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“I can be a regular bitch. Just try me.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“One of them is that a bastard is always a bastard and if I can hurt a bastard by digging up shit about him, then he deserves it.”
― Stieg Larsson, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She was brave, and I never once saw her cry out of fear. She never cried because she was afraid that something would happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, would not happen… She believed if I gave in to make her fortune become realized, the world would be ultimately profound and beautiful. I guess I held out because I feared the realization of her fortune would mean the destruction of us together. And each time she cried, I fell a little more deeply in love with her.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving… We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins… We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers… We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.”
― Courtney Martin

“- Ех, момиче, нека ти кажа и аз нещо. Животът, любовта и децата не ни прнадлежат. Имат си собствени закони и собствен път. Идват точно когато са ни нужни и си отиват пак така, но никога случайно. По тяхната си логика, не по нашата. Затова много често не ги разбираме. Можем да направим само едно - да ги приемем с благодарност, когато дойдат, да им даден вичко най-красиво от себе си и да ги изпратим пак с благодарност, че са споделили себе си с нас. Не тъгувай, Марина, и запомни: любовта не свършва и не умира, тя просто си отива... На друго място, при други сърца. И се връща при теб с друго лице, с друго сърце. Понякога със същото лице, със същия човек, но само тя знае защо отново ви среща. Явно не сме дорасли да познаваме тайната й. А може би истината е толкова близо до очите ни и толкова просто, че не я виждаме. Казах проста, но това не я прави лесна. (Демир)”
― Мария Лалева, Живот в скалите

“Никой и нищо не може да надвика човек, който крещи срещу собствената си рана. Това е най-глухият човек на света. И най-добрият учител по търпение.”
― Мария Лалева, Живот в скалите

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“How do you know that you are not part of a book? That someone's not reading your story right now?”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Baby," I said, "I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me."

She looked down at me. "Get up off the floor you damn fool and get me a drink.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“The truth of course is that if people really were as happy as they look on the Internet, they wouldn’t spend so much damn time on the Internet, because no one who’s having a really good day spends half of it taking pictures of themselves. Anyone can nurture a myth about their life if they have enough manure, so if the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, that’s probably because it’s full of shit.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
― Mark Twain

“Lesson number one: “Not my problem” is not a philosophy. It’s a mental illness. Right up there with pessimism. Other people’s problems are our problems. If your neighbor is laid off, you may feel as if you’ve dodged the bullet, but you haven’t. The bullet hit you as well. You just don’t feel the pain yet. Or as Ruut Veenhoven told me: “The quality of a society is more important than your place in that society.” In other words, better to be a small fish in a clean pond than a big fish in a polluted lake.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World

“But actually these two sides go together—you cannot have what is ‘in here’ unless you have what is ‘out there.”
― Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World