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“What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“-Ama doktor, ben hasta değilim...Allah rızası için... size anlattım.
tekrar gözlerini gözlerime dikti en katî sesiyle:
-Hastasınız... diye kesip attı. Psikanaliz çıktığından beri hemen herkes az çok hastadır.”
― Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
tekrar gözlerini gözlerime dikti en katî sesiyle:
-Hastasınız... diye kesip attı. Psikanaliz çıktığından beri hemen herkes az çok hastadır.”
― Saatleri Ayarlama Enstitüsü
“I held on to the hope that one day I would grow up and have all the answers, just like my parents. As I look over at Arnold and then at Father Mike, I realize that adults are just as fucked as the rest of us. No one really grows up. No one unravels all of life's many mysteries. They just grow older and become better liars.”
― The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
― The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
“Once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“We all fight our own private wars.”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
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