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"A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find..."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:34:47 -0500

““A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.””

- E.B. White

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star,’ I said. ‘It’s dazzling, but the..."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:31:53 -0500

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star,’ I said. ‘It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the star doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”

- Haruki Murakami

"When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no..."

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:49:25 -0500

““When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside - that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can’t. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it’s just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn’t do a damn thing to fix anything.””

- Chase Brooks

"I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you..."

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:48:01 -0600

““I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.””

- Joanne Harris

"That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:55:39 -0600

““That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.””

- John Green, Looking For Alaska

"I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at..."

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 22:14:52 -0600

““I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.””

- Marilyn Monroe

"Do you ever think about all the people who you might have fallen in love with if only you’d taken a..."

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:09:05 -0600

“Do you ever think about all the people who you might have fallen in love with if only you’d taken a different way home or stood a little longer in the bread aisle at the supermarket? All the people who might have been an integral part of your life but instead you’ll never know them. The unimaginable impact that our mundane choices have on our lives really gets to me. Think of how many times I might have died if I’d made different choices. Maybe I’d be homeless. Maybe I’d be famous. Maybe I’d be rich. Sometimes I’m so overwhelmed by the impact of my choices that I can’t choose anything at all because I’m afraid today will be the day that I make the choice that changes everything.”

- Unknown

"I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And..."

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 21:56:51 -0600

““I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And there’s a lot of difference.””

- Ernest Hemingway

"I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I..."

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:50:18 -0600

““I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it’s the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.””

- Henry Rollins

"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want..."

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 11:20:57 -0600

““But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.””

- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

"I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she..."

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:38:04 -0600

““I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they’ll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. And then she stopped walking. Under the moon, she stopped. And looked at us. She looked at me. Maybe she was trying to tell me something; I don’t know. She probably didn’t even know I was there. But I’ll always love her. All my life.””

- Neil Gaiman

"I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our..."

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 10:56:09 -0600

““I crush her against me. I want to be part of her. Not just inside her but all around her. I want our rib cages to crack open and our hearts to migrate and merge. I want our cells to braid together like living thread.””

- Isaac Marion

"This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the..."

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:38:52 -0600

““This is what happiness is, past the rubbish of its overuse as a word, past the cracked gloss of the letters that mean nothing when strung together. They mean something now, and I know what it’s like when you and someone else are right together. How simple it is, and how amazing.””

- Elizabeth Scott

"I have noticed that if you look carefully at people’s eyes the first five seconds they look at you,..."

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:21:51 -0600

““I have noticed that if you look carefully at people’s eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.””

- Sue Monk Kidd

"I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This..."

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:48:25 -0600

““I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?””

- Voltaire

"You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got..."

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:47:18 -0600

““You can’t force love, I realized. It’s there or it isn’t. If it’s not there, you’ve got to be able to admit it. If it is there, you’ve got to do whatever it takes to protect the ones you love.””

- Richelle Mead

"I’m in love with you because you make me feel safe. It sounds corny and vague. People always talk..."

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 01:31:48 -0600

““I’m in love with you because you make me feel safe. It sounds corny and vague. People always talk about feeling safe with someone and you wonder what it even means. I still don’t really know. All I know is that when I’m with you, I feel like I’m clutching a giant thing of pepper spray or reliving a moment of being carried to bed by my parents when I was five years old and fell asleep in front of the television. All day long, I can feel fragile, like a raw nerve, and when I come home to you, it’s like I just put on the thickest winter coat and installed bulletproof windows in my apartment. ‘Honey, I’m home…and no longer terrified.’”

- Ryan O’Connell

"I felt like crying, but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you..."

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 23:14:16 -0600

““I felt like crying, but nothing came out. It was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”

- Charles Bukowski

"He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply..."

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:12:25 -0600

““He kissed her. Without warning, without permission. Without even deciding to do it, but simply because he couldn’t have done anything else. He needed that breath she was holding. It belonged to him, and he wanted it back.””

- Tessa Dare

"It’s not a journey — every journey ends, but we go on. The world turns and we turn with it. Plans..."

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:04:42 -0500

““It’s not a journey — every journey ends, but we go on. The world turns and we turn with it. Plans disappear; dreams take over. But wherever I go, there you are. My luck, my fate, my fortune. Inevitable.””

- Brad Pitt