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  • #1
    Alice Munro
    “Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.”
    Alice Munro
    tags: life

  • #2
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #3
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the speed of the assembly line. At first, workers rebelled. They quit in droves, unable to accustom their bodies to the new pace of the age. Since then, however, the adaptation has been passed down: we've all inherited it to some degree, so that we plug right into joy-sticks and remotes, to repetitive motions of a hundred kinds.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

  • #4
    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you'd seen her handwriting you knew she was deliciously complicated inside.”
    Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot

  • #5
    Charles Bukowski
    “when the phone rings
    I too would like to hear words
    that might ease
    some of this.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #6
    Charles Bukowski
    “I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
    just as crazy as the rest of them.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #7
    Charles Bukowski
    “I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the dresser; the way they said, 'I’m going to pee.' hair ribbons; walking down the boulevard with them at 1:30 in the afternoon, just two people walking together; the long nights of drinking and smoking; talking; the arguments; thinking of suicide; eating together and feeling good; the jokes; the laughter out of nowhere; feeling miracles in the air; being in a parked car together; comparing past loves at 3am; being told you snore; hearing her snore; mothers, daughters, sons, cats, dogs; sometimes death and sometimes divorce; but always carring on, always seeing it through; reading a newspaper alone in a sandwich joint and feeling nausea because she’s now married to a dentist with an I.Q. of 95; racetracks, parks, park picnics; even jails; her dull friends; your dull friends; your drinking, her dancing; your flirting, her flirting; her pills, your fucking on the side and her doing the same; sleeping together”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
    or a dark blue 1942 Buick
    or a blue 1932 Buick
    over a cliff of hell and into the
    sea.”
    Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “and then there are some who
    believe that old
    relationships can be
    revived and made new
    again.

    but please
    if you feel that way

    don't phone
    don't write
    don't arrive”
    Bukowski C.

  • #10
    Margaret Atwood
    “I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #11
    Margaret Atwood
    “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #12
    Margaret Atwood
    “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

  • #13
    Margaret Atwood
    “But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.”
    Margaret Atwood

  • #14
    Margaret Atwood
    “How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”
    Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

  • #15
    Maya Angelou
    “I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #16
    John Green
    “You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #17
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

  • #18
    John Green
    “When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

  • #19
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #20
    Augusten Burroughs
    “You deserve to need me, not to have me.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #21
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I felt deeply tricked. Stunned. And furious. I also felt my default emotion: numbness.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #22
    Augusten Burroughs
    “I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #23
    Augusten Burroughs
    “The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #24
    Augusten Burroughs
    “Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.”
    Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors

  • #25
    Tennessee Williams
    “In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”
    Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

  • #26
    William Shakespeare
    “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #27
    Alan W. Watts
    “But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”
    Alan Wilson Watts

  • #28
    Audrey Niffenegger
    “I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?”
    Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

  • #29
    Sylvia Plath
    “I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

  • #30
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood.”
    Friedrich Neitzsche



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