Deborah > Deborah's Quotes

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

“Si te caes te levanto y sino me acuesto contigo”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

“No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected.”
― Lynda Barry, Cruddy

“Porque la clave del amor, como me dijo alguna vez mi analista, está en reconocer los defectos del otro y preguntarse
sinceramente si uno puede tolerarlos sin estar todo el tiempo protestando, y ser feliz a pesar de ellos.”
― Gabriel Rolón, Historias de diván: Ocho relatos de vida

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Love isn't always pretty. Sometimes you spend all your time hoping it'll eventually be something different. Something better. Then, before you know it, you're back to square one, and you lost your heart somewhere along the way.”
― Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love

“Tuviste la oportunidad de sembrar una semilla de amor, pero preferiste perpetuar el odio. Elegiste enseñar a tener miedo.”
― Juan Solá, Microalmas

“they did not tell me it would hurt like this no one warned me about the heartbreak we experience with friends where are the albums i thought there were no songs sung for it i could not find the ballads or read the books dedicated to writing the grief we fall into when friends leave it is the type of heartache that does not hit you like a tsunami it is a slow cancer the kind that does not show up for months has no visible signs is an ache here a headache there but manageable cancer or tsunami it all ends the same a friend or a lover a loss is a loss is a loss - the underrated heartache”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“their concept of beauty is manufactured. Iam not.”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“if i am the longest relationship of my life isn’t it time to nurture intimacy and love with the person i lie in bed with each night”
― Rupi Kaur, The Sun and Her Flowers

“Habituarse a una hermosa risa humana, a un cuerpo vivo, cuesta muy poco. Dejar partir, en cambio —dominar el arte de perder—, cuesta la vida.”
― Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad (Libros del Asteroide nº 228)

“i have never known anything more quietly loud than anxiety”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“my mind keeps running off to dark corners and coming back with reasons for why i am not enough”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“i have this productivity anxiety
that everyone else is working harder than me
and i’m going to be left behind
cause i’m not working fast enough
long enough
and i’m wasting my time

i don’t sit down to have breakfast
i take it to go
i call my mother when i’m free—otherwise
it takes too long to have a conversation

i put off everything that
won’t bring me closer to my dreams
as if the things i’m putting off
are not the dream themselves

isn’t the dream
that i have a mother to call
and a table to eat breakfast at

instead i’m lost in the sick need
to optimize every hour of my day
so i’m improving in some way
making money in some way
advancing my career in some way
because that’s what it takes
to be successful
right

i excavate my life
package it up
sell it to the world
[...]

capitalism got inside my head
and made me think my only value
is how much i produce
for people to consume
capitalism got inside my head
and made me think
i am of worth
as long as i am working

i learned impatience from it
i learned self-doubt from it
learned to plant seeds in the ground
and expect flowers the next day

but magic
doesn’t work like that
magic doesn’t happen
cause i’ve figured out how to
pack more work in a day
magic moves
by the laws of nature
and nature has its own clock
magic happens
when we play
when we escape
daydream and imagine
that’s where everything
with the power to fulfill us
is waiting on its knees for us

- productivity anxiety”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“not everything you do has
to be self-improving
you are not a machine
you are a person
without rest
your work can never be full
without play
your mind can never be nourished

- balance”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“don’t sleep on
the doormat of your potential
waiting for things to happen
when you could be
the thing that happens”
― Rupi Kaur, Home Body

“Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“(…) we are all part a continuum, repeat after me, the future is in the past and the past is in the present”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“it’s easy to forget that England is made up of many Englands”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life. Told to others, but—mainly—to ourselves.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending