“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
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“You only get one life. I've just made a decision to change things a bit and spend what's left of mine looking after me for a change.”
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
― Bridget Jones’s Diary
“You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.”
― Mad About the Boy
― Mad About the Boy
“grief is a house
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to reflect us
the walls how to contain us
grief is a house that disappears
each time someone knocks at the door
or rings the bell
a house that blows into the air
at the slightest gust
that buries itself deep in the ground
while everyone is sleeping
grief is a house where no one can protect you
where the younger sister
will grow older than the older one
where the doors
no longer let you in
or out”
― The Sky Is Everywhere
where the chairs
have forgotten how to hold us
the mirrors how to reflect us
the walls how to contain us
grief is a house that disappears
each time someone knocks at the door
or rings the bell
a house that blows into the air
at the slightest gust
that buries itself deep in the ground
while everyone is sleeping
grief is a house where no one can protect you
where the younger sister
will grow older than the older one
where the doors
no longer let you in
or out”
― The Sky Is Everywhere
“Call me old-fashioned, but I did read in Glamour that one’s shorts should always be longer than one’s vagina.”
― Mad About the Boy
― Mad About the Boy
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