HighHellsInHell > HighHellsInHell's Quotes

“There's nothing so off-putting to some people as someone who seems not to care whether anyone else approves of them. maybe it's resentment: I have bent for the greater good, to follow the rules, so why haven't you? You should care.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I've always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that's it. There's something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you're the only person who's ever made me feel like I'm okay.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“It’s possible that all those little moments that meant so much to me never meant quite the same thing to him. It’s possible that he didn’t reach out to me for two full years because, when we stopped speaking, he didn’t lose something precious the way that I did.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“I love you as much as I'm willing to love anybody.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I wore what I wanted when I wanted. I did what I wanted with who I wanted. And if somebody didn’t like it, screw ’em.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“But affection from millions and intimacy from that one special person are completely different beasts.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

“It's like some of us are chasing after our nightmares the way other people chase dreams" - Daisy”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I used to think soul mates were two of the same. I used to think I was supposed to look for somebody that was like me. I don't believe in soul mates anymore and I'm not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I'd believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn't, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who's suffering from the same stuff you are.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid , Daisy Jones & The Six

“It's so strange, how someone's silence, someone's insistence that something isn't happening can be so suffocating. But it can be. And suffocating is exactly the word, too. You feel like you can't breathe.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“I had an oversize sense of self-importance and absolutely no self-worth.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“We are talking about probably the first man in my life who really saw me, who ever really understood me, who had so much in common with me... and he still didn't love me. When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don't love you... I was burning.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Shasta's heart fainted at these words for he felt he had no strength left. And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy

“Here is perhaps the one man in the world whom you might leave alone without a penny,in the center of an unknown town of a million inhabitants,and he would not come to harm. he would not die of cold and hunger, for he would be fed and sheltered at once;and if he were not, he would find a shelter for himself, and would cost him no effort or humiliation.And to shelter him would be no burden, but , on the contrary, would probably be locked on as a pleasure.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“He is always late. It has been the start of many quarrels, and there was a time when he thought it was carelessness on his part, before he realized it was some strange attempt at self-preservation, an intentional, albeit subconscious dawdling, a delay of the inevitable, uncomfortable necessity of showing up.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“It is true that the idea of virtuous self-sacrifice is deeply embedded in Western culture (at least insofar as the West has been influenced by Christianity, which is based on the imitation of someone who performed the ultimate act of self-sacrifice). Any claim that the Golden Rule does not mean “sacrifice yourself for others” might therefore appear dubious. But Christ’s archetypal death exists as an example of how to accept finitude, betrayal and tyranny heroically—how to walk with God despite the tragedy of self-conscious knowledge—and not as a directive to victimize ourselves in the service of others. To sacrifice ourselves to God (to the highest good, if you like) does not mean to suffer silently and willingly when some person or organization demands more from us, consistently, than is offered in return. That means we are supporting tyranny, and allowing ourselves to be treated like slaves. It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“To sacrifice ourselves to God (to the highest good, if you like) does not mean to suffer silently and willingly when some person or organization demands more from us, consistently, than is offered in return. That means we are supporting tyranny, and allowing ourselves to be treated like slaves. It is not virtuous to be victimized by a bully, even if that bully is oneself.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“To think that between a Hamburger and a Humburger, she would - invariably, with icy precision - plump for the former.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“She searches his face. “Do I know you?” He bows his head over hers. “You are the only one who does.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue