Quotes - Beth Beth (bethbeth75) (Clermont, FL) Showing 1-22 of 22

#1

“Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

tags: answers-to-despair, experience, finding-hope, hardship, hollowness, learning, lessons, life, life-discovery, life-lessons, recovery

863 likes

#2

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

109385 likes

#3

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

tags: life

8369 likes

#4

“It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

tags: falling-apart, giving-in

11839 likes

#5

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”
― Elie Wiesel

120 likes

#6

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: inspirational, love

76619 likes

#7

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
― Herman Hesse

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#8

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”
― Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

tags: einstein, gaiman, god, humor

2652 likes

#9

“Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.”
― P.D. James, Innocent Blood

tags: healing, pain

271 likes

#10

“Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.”
― Billy Corgan

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#11

“A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.”
― Scott Lynch, The Republic of Thieves

tags: bitterness, truth, women

347 likes

#12

“When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.”
― Stephen King, Joyland

tags: past

438 likes

#13

“If you’re trying to avoid loss, there’s no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends.”
― Leah Raeder, Unteachable

9 likes

#14

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92278 likes

#15

“It was like when you had been unhappy and didn't know it until you weren't anymore.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

tags: cole-st-clair

46 likes

#16

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

1859 likes

#17

“The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord."
Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one.”
― Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

tags: funny, gender-stereotypes, men-and-women

785 likes

#18

“How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked.

Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the following,’ and then wait for people to sign up.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

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#19

“We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.”
― Douglas Preston, The Monster of Florence

tags: evil, monster

1758 likes

#20

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park

tags: art, love

9009 likes

#21

“A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

tags: self

2000 likes

#22

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: inspirational, life, meaning

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