January 2011
“In fact I was denying myself the food I needed as a way of punishing myself for my lack of self-confidence and success in the things I wanted to be successful at. This not eating was one thing at least which I was in full control of in a world where I seemed able to control little else to my advantage, and being thin was one way of proving to myself I could do things for myself.”
—The Wider Settting (via betterthanbones) (via skinnythinobsession)
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
—Francoise Sagan (via kari-shma)
“What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.”
—Paulo Coelho, The Zahir (via quote-book)
“A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”
—Jack Kerouac (via quote-book)
“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.”
—Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (via quote-book)
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
—E.B. White (via quote-book)
“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”
—Terry Pratchett (Thief of Time)
“Adoption is a wonderful alternative for women who don’t wish to be mothers, but abortion is the only alternative for pregnant women who don’t want to be pregnant.”
—The Girl’s Guide to Having an Abortion (via whatisanipomoea)
“A hundred times I wished to kill myself, but my love of life persisted. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of the most fatal of our faults. For what could be more stupid than to go on carrying a burden that we always long to lay down? To loathe, and yet cling to, existence? In short, to cherish the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten our hearts?”
—Voltaire, Candide (via silenceofthesirens)
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