Lex > Lex's Quotes

“It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“I knew people were talking, but I wasn't listening. I wasn't interested in anything anyone had to say.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“I'm tired of people thinking they're doing me favours.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“If you ever manage to become perfect, you have to die instantly before you ruin things for everyone else.”
― Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

“Quitting’s not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy.”
“Really? Was that how you quit me?”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.”
― Jojo Moyes, Me Before You

“Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
― Nora Ephron

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“I like books. I thought you liked books."

"Let's be honest, Rudy, books are pornography for brains. All that subtext and bullshit and hidden imagery.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, Teeth

“The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world. You're part of this cosmic community of people who've thought about this thing, whatever it happens to be.”
― Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up

“You'll cry tonight. In bed. That's when it'll hurt the most. When you're alone.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“I realized she wanted many things at the same time, and that kept her in a permanent state of dissatisfaction.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

“Of an artistic temperament, I deny that I am; yet I must possess something of the artist's faculty of making the most of present pleasure.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette