“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.”
― Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
― Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life
“I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.”
― Go Ask Alice
― Go Ask Alice
“What do you feel? I’ve never been asked this question once. None of us has. We aren’t supposed to feel. We’re British.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“I changed the world; the world changed me.
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.”
― A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”
― The Rum Diary
― The Rum Diary
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