It was embarrassing, to say the least, that my heart’s truest form was . . . a credit card. Way to tell the whole world that a corner of my mind is forever colonized by the thought of my credit card debt.
“I think, You will never be free from this.
I think, You don't pick your thoughts.
I think, You are dying, and there are bugs inside of you that will eat through your skin.
I think and I think and I think.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
I think, You don't pick your thoughts.
I think, You are dying, and there are bugs inside of you that will eat through your skin.
I think and I think and I think.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
“Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“There's an expression in classical music. It goes, 'We went out to the meadow.' It's for those evenings that can only be described in that way: There were no walls, there were no music stands, there weren't even any instruments. There was no ceiling, there was no floor, we all went out to the meadow. It describes a feeling.
(Tom Waits quote)”
― Turtles All the Way Down
(Tom Waits quote)”
― Turtles All the Way Down
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of it goes: 'Blown from the dark hill hither to my door/ Three flakes, then four/ Arrive, then many more.' You can count the first three flakes, and the fourth. Then language fails, and you have to settle in and try to survive the blizzard”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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