14 quotes found
“You shouldn't have to convince anyone to choose you. There is no real choice in love.”
“Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it.”
“That's the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don't ask for or want, they just rush you anyway.”
“Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.”
“Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.”
“I think it's hard for you to fall in love because you like control, and you can't control what another person does or feels, so you keep all your cards.”
“You know that's not true. We have something, Helena. In another life, it would have been a beautiful something."That hurts. God, does it. I've seen that life. He doesn't even know what he's talking...”
“I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I'm hurting. But isn't that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?”
“Le Tub is a Miami oceanside restaurant that uses old bath tubs and toilets as decoration. If you're really lucky, you get a table by the water where you can see the manatees as they swim by. Someon...”
“I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. The last selfie I posted in there was of me on the day I graduated college. My perfectly made up f...”
“We think we can control our lives, but our lives control us. And everything that touches our lives controls us. People have less power than they think they do. It's just the reactions we control.”
“We are at that age that balances between independence and conferring with your friends about every miniscule decision you make. I've never liked that part of adolescence.”
“Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. Its the very same with sadness. ...”
“Was it me? Was I too cold? Too inexperienced? Not pretty enough? Not good enough in bed? And when disloyal, seed-sowing scum buckets slept with other girls, why did women look inward to find fault ...”
