Ever since I was a child, I have preferred to inhabit the fictional lives of others, hiding in stories that have happier endings than my own; we are what we read.
“Artificial overstimulation seemed like the perfect way to stifle a generation of young people who wanted more and more from a world where less and less was available.”
― Beautiful You
― Beautiful You
“It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.”
― Go Ask Alice
― Go Ask Alice
“I haven’t the slightest interest in being happy. I prefer to live life passionately, which is dangerous because you never know what might happen next.”
― Adultery
― Adultery
“Time is all you have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.”
― The Last Lecture - Lessons In Living
― The Last Lecture - Lessons In Living
“When night comes and no one is watching, I feel afraid of everything: life, death, love or the lack of it; the fact that all novelties quickly become habits; the feeling that I’m wasting the best years of my life in a pattern that will be repeated over and over until I die; and sheer panic at facing the unknown, however exciting and adventurous that might be.”
― Adultery
― Adultery
Dalia’s 2025 Year in Books
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