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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #2
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #3
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    Robert Frost

  • #4
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #5
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #7
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    “Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
    Zelda Fitzgerald

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #9
    Charles Bukowski
    “My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
    Charles Bukowski, Factotum

  • #10
    Charles Bukowski
    “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #11
    Charles Bukowski
    “I will remember the kisses
    our lips raw with love
    and how you gave me
    everything you had
    and how I
    offered you what was left of
    me,
    and I will remember your small room
    the feel of you
    the light in the window
    your records
    your books
    our morning coffee
    our noons our nights
    our bodies spilled together
    sleeping
    the tiny flowing currents
    immediate and forever
    your leg my leg
    your arm my arm
    your smile and the warmth
    of you
    who made me laugh
    again.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #12
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a place in the heart that
    will never be filled

    a space

    and even during the
    best moments
    and
    the greatest times
    times

    we will know it

    we will know it
    more than
    ever

    there is a place in the heart that
    will never be filled
    and

    we will wait
    and
    wait

    in that space.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “I often carry things to read
    so that I will not have to look at
    the people.”
    Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

  • #14
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #15
    Jodi Picoult
    “I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.”
    Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

  • #16
    Jodi Picoult
    “When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.”
    Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

  • #17
    Jodi Picoult
    “Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”
    Jodi Picoult, Second Glance

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “it was like any other
    relationship, there was
    jealousy on both sides,
    there were split-ups and
    reconciliations.
    there were also fragmented moments of
    great peace and beauty.

    I often tried to get away from her and
    she tied to get away from me
    but it was difficult:
    Cupid, in his strange way, was really
    there.”
    Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “I want to
    let her know
    though
    that all the nights
    sleeping
    beside her

    even the useless
    arguments
    were things
    ever splendid

    and the hard
    words
    I ever feared to
    say
    can now be
    said:

    I love
    you.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #20
    Jodi Picoult
    “People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that's not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”
    Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
    tags: love

  • #21
    Jodi Picoult
    “Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.”
    Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

  • #22
    Jodi Picoult
    “I would rather be in minority and be right, than in the majority and wrong.”
    Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

  • #23
    Jodi Picoult
    “Believe me, Being gay is not a choice. Noone would choose to make life harder than it has to be.”
    Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

  • #24
    Jodi Picoult
    “It's also worth noting that, when you meet someone, you never ask if he's right- or left-handed.
    After all: Does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?”
    Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

  • #25
    Jodi Picoult
    “I don’t think anyone who falls in love has a choice. You’re just pulled to that person like true north, whether it’s good for you or bound to break your heart.”
    Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

  • #26
    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    Joseph Campbell

  • #27
    Maggie Stiefvater
    “I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.”
    Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

  • #28
    George Carlin
    “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
    George Carlin

  • #29
    George Carlin
    “The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
    George Carlin

  • #30
    A.A. Milne
    “Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
    "Pooh!" he whispered.
    "Yes, Piglet?"
    "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
    A.A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner



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