“I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have.”
― The Darkest Part of the Forest
― The Darkest Part of the Forest
“I guess that's the really nice thing about disappearing: the part where people look for you and beg you to come home.”
― Vanishing Girls
― Vanishing Girls
“There is a law out there, if not of thermodynamics then of something equally primary and inescapable, that explains why everything from instant messaging to fabulous sex to aspic can in the end be defined as an illustration of the futility of existence. And it really, really sucks.”
― Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
― Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
“Maybe if the men in my life weren’t always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn’t have to worry about bruises so much.”
― Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
― Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
“A Sanskrit word appeared in the paragraph: ANTEVASIN. It means, ‘one who lives at the border.’ In ancient times, this was a literal description. It indicated a person who had left the bustling center of worldly life to go live at the edge of the forest where the spiritual masters dwelled. The antevasin was not of the villager’s anymore-not a householder with a conventional life. But neither was he yet a transcendent-not one of those sages who live deep in the unexplored woods, fully realized. The antevasin was an in-betweener. He was a border-dweller. He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
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