. Or like, say I, the heart of man / So red without and yet within, unclue'd / We find the worm, the rot, the flaw. / However glows his bloom the bite / Proves many a man be rotten at the core. | Terry Pratchett |