Evan > Evan's Quotes

“Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Jag vill, i mitt liv, få älska någon som älskar mig.”
― Jonas Gardell, Kärleken

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap. We're all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Det er som en abstinens ikke å få se den man er forelska i. Du kjenner det, fysisk, i hele deg, hvordan du mangler noe essensielt, hvordan det som får deg til å puste, det som får føttene dine til å bevege seg, ikke fins lengre. Alt annet mister betydning. Folk sier det er vanskelig å slutte å røyke. Forsøk å slutte å være forelska når du er det. Det er umulig.”
― Tore Renberg, Mannen som elsket Yngve

“Jeg var bare trist. Jeg var bare skuffa. Vondt i kroppen, verk i hele meg. For Yngve var ikke der til å se meg. Hva kunne være viktigere, tenkte jeg, i min maniske, forelska logikk, enn å være her? Hva, Yngve? Jeg er jo her? Så syk kan du vel ikke være? Faen, hvor er du Yngve, det er jo helg, skal jeg ikke få se deg før mandag nå, da? Jeg er jo bare her for deg. Jeg har jo forandra meg for deg.”
― Tore Renberg, Mannen som elsket Yngve

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

“You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.”
― Vandana Shiva

“I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone.”
― Dan Howell

“The orange juice was sweet and sour, a sad and painful taste.”
― Ichigo Takano, Orange 1

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Chad kept kidding me that I was in love, and asking with whom, and then Sally and Walt did, too, and after a while I didn’t even mind, because even if they had the wrong idea about it, they were right. Soon it wasn’t hard any more to say it—to myself, I mean, as well as over and over again to Annie—and to accept her saying it to me.”
― Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind

“it could be that accidents and mistakes present the clearest opportunity for you to see life as it really is.”
― Teddy Steinkellner, Two Roads from Here

“But if you’re ever feeling stuck, then the best way out is to help someone else, someone who feels stuck too.”
― Teddy Steinkellner, Two Roads from Here

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

“the magic of being someone else is lost when you can never quite shed your own skin.”
― Julie Murphy, Dumplin'

“God wouldn’t have put us here if he didn’t have a purpose in mind—”
― Jaye Robin Brown, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

“fear does make a mighty wall of protection against the things people don’t understand.”
― Jaye Robin Brown, Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit

“Sometimes God wills for one of his children to experience human wickedness so that he will emerge stronger and nobler than ever.”
― Henri Charrière

“bronze fox, tarnished with fingerprints. The symbol of Locksley.”
― Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages

“That night in Robin’s arms I kissed his smooth throat, unmarked by the apple of Eve’s deceit. I touched the leather bindings beneath his tunic.”
― Saundra Mitchell, All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages