random quotes

“Today is the kind of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”

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“Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” (Diary)

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“Rant used to say, “Life’s greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.” (Rant)

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“‘When you understand,’ Brandy says, ‘that what you’re telling is just a story. It isn’t happening anymore. When you realize the story you’re telling is just words, when you can just crumble it up and throw your past in the trashcan,’ Brandy says, ‘then we’ll figure out who you’re going to be.’” (Invisible Monsters)

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“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

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“Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up.”

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“Almost all the time, you tell yourself you’re loving somebody when you’re just using them. This only looks like love.”

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“Fuck me. I’m so tired of being me. Me beautiful. Me ugly. Blonde. Brunette. A million fucking fashion makeovers that only leave me trapped being me. Who I was before the accident is just a story now. Everything before now, before now, before now, is just a story I carry around. I guess that would apply to anybody in the world. What I need is a new story about who I am. What I need to do is fuck up so bad I can’t save myself.”

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“‘It’s pathetic,’ Paige says, ‘how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How if we can’t explain something we’ll just deny it.’” (Choke)

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“Really, this whole world is nothing but assholes.” (Lullaby)

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“Just for the record, she still loves you. She wouldn’t bother to torture you if she didn’t.” (Diary)

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“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.” (Diary)

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“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.” (Rant)

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind.”

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“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.”

“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow. I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights. I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life. I’ve learned that making a “living” is not the same thing as making a “life.” I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one. I’ve learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”

“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.” (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

“If you’re afraid of everyone leaving you, what do you do? You leave first, so you don’t have to watch them walk away.”

“A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying-to others and to yourself.”

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature." (Northanger Abbey)

“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a large unexpected cheque in the post, to beat finding yourself at large in a foreign city on a fair spring evening, loafing along unfamiliar streets in the long shadows of a lazy sunset, pausing to gaze in shop windows or at some church or lovely square or tranquil stretch of quayside, hesitating at street corners to decide whether that cheerful and homy restaurant you will remember fondly for years is likely to lie down this street or that one? I just love it. I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.”

“Ela é estranha. Tem olhos hipnóticos. E a gente sente que ela não espera mais nada de nada nem de ninguém, que está absolutamente sozinha e numa altura tal que ninguém jamais conseguiria alcançá-la.”

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“Aquilo que é bom, e de verdade, e forte, e importante - coisa ou pessoa - na sua vida, isso não se perde.”

“The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.”

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“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”

“I’m not interested in trying to make depressing music for the sake of it. There’s a difference between depressing and real. You’re not necessarily depressed just because you don’t agree with the contrived happiness of tv culture. I was attracted to the dark side because I didn’t hear it on the radio. All I heard was false pop bullshit cult-of-the-winner crap and i reacted to that. But if I could come up with a joyous song like Smokey Robinson or Stevie Wonder, I’d be really happy.”

"There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So Never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never."

“I guess the hardest thing is having so much love for you and it somehow not being returned. I develop crushes all the time but that is just misdirected need for you. You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terribly.” (Holding The Man)

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”

“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no matter what.” (An Abundance of Katherines)