Introduction to the Body in Fairy Tales by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Tag: quotation
Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone (via quoted-books)
Nothing sounds idiotic if it’s wet enough.
Blanche, Golden Girls (TV Show, S5E6, “Dancing in the Dark”)
It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.
Jay Kristoff, Kinslayer (via booksqouted)
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die.
Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road (via simply-quotes)
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it’s in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quoted-books)
Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.
Ray Bradbury (via liquidnight)
I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.
Elizabeth Berg, Talk Before Sleep (via wordsnquotes)
Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you’ll find an edge to cut you.
Mark Lawrence, Prince of Thorns (via quoted-books)
secretive dreams 