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  • #1
    Stephen  King
    “When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.”
    Stephen King, Storm of the Century

  • #2
    C.S. Lewis
    “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.”
    C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

  • #3
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #4
    Jodi Picoult
    “If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
    Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes

  • #5
    Sylvia Plath
    “I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #6
    Tennessee Williams
    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

  • #7
    Coco Chanel
    “It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.”
    Coco Chanel

  • #8
    Charles Bukowski
    “I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #9
    Jane Austen
    “If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
    Jane Austen, Emma

  • #10
    Neil Gaiman
    “I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?”
    Neil Gaiman, A Study in Emerald

  • #11
    Warsan Shire
    “You are terrifying and strange and beautiful, someone not everyone knows how to love.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #12
    Warsan Shire
    “You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn’t he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #13
    Warsan Shire
    “every mouth you’ve ever kissed
    was just practice
    all the bodies you’ve ever undressed
    and ploughed in to
    were preparing you for me.
    i don’t mind tasting them in the
    memory of your mouth
    they were a long hall way
    a door half open
    a single suit case still on the conveyor belt
    was it a long journey?
    did it take you long to find me?
    you’re here now,
    welcome home.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #14
    Warsan Shire
    “At the end of the day, it isn’t where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I’m going and never have been before.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #15
    Warsan Shire
    “you can't make homes out of human beings
    someone should have already told you that”
    warsan shire

  • #16
    Warsan Shire
    “i give myself five days to forget you.
    on the first day i rust.
    on the second i wilt.
    on the third day i sit with friends but i think about your tongue.
    i clean my room on the fourth day. i clean my body on the fourth day.
    i try to replace your scent on the fourth day.
    the fifth day, i adorn myself like the mouth of an inmate.
    a wedding singer dressed in borrowed gold.
    the midas of cheap metal.
    tinsel in the middle of summer.
    crevice glitter, two days after the party.
    i glow the way unwanted things do,
    a neon sign that reads;
    come, i still taste like someone else’s mouth.”
    Warsan Shire

  • #17
    Maurice Sendak
    “I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #18
    Maurice Sendak
    “And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.”
    Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are
    tags: love

  • #19
    Richard Bach
    “The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
    Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

  • #20
    “I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”
    Uma Thurman

  • #21
    Joan Crawford
    “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.”
    Joan Crawford

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

  • #23
    Jay McInerney
    “The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.”
    Jay McInerney, The Last of the Savages

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

  • #25
    Heinrich Heine
    “We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged”
    Heinrich Heine

  • #26
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge; but if you cripple them there is nothing they can do. If you need to injure someone, do it in such a way that you do not have to fear their vengeance.”
    Niccolo Machiavelli

  • #27
    Alice Sebold
    “You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
    Alice Sebold

  • #28
    Jarod Kintz
    “I am my own tornado. Instead of panicking, I run in circles and scream.”
    Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

  • #30
    Dorothy Parker
    “They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”
    Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

  • #31
    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    Margaret Atwood



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