Aix

“One grows old unknowingly. One accepts the passing of years as a phenomenon that has little bearing on one’s personality. And then, quite suddenly, one comes to the realisation that one’s contemporaries are growing a little old, falling off a little. One realises that one’s hair is white.”
― Nevile Shute

“Not everyone wants to be rescued.”
― Troy Costisick, The Huntsman and the She-Wolf

“Don’t stigmatize negative feelings; even pacifists, yogis, and nursery school teachers get road rage under the wrong circumstances. Some people have bad tempers or are chronically grouchy while others are stuck in situations that happen to hit their weak spots and drive them nuts. Either way, if you chastise yourself for having nasty feelings when you really can’t help it, you usually make them worse. After kicking yourself, you’re that much more likely to kick someone else.

Becoming more positive doesn’t mean becoming sweetly angelic, but rather, decently demonic, or at least decent enough that your friends don’t all tell you to go back to hell.”
― Michael I. Bennett, F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems

“But the horror... The horror was for love. The things we do for love like this are ugly, mad, full of sweat and regret. This love burns you and maims you and twists you inside out. It is a monstrous love and it makes monsters of us all.”
― Nancy Holder, Crimson Peak