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#1

“I wonder how much victimhood they’d be willing to grant a girl like me.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

#2

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

tags: death, hatred, love, selfishness

633 likes

#3

“Shame cast long shadows”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

19 likes

#4

“The world would be a better place if everyone did more thinking and less talking. There might be a lot less hatred.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World

61 likes

#8

“Wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without admitting that we want it.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: desire

117 likes

#9

“It's both creepy and out of my control, this ability I have to notice so much about other people when I'm positive no one notices anything at all about me.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

105 likes

#10

“There was something about girls that guys didn't have and would never have. They were amazing. Maybe one day, instead of always having to prove they were real men, guys would study women's behavior and start acting a little more like them. Now, that would be awesome.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

tags: feminism

27 likes

#10

“I had rehearsed losing him not just to ward off suffering by taking it in small doses beforehand, but, as all superstitious people do, to see if my willingness to accept the very worst might not induce fate to soften its blow.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

72 likes

#11

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, Valis

tags: qotd

9101 likes

#11

“Think of the pain before the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

74 likes

#12

“Psychopathy or sadism never appeared from nowhere. It was not a virus, infecting someone out of the blue. It had a long prehistory in childhood.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

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#12

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love

3388 likes

#13

“Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Because you're feeling too much. And you can't always control the things you do when you're feeling too much.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

887 likes

#14

“There was a word for this moment in Greek tragedy: anagnorisis—recognition—the moment the hero finally sees the truth and understands his fate—and how it’s always been there, the whole time, in front of him. Mariana used to wonder what that moment felt like. Now she knew.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Maidens

17 likes

#15

“Sometimes I think that I’m nothing but a lot of emotions all tangled up in my body and I don’t know how to untangle them.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

55 likes

#16

“There are times when I wanted the worst for you, Hoping you would understand The roots of my thoughts. I needed you to feel the pain I held, But here I am Praying you never feel like I did. Hoping no one ever sees you Like the way you saw me.”
― F.S. Yousaf, Euphoria

1 likes

#21

“Sometimes telling someone you like them is a helluva lot better than telling someone you love them.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

9 likes

#24

“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: aliens, death, depression, life, loss, love, space, suicide, teen, ya

583 likes

#25

“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

tags: language, laziness, morose, tired, very, women

1387 likes

#29

“Just because something doesn't last forever doesn't mean it isn't meaningful”
― Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

25 likes

#30

“The weak fear happiness itself. They can harm themselves on cotton wool. Sometimes they are wounded even by happiness”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

787 likes

#33

“Will you be courageous enough to create the art that you truly desire to create rather than settling for the art that you feel is necessary? It”
― Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

2 likes

#35

“People talk of “social outcasts.” The words apparently denote the miserable losers of the world, the vicious ones, but I feel as though I have been a “social outcast” from the moment I was born. If ever I meet someone society has designated as an outcast, I invariably feel affection for him, an emotion which carries me away in melting tenderness.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

582 likes

#37

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

1671 likes

#39

“As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn’t matter how, I’ll be alright. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won’t mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

663 likes

#41

“When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think”
― Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society: The Screenplay

tags: dead-poets-society, john-keating, tom-schulman

544 likes

#43

“There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: discovery, life, we-are-the-ants, world

72 likes

#44

“Money is not the root of all kinds of evil. The love of money is. It's also the root of a lot of bad art.”
― Michael Gungor, The Crowd, The Critic And The Muse: A Book For Creators

tags: art, creative, evil, money

1 likes

#47

“Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long dead and buried deep.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

tags: dreams, life, memories, we-are-the-ants

199 likes

#48

“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human

839 likes

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