February 2012
36 posts
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“Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because...”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
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“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘It might have...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh
“I am only responsible for my own heart. You offered yours up for the smashing,...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“Even if I left the world, I doubt anyone would notice, I would shout out from...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“If someone saved a seat for me and said that it’d be great if I stayed here with...”
– Natsume Asako
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“Stop eating yourself up. Things will go where they’re supposed to go if you just...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“You know, despite all my world-weariness and cynicism, I think I’ve always...”
– Daniel Handler
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“Who can really distinguish between the sea and what’s reflected in it? Or tell...”
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from...”
– Virginia Woolf’s suicide note
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“There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love...”
– The Lover’s Dictonary, David Levithan
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“No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die....”
– Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
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“I want to take back at least half of the “I love you”s, because I didn’t mean...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
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“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
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“I was laying in bed one night and I thought ‘I’ll just quit— to hell with it.’...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why...”
– Epicurus
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“People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they...”
– Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsunami
“You’re a wildflower. Wildflowers; they grow in the desert— the most horrible...”
– (via durianseeds)
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“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.”
– Ricky Gervais
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“That’s the advantage of insomnia. People who go to bed early always complain...”
– Banana Yoshimoto, N.P.
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“According to Aristophanes in Plato’s The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least...”
– Banana Yoshimoto
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“As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“I think you ought to know I’m feeling very depressed.”
– Marvin, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is...”
– David Levithan, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List
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“Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is...”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility
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“I wanted to tell you how you are beginning to be the one I can talk to. I don’t...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else...”
– David Levithan, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List
“I love you very much. I loved you from the first day I met you, and I still feel...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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“I don’t think people are meant to be by themselves. That’s why if you actually...”
– J.D., Scrubs
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“I know that I’m weird, but you know you’d be weird too if your mother aged...”
– Janitor’s wedding vows to Lady
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“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate....”
– Deepak Chopra
January 2012
51 posts
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“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long....”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
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“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares...”
– Banana Yoshimoto
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“Shakespeare said it best, Tamaru said quietly as he gazed at that lumpish,...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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“It’s just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can’t do...”
–
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“All kinds of things are happening to me,” I begin. “Some I chose, some I didn’t....”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel
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“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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“You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you?...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
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“One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets....”
– Lemony Snicket
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“Sometimes you have to test someone. Not because you don’t trust them, but to see...”
– Dean Koontz
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“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never...”
– Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship
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“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close