Quotes I love
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
Julio Cortazar
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, and dignity.
Max de Pree
I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
Lucy Maude MontgomeryAnne of Green Gables
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion
Paolo Coehlo
I know most families don’t celebrate every new moon or every solstice and equinox, but maybe they should.
Annie HartnettRabbit Cake
No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever.
Adriana TrigianiBig Stone Gap
I really enjoy the ebb and flow of consuming and creating, and think it's unhealthy to go too far in either direction. Consuming too much media makes me feel stagnant, and excessive creative output makes me feel depleted and exhausted. Balance is always the key, isn't it?
Cosmic SpectrumPrism
When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
Muriel BarberyThe Elegance of the Hedgehog
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep on humming all day until you spread it to someone else. Jokes. Urban legends. Crackpot religions. Marxism. No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.
Neal StephensonSnow Crash
Pain linked to pain, fragility to fragility. There is no silence without a cry of grief, no forgiveness without bloodshed, no acceptance without a passage through acute loss. That is what lies at the root of true harmony.
Haruki MurakamiColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Life is simple. The more complicated you believe yours is, the less you know of your true condition. You are hungry or you are full. You are healthy or you are sick. You are faithful to your wife or you are not. You are alive or you are dead. Complexity offers refuge from choice, and thus from action. In most situations, most of us would prefer to do nothing. Sic transit gloria mundi.
Greg IlesMortal Fear
I’d figured out by now that death never makes sense, no matter how someone dies: murder, accident, old age, cancer, suicide, you’re never ready to lose someone you love. I decided death will always feel unexplained; we will never be ready for it, and you just have to do the best you can with what you have left.
Annie HartnettRabbit Cake
Music doesn’t get in. Music is already in. Music simply uncovers what is there, makes you feel emotions that you didn’t necessarily know you had inside you, and runs around waking them all up. A rebirth of sorts.
Matt HaigHow to Stop Time
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings.
Ursula K. Le Guin
He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.
Jules VerneAround the World in 80 Days
A backstage pass is a myth when it comes to human relationships; we can never really know another person because we rarely know ourselves.
Alice FeeneyDaisy Darker
Maybe this was what it felt like to be human and normal, if such a thing as "normal" existed, even among humans. Was this a life she would have wanted? So impossible to judge. The world was a series of fenced-off fields, each patch of grass categorically greener than its neighbors.
Sunyi DeanThe Book Eaters
Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he’s not there, you feel like an addict who can’t get a fix.
Paolo CoehloBy the River Piedra I sat Down and Wept
Sharing things is how things get started, and not sharing things is how they end.
Rachel KhongGoodbye, Vitamin
...a daughter should not have to beg her father for a relationship...
Rupi KaurMilk and Honey
The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of. So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me. Finally I understood why my family had tried so hard to fix me.
Sayaka MurataConvenience Store Woman
Where does the love go when someone dies? Their last breath disappears into the atmosphere, their body gets buried in the ground, but where does the love go? If love is real, it must go somewhere.
Alice FeeneyDaisy Darker
Men entered into me through my roots like nutrients dissolved in potting soil. Every time I got together with someone new, I got replanted, and the nutrients from the old soil disappeared without a trace.
Yukiko MontoyaThe Lonesome Bodybuilder
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Christopher NolanThe Dark Knight