January 2010
“You can never really know people. Not even the ones you love.”
“The truth is hard. The truth is awkward and very often the truth hurts. I mean,...”
“I’m slipping out of hope’s hands. I’m letting it drain out of me, I’m letting...”
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
“If you ask anyone in the throes of depression how he got there; if you ask him...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood...”
– Martha Manning
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get...”
– Stephen King
“Sometimes, I wish that I could die under tragic circumstances while I’m...”
“Have you ever notice that there is always that particular line in that certain...”
“Nobody knows a lot about me. They think they do, but they have no idea. Nobody...”
“I don’t know what I want, but I don’t want this.”
People are starting to ask what's wrong. And I...
(via 365thoughts)
“Time is quick to move on.”
“I can’t be the person you want me to be, and I’m sorry for that.”
“There’s a difference between someone who listens to you and someone who...”
“You were always one to listen, but never one to care.”
“Sometimes when a person means that much to you, not even the truth can change...”
bloodbankk: wekissedthestars: fuckuniform :alexperkins :tolosemylife :katieefiasco : helloruby:
Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror for so long that you begin to forget yourself and wonder who you are? If the person in he mirror is indeed you, or some strange phenomenon or trick in the brain. Your eyes don’t look quite...
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
– Charles Bukowski
bloodisthenewblackk:
manque:
usually when people ask questions they already have an answer in mind.
so what kind of a question is that?
excerpt from "my sister's keeper", by jodi picoult
It’s raining.
I go outside, and start walking. I head down the street and past the elementary school and through two intersections. I am soaked to the bone in about five minutes flat. That’s when I start to run. I run so fast that my lungs start to ache and my legs burn, and finally, when I cannot move another step, I fling myself down on my back in the middle of the school soccer...
“Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I’m cut into so many pieces...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I am a waste of cerebral evolution.”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“My father looked right at me, but he didn’t answer. And his eyes were...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I sometimes wonder if it is just me, or if there are other people who figure out...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I tell myself that I’ve invited him along to add to the thrill.—One...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I’m sure I’m worth a lot more dead than alive—The sum of the...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“Driving home, I am struck by the sudden thought that the world is...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
excerpt from "my sister's keeper", by jodi picoult
If I had to tell you how humans made their way to Earth, it would go like this: in the beginning, there was nothing at all but the moon and the sun. And the moon wanted to come out during the day, but there was something so much brighter that seemed to fill up all those hours. The moon grew hungry, thinner and thinner, until she was justa slice of herself, and her tips were as sharp as a knife. By...
“The thing about flame is that it’s insidious.—It sneaks, it licks,...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone.”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“Silence can push in at your eardrums in the dark, make you deaf.”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“…It’s like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music and...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“The question we cannot ask pushes through my veins with each beat: Is this it?...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I don’t know how to say what I really want to: that the people you love...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“There are some things we do because we convince ourselves it would be better for...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I wonder what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“I used to wonder about the fake pictures that came in frames you would buy at...”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“A real friend isn’t capable of feeling sorry for you.”
– Jodi Picoult, “My Sister’s Keeper”
“One fire burns out another’s burning,
One pain is lessen’d by...”
– William Shakespeare, “Romeo & Juliet”
“It’s easy to think, that if you can’t rescue, you must destroy.”
“All of the things I feel like I need to say, I can’t explain.”
“Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”
– Calvin and Hobbes (via quote-book)
“It’s how creativity works. Especially in humans. For every good idea, ten...”
– David Brin, Brightness Reef (1995) (via blogut) (via quote-book)
