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“All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
― Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
― Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.”
― The Little White Bird
― The Little White Bird
“At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
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you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want.”
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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
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“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently...
is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
about falling apart
silently...
is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like.”
― A Thousand Flamingos
“How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.”
― Blankets
― Blankets
“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
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“It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
― The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
“You shall address me as ‘My Dearest’,’ he repeated in a mocking voice, trying to copy her tone. ‘You will forget all about this conversation when you leave this room.’ It was interesting that tone; it had a sort of hypnotising ring to it.”
― The Three Witches and the Master
― The Three Witches and the Master
“The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,” he said. “It plants words as I plant stones. The Scroll-maker is my brother. He paints the mysteries of God while I, guided by the Mother, built the new Hall as a door to heaven,” he said.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.”
― Stay
― Stay
“...But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and as I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidæ with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars, or that a cat should play with mice... I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can.”
― The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
― The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin
“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
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“Waiting for the correct time to descend for cocktails, Mary sat on her bed and reviewed her impressions of the house party one by one. Belinda Choudhry M. P. she knew least. As mother of murdered Perdita, she was sure to be a volatile addition.”
― Murder On Family Grounds: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery
― Murder On Family Grounds: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery
“With Finn, Vic, and Maeve shooting darts at him, Buster thought better of bellyaching and took off down the street with Finn.”
― O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
― O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
“It was Russia, January 5, 1943, and just another icy day. Out among the city and snow, there were dead Russians and Germans everywhere. Those who remained were firing into the blank pages in front of them. Three languages interwove. The Russian, the bullets, the German.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.”
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