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  • #1
    “Today I plan to smile a lot, only so people who know me will be freaked the fuck out.”
    R.D. Ronald

  • #2
    Susanna Kaysen
    “The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. Anything I thought or did was immediately drawn into the debate. Made a stupid remark—why not kill myself? Missed the bus—better put an end to it all. Even the good got in there. I liked that movie—maybe I shouldn’t kill myself.”
    Susanna Kaysen

  • #3
    Lionel Shriver
    “Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so - as if she had been gradually getting to know him for over nine years and then, bang, he was known. She'd been handed her diploma. There were no more surprises - or only this last surprise, that there were no more surprises. To torture herself, Irina kept looking, and looking, at Lawrence's face, like turning the key in an ignition several times before resigning herself that the battery was dead.”
    Lionel Shriver, The Post-Birthday World

  • #5
    Cormac McCarthy
    “On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”
    Cormac McCarthy, The Road

  • #6
    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”
    Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Insulted and Humiliated

  • #7
    José Saramago
    “Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own aristocratic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.”
    José Saramago, Death with Interruptions

  • #8
    Tanya Thompson
    “Do you know the difference between neurotics and psychotics?” He answered before I could speak, “Neurotics build castles in the sky; psychotics move into them.” And”
    Tanya Thompson, Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade

  • #9
    Aldous Huxley
    “The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundant life, which is lived according to the dictates of the insulated self. It is nature denatured by the distorting spectacles of our appetites and revulsions. It is the finite divorced from the Eternal. It is multiplicity in isolation from its non-dual Ground. It is time apprehended as one damned thing after another. It is a system of verbal categories taking the place of the fathomlessly beautiful and mysterious particulars which constitute reality. It is a notion labelled 'God'. It is the Universe equated with the words of our utilitarian vocabulary.”
    Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun

  • #10
    Susan  Rowland
    “If the Agency could become a container for something neither Anna nor Mary had known before: a family. Now, without Caroline depending on her, Anna was alone. It did not taste good. There were voices inside: I am risking everything; I could lose everything.”
    Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

  • #11
    A.R. Merrydew
    “If you could travel back in time, you would miss out on all of the mistakes you made. You would undoubtedly be someone very different. Long live my past and my mistakes.”
    A.R. Merrydew

  • #12
    Edward        Williams
    “I sat there in the lobby with a 7Up and a hog-tied Japanese nymphomaniac locked in my room”
    Edward Williams, Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution

  • #13
    Euripides
    “لا يليق بك إخفاء النصيحة المفيدة عن أحبابك.”
    Euripides, Suppliant Women

  • #14
    Jon Krakauer
    “Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don’t need to worry about me; I have a college education. I’m not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.”
    Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

  • #15
    James   McBride
    “The journey ahead was long. There was no promise ahead. There was no need to rush now.”
    James McBride, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

  • #16
    Arthur Golden
    “Sadness was a very heavy thing.”
    Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

  • #17
    Veronica Roth
    “Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.”
    Veronica Roth, Divergent

  • #18
    Jean Craighead George
    “when the weather is as near to you as your skin and as much a part of your life as eating.”
    Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain



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