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#1

“I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.”
― Rick Moody

#2

“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”
― Natsuo Kirino, Grotesque

tags: decay, grotesque, women

122 likes

#3

“Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.”
― Kobo Abe, The Woman in the Dunes

188 likes

#4

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither

58024 likes

#5

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
― Tom Bodett

tags: happiness, hope, joy, love, wishing

8119 likes

#6

“You never realize how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.”
― Tom Wolfe

1792 likes

#7

“Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.”
― Jeff Lindsay, Dexter in the Dark

tags: black-lizard, vintage-crime

326 likes

#8

“Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?”
― Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

278 likes

#9

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.”
― Gilda Radner

3348 likes

#10

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

39248 likes

#11

“The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.”
― Neil LaBute, Reasons to Be Pretty

2703 likes

#12

“I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

426 likes

#13

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”
― Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

720 likes

#14

“The shortest horror story:

The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”
― Frederic Brown

tags: funny, horror

212 likes

#15

“The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.”
― Stephen King

46 likes

#16

“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”
― Balzac

149 likes

#17

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

71689 likes

#18

“What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.”
― Nora Ephron

2327 likes

#19

“You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.”
― Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies

tags: live-in-the-here-and-now, memory, recollection

746 likes

#20

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: truth

16223 likes

#21

“Love and death are not different things, they are the front and back of the same thing”
― Otsuichi, Zoo

10 likes

#22

“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: books, reading

27729 likes

#23

“It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

4186 likes

#24

“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

tags: books, reading

16493 likes

#25

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

1891 likes

#26

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

2113 likes

#27

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

tags: parenting, role-models

3061 likes

#28

“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
― Sigmund Freud

2837 likes

#29

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151468 likes

#30

“One of the more excruciating emotional disconnects for me is when someone says something they think is poignant and I receive it as complete bullshit.”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

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