L.M. du Preez > L.M.'s Quotes

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there's still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”
― Dita Von Teese

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction--every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”
― Jim Morrison

“Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.”
― James Joyce

“I wanted to say something profound, that Julian was only human, that he was old, that flesh and blood are frail and weak and that there comes a time when we have to transcend our teachers.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“I’m sure he knows, and this mutual knowledge of the other’s secrets seems oddly intimate suddenly, and I feel like I should go.”
― Seraphina Nova Glass, On a Quiet Street

“It feels like a half-life already, and he’s only just gone.”
― Clare Swatman, Before You Go

“He’s meant everything to me and the truth is, the thought of carrying on in a world without him feels like walking across a vast, open desert with no sign of water. It feels like a half-life already, and he’s only just gone. And I know everyone says that time heals, but I don’t think I want it to. I don’t want the memory of him, of what we had together, to fade. I want to hold it in my mind forever, to keep me going through the dark days I know are going to come.”
― Clare Swatman, Before You Go

“I’ve loved him and hated him intensely; I’ve held him and comforted him and fought with him and lost him and grieved for him, and with all that in my mind, how am I supposed to get through this? I have no idea.”
― Clare Swatman, Before You Go

“Her eyes were so blue they could spark a wildfire.”
― Miel MacRae, The Stories We Don't Tell

“The words weren't scratches of ink on paper; they were souvenirs of Emma's character.”
― Miel MacRae, The Stories We Don't Tell