Maya > Maya's Quotes

“But the fucked-up part is once you start self-harming, you can never not be a creepy freak, because your whole body is now a scarred and charred battlefield and nobody likes that on a girl, nobody will love that, and so all of us, every one, is screwed, inside and out. Wash, rinse, fucking repeat.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Don't let the cereal eat you. It's only a fucking box of cereal, but it will eat you alive if you let it.”
― Kathleen Glasgow, Girl in Pieces

“It was more difficult not to
understand than to understand.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, A Nasty Anecdote

“Be glad you don’t get it. It means your life has been a lot gentler than hers.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In a world where you can choose anger or empathy, always choose empathy,”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Hearts are made to be broken.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“He sort of lives in his own world."
"She clearly lives in that world with him.”
― Chloe Walsh, Redeeming 6

“Remind me to to make you smile like that again, when you aren't dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorise it.”
― Lauren Roberts, Powerless