February 2012
“There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it...”
– Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir Of Anorexia And Bulimia
“Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the...”
– Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all...”
– Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
“The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has...”
– Robert Frost, “Snowfall” (via proustitute)
“Do not confuse “duty” with what other people expect of you; they are...”
– Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
“How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes,...”
– Paul Sweeney
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was:...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women
“Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“You can’t quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on...”
– Emily Giffin, Baby Proof
“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire...”
– Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
– C.S. Lewis, The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays
“The world rests in the night. Trees, mountains, fields, and faces are released...”
– John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“The human language, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still...”
– Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain
“People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations”
:))”
– Graham Greene
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In...”
– Graham Greene, The End of the Affair
“The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.”
– Delos Banning McKown
“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you’re...”
– Julia Gregson, East of the Sun
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it...”
– Richard Bach, Illusions
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“No” is a complete sentence.”
– Anne Lamott
“Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
Person: Do you speak Hindu?
Me: Only if you speak Catholic and my friend speaks Muslim
“You should not confuse your career with your life.”
– Dave Barry
“If he needs a million acres to make him feel rich, seems to me he needs it...”
– John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
