625 quotes found
“What I wasnt expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced me to secret, dark pleasures. I would alw...”
“If I couldn't find the trail before dark, I could wake tomorrow disoriented and desperate, without having even made any new miles; my loss of the PCT should have distressed me, but a new instinct l...”
“It was no shock to me that my parents, like so many others, emerged out of a kind of fog. My father, an unrepentant chatterbox, claimed that his father had gone to dig for gold in Paramaribo, Dutch...”
“It was no shock to me that my parents, like so many others, emerged out of a kind of fog. My father, an unrepentant chatterbox, claimed that his father his father had gone to dig for gold in Parama...”
“I want her sinful arms wrapped around me,bloodied and angry and triumphant in shame.”
“By day I am nothing, by night I am I.”
“I had no doubt that I could do something, but what, and how? I had no contacts and I believed in nothing. And the obsession with my identity which I had developed in the factory hospital returned w...”
“All your life has been a journey to find an identity.”
“The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.”
“Some people unfold into a thousand wordsand others never speak to me at all,never take the blame at all,never look at me at all I wonder whyhe never looks at me at all (perhapshe cannot bear to me...”
“And keep in mind that the you that makes life worthy of living today wont be the same you that makes life worth living this time next year. Identities arent meant to be permanent. Theyre like cars:...”
“She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.”
“Am I on your page?" Jesse asked.Rosie knew Jesse liked her, loved her, maybe, but this was not about that."Yes," Rosie said, making eye contact with Jesse. "How could you not be on my page? ... (Bu...”
“I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observin...”
“Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality”
“You may know me... But you have no idea who I am...”
“People always say how you should be yourself. Like yourself is a definite thing, like a toaster or something.”
“Only the one who recognizes his power in Jesus Christ can build a strong team.”
“Put it on record--I am an ArabAnd the number of my card is fifty thousandI have eight childrenAnd the ninth is due after summer.What's there to be angry about?Put it on record.--I am an ArabWorking...”
“If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case.”
