“I was so absorbed in the things that I couldn’t change, I forgot the most important thing.”
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
― Before the Coffee Gets Cold
“I wonder if anyone really identifies as the adult they’ve morphed into. I remember being sixteen and feeling eleven. I remember thinking, how could I be a teenager? I remember finishing high school and thinking, am I grown now? Is this what it feels like? I feel the same as I did before.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“I find it so bizarre that I occupy space, and that I am seen by other people.”
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
― Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
“Romance may be the world’s oldest cult. It hooks you when you’re vulnerable, scares the shit out of you, hold your deepest fears as collateral, renames you something like ‘baby,’ brainwashes you, then makes you think that your soul will wither and die if you let go of a person who loved you. So you better have a good goddamn reason for saying ‘nah, not enough.’ The love lobby is worse than the fun lobby. More misery, more addiction, more heads on spikes. And for what?”
― Cult Classic
― Cult Classic
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