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#1

“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it alone.”
― John Cheever

tags: readers-and-writers

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#2

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: desire, fear, human-nature

2706 likes

#3

“You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

tags: humor

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#4

“You're ten years old now, you have to take a shower every day...I don't give a shit if you hate it. People hate smelly fuckers. I will not have a smelly fucker for a son.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

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#5

“The dog is not bored. It's not like he's waiting for me to give him a fucking Rubik's Cube. He's a goddamned dog.”
― Justin Halpern

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#6

“The baby will talk when he talks, relax. It ain't like he knows the cure for cancer and just ain't spitting it out.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

tags: babies, relativity

124 likes

#7

“On Telemarketer Phone Calls
“Hello?…Fuck you.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

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#8

“You go ahead. I'd rather not be shot out of a tube into a pool filled with a bunch of nine-year-olds' urine.”
― Justin Halpern, Sh*t My Dad Says

tags: swimming-pools, urine

32 likes

#9

“You are four years old. You have to shit in the toilet. This is not one of those negotiations where we’ll go back and forth and find a middle ground. This ends with you shitting in a toilet.”
― Justin Halpern

23 likes

#10

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow, Herzog

tags: life

2111 likes

#11

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
― William Styron, Conversations with William Styron

13161 likes

#12

“For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moon.”
― W.B. Yeats, Selected Poems and Four Plays

1651 likes

#13

“I never change, I simply become more myself.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice

4085 likes

#14

“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Iris Murdoch, Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature

tags: love, realization

1823 likes

#15

“To douchebags!" he said, gesturing to Brad. "And to girls that break your heart," he bowed his head to me. His eyes lost focus. "And to the absolute fucking horror of losing your best friend because you were stupid enough to fall in love with her.”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

tags: best-friends, heartbreak, love

6339 likes

#16

“A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

3248 likes

#17

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

4102 likes

#18

“You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.”
― Nicole Richie

tags: life

133 likes

#19

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

tags: adventure

1441 likes

#20

“You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.”
― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

2628 likes

#21

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81806 likes

#22

“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: reading, words, writing

5375 likes

#23

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16156 likes

#24

“Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.”
― Paulo Coelho

886 likes

#25

“The key to change is letting go of the fear.”
― Pittacus Lore, The Power of Six

368 likes

#26

“F#%k all the firsts, Sky. The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

1651 likes

#27

“Holder: "I thought Mormon's weren't allowed to have caffeine?"
Breckin: "I decided to break that rule the morning I woke up gay.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

473 likes

#28

“You probably faked passing out the other day, just so you could be carried in my hot, sweaty, manly arms.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

tags: holder, sky

282 likes

#29

“I don't care who the student is, teachers should never be condescending. That should be the first rule in the teacher handbook.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

tags: student, teachers

69 likes

#30

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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