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Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away.
“We spend so much time wishing our lives were different, comparing ourselves to other people and to other versions of ourselves, when really most lives contain degrees of good and degrees of bad”
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“Change always comes with a closing cost. But it's still worth trying. Not because the odds are particularly good, mind you, but considering the alternative. There's value in the struggle. Value in touching the raw and bloody parts of our souls, opening them up to the sunlight, and hoping they heal.”
― The Roommate
― The Roommate
“The second rule is: perfume lives in time; it has its youth, its maturity, and its old age. And only
if it gives off a scent equally pleasant at all three different stages of its life, can it be called successful”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
if it gives off a scent equally pleasant at all three different stages of its life, can it be called successful”
― Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
“The point is to break the fucking cycle. Women aren't rehab centers for emotionally stunted man-babies who think the key to a serious relationship is to just wait for the right woman to come along. You have to be ready to be uncomfortable, to stretch yourself, to be vulnerable.... One of the most insidious ways that toxic masculinity destroys men is that it strips us (men) of the ability to express our emotions and to connect, not just with women, but with other men. Because "real men" don't do that, right?”
― Crazy Stupid Bromance
― Crazy Stupid Bromance
“it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can’t have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you’re in.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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