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The person who loves you has picked you out of the great mass of uncreated clay which is humanity to make something out of, and the poor lumpish clay which is you wants to find out what it has been...
“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the...
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe.
She left pieces of her life behind her everywhere she went. It's easier to feel the sunlight without them, she said. ― Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas.
"You can hear something over and over and over and over and over and still not hear it. It does not click. No lo comprendo. Until you're ready to hear it.
“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.” ― Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths and Other Plays.
“Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.” ― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle.
“The idea hovered and shivered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst.
"You can never totally hate someone who sang you to sleep like that, can you. Who calmed you down and eased your fears.
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”.
“Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you’re doing.
“The pearls weren't really white, they were a warm oyster beige, with little knots in between so if they broke, you only lost one.
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted.
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings -- always darker, emptier and simpler.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche.
“I see, at intervals, the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of the cage; a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high”.
“My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my back the poetry I had read. So I lived for half a century until wordlessly we met.
“I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and...
“This was how we’d always played. You were Cinderella, I was a mouse. You were Alice, I was the Hatter. You were the sun, and I wasn’t even the moon.
“What a silly thing love is...It is not half as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen and making one believe things that are not...
“The person who loves you has picked you out of the great mass of uncreated clay which is humanity to make something out of, and the poor lumpish clay which is you wants to find out what it has been...
“There are many things I don't know, but quite a few I do. I know you can't be lost if you know where you are. I know that life is full of precious and fragile things, and not all of them are pretty.
"Because your eyes are always honest. They will always be telling the truth, even if your mouth is telling a lie.".
“So she carefully rebuilt the glass jar of her heart, fusing the shards into place until the bottle was perfect. She shoved in the feelings before they suffocated her.” — Jackie Morse Kessler,...
"Sometimes people just want to be happy, even if it's not real." - Veronica Roth, Insurgent.
"You know why trees smell the way they do?", Murphy asked, looking up from her hammering. "Sap?", Logan guessed. "Chlorophyll?" Murphy shook her head. "Stars.
“Like the stars, fading with the halo of the vanishing moon. Like the ocean, falling and whispering against the shore. Nothing ever really goes away - it just changes into something else.
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
“Time was like that, though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.” ― Aprilynne Pike, Illusions.
“After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the...
"I don't want to change anything, because I don't know how to deal with change. I' m used to the way I am." - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.
I’ll tell you another secret, this one for your own good. You may think the past has something to tell you.
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles William Eliot.
I want a late night adventure. I want someone to call me up and say, “I’m outside. Let’s go do something!” I want to go out late at night in my pj’s and my hair all tied up. Maybe drive around.
She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew. ― Shel Silverstein.
She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew. ― Shel Silverstein.
"How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?" - Amy Tan, The Kitchen God's Wife.
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." - Herman Melville.
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night" - Edgar Allan Poe.
“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.
“Before him he saw two roads, both equally straight; but he did see two; and that terrified him--he who had never in his life known anything but one straight line.
“An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.” - Louis Sachar, The Cardturner: A Novel About a King, a Queen, and a Joker..
“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person” - David Barry.
“I understand what you're saying, and your comments are valuable, but I'm gonna ignore your advice.” ― Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl.
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." - Albert Einstein.
“A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help.
“When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them.
The thing about lobsters is this: Even though they are the cockroaches of the sea, if you pet ther wet, shiny gray shell, they fall asleep. And if you pet something, you tend to name it.
“Time was like that though - racing forward when she wanted it to slow down, then crawling to a stop when she could least bear it.” ― Illusions, Aprilynne Pike.
Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in...
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact." - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle.
"The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in deep sleep, and all the dark things came out of...
" We wear the mask that grins and lies,. It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—. This debt we pay to human guile;. With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,. And mouth with myriad subtleties.".
"And books, they offer one hope - that the whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that new universe, one is saved." - Blackwood Farm, Anne Rice.
Dear John, I hope you can help me. The other day, I set off for work, leaving my husband in the house watching tv.
Let's not be upset if God doesn't grant our prayers immediately. Let's be grateful that God doesn't punish us immediately for our sins..
Life asked death, "Why do people love me, but hate you?" Death responded, "Because you are the beautiful lie, and I am the painful truth.".
Sometimes we must let go of our pride, and do what is requested of us..
" The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell.
Feelings can be controlled, but tears never lie..
There's always going to be the healthy person who dies young and the smoker who grows old. They're called statistical outliers..
According to Greek Mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces.
Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock.
Why do you sit there, in all your pustular and resplendent glory; drawing, nay; commanding all attention to your great mass.
Have you ever eaten food just so no one else can have it?.
I'm not fat. My stomach is 3D..
What do you call a fake noodle. An impasta..
Fact: You cannot breathe fast and hard while your tongue is out and your mouth is open.. Good boy. Now roll over..
These are taken from papers turned in by high school students: • His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.