302 quotes found
“If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your b...”
“It's too good, she is. She wants to find the good in others, and sometimes her way of finding that is to trust them, hoping she'll not be disappointed but she sometimes is.”
“Its complicated for me too. I know Im not the man you might want me to be, for a serious relationship. But I want you so much, I dont care. I want you, Kelly, and I can try to change, if you need m...”
“Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.”
“I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what its like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel.”
“Have you ever or are you now involved in espionage or sabotage, or in terrorist activities, or genocide? I think we can put a big yes down for all of the above.”
“And then I got to thinking about how, if someone met me for the first time now, they would need to know about Uncle Ed and my parents in order to understand me. Sometimes it feels as though Im defi...”
“I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.”
“When you've gone through something traumatic, when you've faced death and loss as much as we have, it's only natural that it changes your entire view of life.”
“We must learn to live in this world, because we have no other choice. What we do have a choice in is how we choose to live. We can remain gray and immobile in the wake of our losses or we can open ...”
“I am them. And they are me. All of us, we are each other. There is no such thing as good-bye.”
“He didn't sleep. His mother was too close. He could see every crease on her face, every worry line he'd ever given her.”
“... I have waited for this day, and grief faded with time.Or did it? Perhaps grief never leaves us but is merely drowned out by a flood of life overwhelming it. Perhaps the wound that bled once is ...”
“[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.”
“What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a good daughter. Most of all, I realize, is that it allowed me to maintain the lie that she ...”
“I heard a choking sound behind me. When I looked back, Cannoli was hanging from the backpack harness with her hind legs circling frantically in the air. She looked like she was riding a bike just a...”
“What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...”
“What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetic...”
“It's as if they've planned out my life for me and I'm expected to live it for them. I hate it. So I don't tell anyone much. It's easier that way." ~Dani O'Meara from the forthcoming amateur sleuth ...”
“Travel empties out everything youve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are”
