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#1

“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

354 likes

#2

“I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
― Nina LaCour, We Are Okay

169 likes

#3

“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

935 likes

#4

“You have to live simply to survive happily.”
― Phoebe Gloeckner, The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures

9 likes

#5

“At last Emory turned to leave, well pleased, and then a thought flashed through Ama’s mind, a realization that chilled her even more deeply than the rain –
This is how he likes me best… when I am in need of rescue.”
― Elana K. Arnold, Damsel

8 likes

#6

“thus with a kiss I die”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: history, romance

2212 likes

#7

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, moon, romeo-nad-juliet

1338 likes

#8

“I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die”
― Tony Kushner, Angels in America

65 likes

#9

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: classics, education

838 likes

#10

“I defy you, stars.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

513 likes

#11

“Love makes us such fools.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

tags: love

434 likes

#12

“What an ugly, loveless life for a girl.”
― Sophocles, Electra

tags: electra, hard-life, hardship, loveless, sophocles, suffering, ugly, unloved

20 likes

#13

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.
End of fucking story.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

3051 likes

#14

“I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White

tags: humanity, pain

33 likes

#15

“What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

tags: boyfriend, dead, death, love, love-life

5 likes

#16

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: breath, existence

9771 likes

#17

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: friendship, humor, shared-ordeal

2292 likes

#18

“Had I truly thought I would not die when he kissed me? But I did. For a moment the breath and life went out of me and there was no time and no tomorrow but only my lips against his.”
― Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death

tags: death, favorite, kiss, love

32 likes

#19

“A robber who steals a knife and cuts himself cannot cry out against the woman who kept it sharp.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

119 likes

#20

“And more to the point, I was reasonably certain he wasn’t going to try and devour my soul. My expectations for a husband had lowered.”
― Naomi Novik, Spinning Silver

98 likes

#21

“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: falling-in-love

893 likes

#22

“But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing we have for the opposite gender is women, said with disdain and punctuated with an eye roll.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

522 likes

#23

“You see it in all animals - the female of the species is more deadly than the male.'

'Except humans.”
― Mindy McGinnis, The Female of the Species

tags: girls, rape-culture, sexism, teenage-girls

200 likes

#24

“Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

110 likes

#25

“You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

234 likes

#26

“Men die. It's practically what they're for.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: death, gallows-humor

90 likes

#27

“How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

tags: koschei, marya-morevna

44 likes

#28

“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

tags: mindfulness, philosophy, present-moment

293 likes

#29

“O starry night, This is how I want to die”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

174 likes

#30

“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

65 likes

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