”The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.”
-Chuck Palahniuk
“It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself.”
“When faced with two choices, simply flip a coin. It works not because it settles the question for you, but because, in that brief moment when the coin is in the air, you suddenly know what you’re hoping for.”
“Maybe your first love is the one that sticks with you because it’s the only person who will always receive all of you. After that, you learn better. But most of all, no matter what, a piece of you forever remains left behind in the heart of the one you loved - a piece no future lover could ever get. That piece holds innocence, the belief that love really can last forever. It holds both friendship and pain, trial and error, that one kiss you’ll never get back. It holds youth and everything you thought love would be. Everything that was proven wrong”
”It’s not that I believe everything happens for a reason,” she said. ”It’s just that… I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It’s the universe’s way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It’s how life is.”
-Sarah Dessen: The Truth About Forever
“Judging a person does not define who they are, it defines who you are.”
-Adele
“It’s like this: You have to have the nicest jeans, or the cutest purse, or say the newest thing so that it catches on. You have to be skinny, you have to buy this, wear this, say that, be on his side, her side, be neutral, have white teeth, have straight teeth, your hair can’t be frizzy, and you can’t wear that because it just doesn’t ‘work’ anymore. You have to go to parties, be friends with everyone, trust no one, pose like this, smile like that, tilt your head this way, and put your hand on your hip, because that’s how it is. And let me just say, fuck all of that.”
“When you are attracted to people, it’s because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.”
- Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
“I think there was a mistake made in the universe, and I was accidentally born into a human body… because I want to be everywhere, all the time, and linger in the air. I think I should have been born a concept, like a feeling. Something bittersweet; the kind of feeling that you get when you listen to a folk song about loneliness, and it makes you feel less alone. Or the sweet melancholy of acceptance you feel when you find out that the one you love is happy with someone else. But you smile. You smile when you think about other people’s happiness. And their happiness makes you happier in a way, even though you’re sad. That’s the feeling I was meant to be.”
“Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and I’m yours forever.”
“Kiss her. Notice her words. Her mouth, her head, her body, her skin, her eyes, her heart.”
“Grown ups love figures. Whenever you tell them that you have made a new friend, they never ask you any questions about the essentials. They never ask, “What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies?” Instead, they demand: “How old is he? How many brothers has he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make?” Only from these figure do they think they have learned anything about him.”
- Antione de Saint-Exupery
‘“Shhhh,” she said. “I’m sleeping.” Just like that. From a hundred miles an hour to asleep in a nanosecond. I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
-John Green, Searching For Alaska
“I’m cynical and skeptical and I don’t really think two people can spend an extended period of time together being happy… But at the same time I dream of meeting someone who makes me think otherwise. I’m doubtful I’ll ever find them, but if they are out there I want to meet the one who proves me wrong. So it that possible? To be somewhat hopeful, secretly romantic, cynic?”
“We mistake sex for romance. Guys are taught that pushing a girl up against a wall is romance. Sex is easy; you can do it with anyone, yourself, with batteries. Romance is when someone you like walks into a room and they take your breath away. Romance is when two people are dancing and they fit together perfectly. Romance is when two people are walking next to each other and all of a sudden they find themselves holding hands, and they don’t know how that happened.”—John C. Moffi
“There are two people you’ll meet in your life. One will run a finger down the index of who you are and jump straight to the parts of you that peak their interest. The other will take his or her time reading through every one of your chapters and maybe fold corners of you that inspired them most. You will meet these two people; it is a given. It is the third that you’ll never see coming. That one person who not only finishes your sentences, but keeps the book.” - inatoms
“We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because that’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something DESPITE. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.” - The Wise Man’s Fear, Patrick Rothfuss
