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  • #1
    Ali Smith
    “Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”
    Ali Smith

  • #2
    Anaïs Nin
    “I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #3
    Lionel Shriver
    “...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #4
    Lionel Shriver
    “In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #5
    Lionel Shriver
    “Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #6
    Lionel Shriver
    “I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #7
    Lionel Shriver
    “The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #8
    Lionel Shriver
    “I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #9
    Lionel Shriver
    “Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio. You go to your little job or your little school, but you're not going to hear about that on the 6:00 news, since guess what. Nothing is really happening. You read the paper, or if you're into that sort of thing you read a book, which is just the same as watching only even more boring. You watch TV all night, or maybe you go out so you can watch a movie, and maybe you'll get a phone call so you can tell your friends what you've been watching. And you know, it's got so bad that I've started to notice, the people on TV? Inside the TV? Half the time they're watching TV. Or if you've got some romance in a movie? What to they do but go to a movie? All those people, Marlin," he invited the interviewer in with a nod. "What are they watching?"

    After an awkward silence, Marlin filled in, "You tell us, Kevin."

    "People like me.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #10
    Lionel Shriver
    “The existence of other people is essentially awkward.”
    Lionel Shriver, Checker and the Derailleurs

  • #11
    Lionel Shriver
    “Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.”
    Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

  • #12
    Alyson Noel
    “Hating requires caring. In which case, I couldn't possibly hate you.”
    Alyson Noel, Blue Moon

  • #13
    Richard Yates
    “It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”
    Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

  • #14
    Leo F. Buscaglia
    “...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.”
    Leo F. Buscaglia

  • #15
    Criss Jami
    “I would rather a romantic relationship turn into contempt than turn into apathy. The passion in the extremities make it appear as though it once meant something. We grow from hot or cold, but lukewarm is the biggest insult.”
    Criss Jami, Killosophy

  • #16
    David  Wong
    “Scientists talk about dark matter, the invisible, mysterious substance that occupies the space between stars. Dark matter makes up 99.99 percent of the universe, and they don't know what it is. Well I do. It's apathy. That's the truth of it; pile together everything we know and care about in the universe and it will still be nothing more than a tiny speck in the middle of a vast black ocean of Who Gives a Fuck.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End

  • #17
    Gillian Flynn
    “I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.”
    Gillian Flynn, Dark Places

  • #18
    Mother Teresa
    “If I look at the mass I will never act.”
    Mother Teresa

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
    or that the hummingbird is so seldom
    seen
    or that we are too senseless to go
    insane.

    coffee. give us more of that NOTHING
    coffee.”
    Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

  • #20
    David  Wong
    “And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.”
    David Wong, John Dies at the End

  • #21
    Terry Eagleton
    “After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.”
    Terry Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right

  • #22
    Richard Matheson
    “We've forgotten much. How to struggle, how to rise to dizzy heights and sink to unparalleled depths. We no longer aspire to anything. Even the finer shades of despair are lost to us. We've ceased to be runners. We plod from structure to conveyance to employment and back again. We live within the boundaries that science has determined for us. The measuring stick is short and sweet. The full gamut of life is a brief, shadowy continuum that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached. We hardly know how to doubt anymore. (“The Thing”)”
    Richard Matheson, Collected Stories, Vol. 1

  • #23
    Melanie  Joy
    “Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning.”
    Melanie Joy, Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism

  • #24
    Shannon L. Alder
    “It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.”
    Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

  • #25
    Rasmenia Massoud
    “Hate isn’t the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn’t free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you’ve created a new person, a new life that you can live with.”
    Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

  • #26
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #27
    Kahlil Gibran
    “You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
    Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

  • #28
    Plato
    “Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
    Plato

  • #29
    I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
    Sarah Williams

  • #30
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
    Leonardo da Vinci



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