I am that mysterious stranger who I hope to meet.
—Jenny Slate, Little Weirds
Quotes
It is the bad that teaches you, makes you think; good takes care of itself and only gets better.
—Joan Rivers, Enter Talking
Never let anyone make you feel ordinary.
—Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
—Stephen King, Different Seasons
Song
by T. S. Eliot
If space and time, as sages say,
Are things which cannot be,
The fly that lives a single day
Has lived as long as we.
But let us live while yet we may,
While love and life are free,
For time is time, and runs away,
Though sages disagree.
The flowers I sent thee when the dew
Was trembling on the vine,
Were withered ere the wild bee flew
To suck the eglantine.
But let us haste to pluck anew
Nor mourn to see them pine,
And though the flowers of love be few
Yet let them be divine.
But his dreams were as gigantic as his surroundings were small.
—Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
A grown woman is like a coyote—she can get by on very little. Men are more like house cats. Leave them alone for too long and they’ll die of sadness.
—Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
46
by e e cummings
never could anyone
who simply lives to die
dream that your valentine
makes happier me than i
but always everything
which only dies to grow
can guess and as for spring
she’ll be the first to know
Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
—Veronica Roth, Insurgent
We are survivors, of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.
—Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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