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“God! Oh God!”

I smile as I pick up the pace, “God’s not the one fucking you, baby.”

Sure, I’m in love, but this is still me here.

“Drew…Drew…yes…Drew!”

Much better.”
― Emma Chase, Tangled

“Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.”
― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City

“I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or the hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe I'm moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.”
― Jonathan Ames, My Less Than Secret Life: A Diary, Fiction, Essays

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

“Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?”
― Neil Jordan, The Dream of a Beast

“One can acquire everything in solitude except character.”
― Stendhal, Five Short Novels of Stendhal

“I'm graduating and she corrected my vocabulary the other day. I said I felt nauseous, and she said the word I wanted was nauseated. Fucked me up, bro. Didn't know there was a difference.”
― J.M. Darhower, Sempre

“That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
― James Jones, From Here to Eternity

“You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone . . . waiting for something I could never give you.”
― Lucy Christopher, Stolen

“By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.”
― Aristotle

“I t-tried to stay away, do the right thing. B-because I ain't no go for you. But f*uck, I want you so b-bad I feel like I- I c-can't breathe. Can't p-push you away n-no more. Need to have you c-close.”
― Tillie Cole, It Ain't Me, Babe

“I can't help but notice that...well, you're in my life...at our house, with my family, in my world. But am I really in yours?....”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“No rest
without love,
No sleep
without dreams
of love -
be mad or chill
obsessed with angels
or machines
the final wish
is love.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems