Reading! Quotes
I'll put you in a jar on my shelf for a cold, rainy day when I need you the most.
These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.
You're gone and you left me. My heart has dissipated. The only thing I can feel is the blood rushing through my veins and the strings that hold my fragile heart together.
You've left me with a kaleidoscope of broken smiles and shattered dreams.
You said this was only the beginning, I didn't realize that meant starting a new chapter without you as part of my story.
Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.
We'll meet again, but you're a lifetime away, and I need you now.
Sorrow is the violent smashing of reason, in that reason has no power over it.
The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country, his home, was that of the imagination.
Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.
I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.
Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.
The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.
Education is what you get from reading the small print
Sometimes, when I'm alone, I wonder if it really counts as being alone, since I am covered in millions of other living organisms.
He's unconventionally attractive and yet coincidentally everything I've ever wanted.
Being near you for a day was at the top of my bucket list of the greatest life achievements, so this has by far exceeded my expectations and everyday has been magic.
Women do not lie about their age. In fact, no woman ever has, its just that memory is the first thing to go.
As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.
Empathy is a special application of the imagination. The ability to imagine what it would be like to experience what someone else is experiencing can be crucial to moral sensitivity.
People who always arrive early aren't worth waiting for.
I want to take a trip to Shakespeare's brain and vacation there with his thoughts may be I also start writing about twisted love and betrayals.
It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.
One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that I have to want to do it. I've never been able to forge desire.
Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn’t want them to be first & best.
Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.
Word of advice - never ask a terrorist the question 'What would you do for a Klondike bar?'.
I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
...he spent whole days and nights over his books
My lifesaver has always been the hazel iris of your soul. It never fails. When the world plunges me deep into the darkness, one look from you is all it takes to save me.
Perhaps fate brought us together, And the incidents in between made us close, Falling in love was a simple choice, But breaking my heart, that was yours.
You must be able to say "I understand, " before you can say "I agree, " or "I disagree, " or "I suspend judgment.
He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him
Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice
Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.
I've had these demons for years, maybe for my whole life. Then you came along to provoke them, expose them, and eventually rid me of them, because I believe you're the only human that can.
Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.
Meekly swallowing and assimilating the customs of the more powerful has always been a strategy by which the less powerful have tried to fit in.
I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of anger one gets high on, the kind one takes home to show off to family and friends.
He said he loved more than any other women he's ever loved and I had a black eye to prove it.
You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.
My existence began the day you were created and was realized the day we met.
Son, my dad said, every man needs a bitter, resentful woman in his life. Because there's nothing more touching to a mother's heart than to know that her son thinks of her constantly.
