“it took me years to realize that every piece of treasure he ever gave me was trash.”
Source: The Hawthorne Legacy
“Your jokes aren't even funny. What is this thing, anyway?'
'That's the beauty of it!' Oliver crows. 'It's nothing‒just some piece of junk from he supply closet. But you're freaking out because it could be anything.'
'Which it isn't,' I remind him.
'Exactly! The nothing becomes something because of how you react to it!”
Source: The Superteacher Project
“It was reckless without hardihood, greedy without audacity, and cruel without courage.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“The doorways into hell are mostly inside the mind.”
Source: Xyz
“I'm not giving up," said Aru, closing her eyes. "I'm letting go.”
Source: Aru Shah and the City of Gold
“I truthfully feel none of us have anyone to blame for whatever we have done with our own personal lives. It has been proven that at the age of 7 most of us have reached the age of reason—which means we do, at this age, understand & know the difference between right & wrong.”
Source: In Cold Blood
“Even if my seams can be broken, that doesn't mean I will be.”
Source: Long Live the Pumpkin Queen
“Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep”
Source: The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories
“because we were looking at the same sky together, which is maybe more intimate than eye contact anyway. Anybody can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world as you see.”
Source: Turtles All the Way Down
“There is something about seeing someone from behind, something about the way people walk away, that I've found unnervingly intimate. Maybe it's because the back of the body isn't on guard the way the front is-the slouch of the shoulders and the flex in the back muscles, that's the most honest you'll ever see a person.”
Source: Luckiest Girl Alive