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#1

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

4684 likes

#2

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

12468 likes

#3

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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#5

“I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of my needs. I chose wrong... in the past. I thought I had to find someone who could put up with my hunger for life. But I was so damn wrong. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who would admire all the things about me that tepid men were intimidated by.”
― Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths

tags: love, man, poetry, relationships, strengths, viking

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#6

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt

tags: sun-drenched, travel

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#7

“I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.”
― Mark Obmascik, Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High

tags: 14ers, climbing, colorado, mountaineering, mountains

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#8

“Men are always complaining about how difficult it is to understand women but I think it is the other way round. Men clan up and do not express what they feel. Then they suddenly stop all communication with you and vanish. All you can do is wait. I wish men came with instruction manual.”
― Preeti Shenoy, The One You Cannot Have

tags: complicated, frustration, men, missing-you

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#9

“You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.”
― Tom Hiddleston

tags: dreams, goals, life, mountain, path, perseverance, persistence, tom-hiddleston

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#10

“A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind.
It was now deep autumn in the mountains.”
― Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir

tags: cold-wind, fall, mountains, red-leaf

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#11

“I never realized how empty my life had really become until I had him in it. He did that to me. He said I wrecked him, but he completely destroyed me. Everything was fine when I was alone. When I didn’t have to feel or think or care about someone else. Sure I was sad and broken, but I was okay. Now, I’m anything but.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

tags: broken-heart, crow, destroyed, love, mafia

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#12

“Nobody has ever looked at me the way he’s looking at me at this moment. Like I’m his possession. Like if anyone else were to touch me, he’d break both their legs and an arm for good measure.”
― A. Zavarelli, Crow

tags: attraction, crow, love, mafia-romance, possession

24 likes

#13

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking

4213 likes

#14

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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#15

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: attributed-no-source, writing

4216 likes

#16

“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: truth, writing, writing-advice

4178 likes

#17

“Maybe...you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

tags: infatuation, love

3942 likes

#18

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

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#19

“If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: forgetting, hope, love, pain, suffering, waiting

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#20

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

tags: waiting, you

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#21

“I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.”
― Ally Condie, Matched

tags: heart, hunger, hurt, pain, waiting, wish

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#22

“I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you."

Her face is buried in my neck. She nods.

"I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.”
― Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four

tags: love, waiting

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#23

“Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another person is looking for. Two people searching together are always better than one person alone.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: answers, commond-ground, found, friendship, holding-on, lost, love, questions, seeking, waiting

185 likes

#24

“I want no blood from you--not until we're both sweaty and naked and you're screaming my name.”
― Nalini Singh, Angels' Pawn

tags: blood, name, seduction, sweaty, waiting

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#25

“waiting
in a life full of little stories
for a death to come”
― Charles Bukowski, Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

tags: death, intro, life, micropoem, stories, waiting

14 likes

#26

“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”
― Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories

tags: the-company-of-wolves, wolf, wolves

160 likes

#27

“Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet.
If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: authentic, free-spirit, freedom, growth, gypsy, gypsy-girl, inner-being, master, peace, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, wild, wild-and-free, wild-woman, wild-women, zen

288 likes

#28

“She has fought many wars, most internal. The ones that you battle alone, for this, she is remarkable. She is a survivor.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: chronic-illness, courage, free-spirit, inner-strength, inspirational, inspire, life-path, mindful, strength, strength-of-character, strong-woman, strong-women, untameable, wild, wild-and-free, wild-woman, wild-women, woman, women

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#29

“You can love her with everything you have and she still wont belong to you. She will run wild with you, beside you with everystep but let me tell you something about women who run with wolves, their fierce hearts dont settle between walls and their instinct is stronger than upbringing. Love her wild or leave her there.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: free-spirit, freedom, gypsy, instinct, leader, run-with-wolves, soul, strength, strong-women, wild, wild-heart, wild-soul, wild-woman, wild-women, wolf-quotes, woman-and-wolf

174 likes

#30

“I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

tags: grab-it, hunt, life

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#31

“We live and breathe among the selfish people of the cruel world; time has taught me, neither expect nor wait; stand firm, and never depend on others since each one of us hunts only its hunt.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

tags: hunt

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