Tess > Tess's Quotes

“We need never be ashamed of our tears.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“This cosmic dance of bursting decadence and withheld permissions twists all our arms collectively, but if sweetness can win, and it can, then I'll still be here tomorrow to high-five you yesterday, my friend. Peace.”
― Pendleton Ward, Adventure Time, Vol. 1

“If you ever have need of my life, come and take it.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

“I feel as if I had been in the world a thousand years, and I trail my life behind me like an endless scarf.”
― Anton Chekhov, The Sea-Gull

“at eleven years old the doctor weighed me & afterwards, my mother told me i was too fat & that i needed to go on a diet immediately. for an entire year, food barely passed through my lips. i did not even allow myself to take a sip of water because i wanted to be so thin that i could blow away with the slightest breeze— disappear. i dropped sixty pounds in a few short months & i had to wear long sleeves to cover up the “cat scratches.”   - everybody told me how good i looked, though.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“sticks & stones
never broke
my bones,
but words
made me
starve myself
until
you could
see all of them.
-skin & bone”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.

- except maybe yourself.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.”
― Epicurus

“Because I am enough. My heart is enough. The stories and the sentences twisting around my mind are enough. I am fizzing and frothing and buzzing and exploding. I'm bubbling over and burning up. My early-morning walks and my late-night baths are enough. My loud laugh at the pub is enough. My piercing whistle, my singing in the shower, my double-jointed toes are enough. I am a just-pulled pint with a good, frothy head on it. I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system. I am the warm-up act, the main event, and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is- just me and the trees and the sky and the seas- I know now that that's enough.”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

“A jediný, co v tom všem potřebuju, je ta úplně obyčejná a směšná útěcha. Ta, která mi dá možnost vydržet, než se zase dostanu nad hladinu a budu se moct nadechnout. Protože udržet se v životě nad hladinou trvale je pro člověka nemožný.”
― Petra Dvořáková, Chirurg

“The last thing that's needed is to judge your own heart, but then that's the first thing you go and do. A heart rushes to judge itself. A heart should have better things to do. A heart doesn't.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“It is the flowers in the soul of the person who put them there that make us happy and enliven our hearts. The beauty of the flowers is a clue to the beauty of a human heart. They are a keyhole into a human heart.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“She understood that the best and only good thing about death was that it was final. That there could be no negotiating with death was its one mercy, its only relief”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“She threw her heart out. She threw out her brain, her arms, her hair, her feet; she threw all of herself into the water, hoping the lake would catch her, save her, hold her, and return her refreshed to the shore. It did not.”
― Sheila Heti, Pure Colour