Cris > Cris's Quotes

“Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.”
― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

“I am rooted, but I flow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, Politics and the English Language

“Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Like deathbed conversions, last paragraph soul-saving does not convince.”
― Rosellen Brown

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Selected Poems and Letters

“Oh, my daughter,” I said. “You will forget that I am here. This is the way of human beings, to forget. But you found your way back to me once and so can find your way back again, because I am always here. The world will hurt you again and again. You will hurt yourself again and again. And when it does, and when you do, you will remember me again and again. You will drop to your knees. You will hold yourself. You will be your own daughter again.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“I felt that our kissing could sustain the ritual of women loving women for eons to come.”
― Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“It is a common saying that women are delicate creatures, flowers, eggs, anything that may be crushed in a moment's carelessness. If I had ever believed it, I no longer did.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“& remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“I didn't know the cost
of entering a song - was to lose
your way back.”
― Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

“Why do you want to hide it from me?'
'I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours.”
― Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

“People say “sell your soul” like it’s easy. But your soul is yours and it’s not for sale. Even if you try, it’ll still be there, waiting for you to remember it.”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black: NYT Bestselling Literary Satire – Urgent African American Stories About Systemic Racism

“I’m trying to be nice because I’m transcending, but I really don’t fuck with you. Get it?”
― Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black: NYT Bestselling Literary Satire – Urgent African American Stories About Systemic Racism

“gender is one of the biggest lies of our civilization”
― Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

“Gosto de ver as palavras plenas de sentido ou carregadas de vazio no varal da linha. Palavras caídas, apanhadas, surgidas, inventadas na corda bamba da vida.”
― Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água

“Mas achava também que qualquer vida era um risco e o risco maior era o de não tentar viver.”
― Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d'Água