Tasha > Tasha's Quotes

“By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm. ”
― Alice Walker

“You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.”
― Alice Walker

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
― Charles Bukowski

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Something lurches in my gut. It’s like fear but . . . yummier.”
― Daniel José Older, Half-Resurrection Blues

“He wore a Panama hat, dark glasses with smoky round lenses and a gray suit that must have been tailored. I don’t know much about high fashion, I just know a good fit. The look reminded me of old Hollywood. Most men look silly to me in hats, but the effortless elegance of the tilt—the way it angled and contrasted with the level line of his shoulders—seemed totally organic. Like he could walk into a hurricane and come out the other side with his hat exactly the same angle.”
― Solace Ames, The Companion Contract

“He shot her an incredulous glance. “When do you sleep?” She glanced deliberately at her watch. “Sometime between fucking and ruling the world.”
― Alisha Rai, A Gentleman in the Street

“The door opens and the tiger leaps.”
― Virgina Woolf

“If your goal in life is to become fearless, then I believe you’re already on the wrong path, because the only truly fearless people I’ve ever met were straight-up sociopaths and a few exceptionally reckless three-year-olds—and those aren’t good role models for anyone.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” —MAYA ANGELOU”
― Alexis Jones, I Am That Girl: How to Speak Your Truth, Discover Your Purpose, and #bethatgirl

“It had been hard as hell for me to read some of those papers and not give the feedback that the student needed to jump off a cliff into a sea of dicks.”
― Christina C. Jones, Getting Schooled

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston