Quotes - Jen (Gloucester, GL, The United Kingdom) Showing 1-30 of 119

#1

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

tags: life, love

#2

“And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

tags: anticipation, beach, love, touching

11 likes

#3

“In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.”
― Amy Hempel, The Collected Stories

15 likes

#4

“There are things that can't be said, because it's hard to have to know them.”
― Ali Smith, The Accidental

tags: ali-smith, the-acciental

38 likes

#5

“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

tags: severity

572 likes

#6

“My roommate knocks on my door and I try not to move.
My heart is beating fast.
He knocks again and then leaves.
I win.
This is but one of the many victories I have exampled as a human among humans.
I have no equals.
My strength is unmatched.”
― Sam Pink, Person

tags: introversion

9 likes

#7

“My ideal date would involve painful silence. My ideal date wouldn't involve me.”
― Sam Pink, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It

tags: self-loathing

98 likes

#8

“I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey

2300 likes

#9

“Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

183 likes

#10

“Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.”
― Zadie Smith

tags: sadness, satisfaction, truth, unsatisfaction, veils, writing

67 likes

#11

“Perhaps sex isn't of the body at all. Perhaps it is a function of language.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

47 likes

#12

“I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.”
― Zadie Smith, NW

tags: identity

79 likes

#13

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”
― Ali Smith

92 likes

#14

“I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.”
― Ali Smith, How to be Both

13 likes

#15

“It feels good, honey, but it isn't love.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, You Must Remember This

51 likes

#16

“Her wish to die was as pervasive as a dial tone: you lift the receiver, it's always there.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless : Tales of Transgression

41 likes

#17

“I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

597 likes

#18

“When I was young I didn't understand, but now, I know, how absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

tags: absence, missing-someone

79 likes

#19

“As an intense, nicotine-stained, Jean-Paul Sartre sort of man, wasn't it simple logic to expect that he'd be limited to intense, nicotine-stained Jean-Paul Sartre sorts of Women?”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

13 likes

#20

“They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.”
― Richard Yates

10 likes

#21

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”
― Arthur Miller

tags: best, bravery, courage, embarassment, fear, fury, honor, human, memory, work, write, writing

195 likes

#22

“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything else.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

tags: lolita, mind, poison, poisoning, vladimir-nabokov

400 likes

#23

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

146 likes

#24

“Résumé
Razors pain you,
Rivers are damp,
Acids stain you,
And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful,
Nooses give,
Gas smells awful.
You might as well live.”
― Dorothy Parker, Enough Rope

tags: dark-humor, humor, suicide

2223 likes

#25

“I think charity is like putting a plaster on a man with no skin.”
― Ben Brooks, Grow Up

9 likes

#26

“I think the best way to escape your head isn’t to think about things that aren’t real, it’s to think about things that are and then imagine them happening to people who aren’t you.”
― Ben Brooks, Lolito

9 likes

#27

“He unzipped his hooded top and took it off, and wished emotions were like clothes, that he could remove them, fold them, set them somewhere.”
― Nick Laird, Glover's Mistake

6 likes

#28