Lara > Lara's Quotes

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

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

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“The things you used to own, now they own you.”
― 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

“Nabokov n’a jamais évoqué ce qui pouvait bien se passer dans la tête de Lo lorsqu’elle s’est assise sur Humbert Humbert ce pâle petit matin d’été. Ni pourquoi, quelques pages plus tôt, elle sautait sur ses genoux en maltraitant sa pomme, culotte aux quatre vents, gazouillant à l’envi pendant que son coupable adorateur tentait de contenir discrètement une effusion quasi adolescente. C’est cette lecture parallèle qui m’a manqué, l’impossibilité de savoir ce qu’il serait advenu de l’histoire si on y avait laissé parler Lolita.”
― Emma Becker, Monsieur

“She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Sweet dreams and thin walls... Mother of Pearl. He'd heard me.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“And Caroline? Speaking fo thin walls?" he said, as he opened his door and looked back at me. He leaned in his own doorway, thumping his fist on the wall.
"Yes?" I asked a little too dreamily for my own good.
His smirk reappeared and he said, "Sweet dreams".
He thumped the wall one more time, winked, and went inside.
Huh. Sweet dreams and thin walls. Sweet dreams and thin walls...
Mother of pearl. He'd heard me...”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Of course the girl who meows when she has an orgasm is afraid of cats.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“One last thump, one last groan—and one last meow. Then all was blessedly silent. Except for Clive. He continued to pine for his lost love until four mother-loving a.m. The cold war was back on…”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“I gave Clive a sock full of catnip and a bowlful of tuna. My hope was to get him wasted and passed out before the action started. The treats had the opposite effect. My boy was ready to party down when the first strains of Purina came shrieking through the walls about one fifteen in the morning. If Clive could have put on a mini smoking jacket, he would have. He stalked the room, pacing back and forth in front of the wall, playing it cool. When Purina began her meows, though, he couldn’t contain himself. He once again launched toward the wall. He jumped from nightstand to dresser to shelf, scaling pillows and even a lamp to get closer to his beloved. When he realized he would never be able to burrow under the plaster, he serenaded her with some weird kind of kitty Barry White, his yowls matching hers in intensity.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“I don’t care how old you are, or what background you come from, there are two universal truths. We will always laugh at…gas if it happens at the wrong time, and we are always curious about what goes on in other people’s bedrooms.”
― Alice Clayton, Wallbanger

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“I don't want to die without any scars.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I dreamt of your legs that night. I dreamt they were wrapped around my back while I f**ked your brains out.”
― Samantha Young, Before Jamaica Lane

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.”
― Gloria Steinem, Marilyn

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“As novelist Margaret Atwood wrote to explain women’s absence from quest-for-identity novels, “there’s probably a simple reason for this: send a woman out alone on a rambling nocturnal quest and she’s likely to end up a lot deader a lot sooner than a man would.”3 The irony here is that thanks to molecular archaeology—which includes the study of ancient DNA to trace human movement over time—we now know that men have been the stay-at-homes, and women have been the travelers. The rate of intercontinental migration for women is about eight times that for men.4”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“Even the dictionary defines adventurer as “a person who has, enjoys, or seeks adventures,” but adventuress is “a woman who uses unscrupulous means in order to gain wealth or social position.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

“We might have known sooner that the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.”
― Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road