Tag: quote
People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of change in a world without end.
Rebecca Solnit, from “The Millennium Arrives: November 9, 1989″ in Hope in the Dark (Nation Books, 2004)
He was my best friend. […] And now we’re like strangers. I’ll never have that person back, who I knew better than anyone and who knew me so well.
Jenny Han, P.S. I Still Love You (via booksqouted)
“I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
— Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every state I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move.
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In search of America
If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn’t afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they’re seventeen.
Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
There are young women who have goals other than finding a husband.
Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring (via simply-quotes)
There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.
Charles Baudelaire
Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called real name. All names are made up by someone else, even the one your parents gave you. You know who you really are. When you’re alone at night, looking up at the stars, or maybe lying in your bed in total darkness, you know that nameless person inside you.”
— Louis Sachar
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