T Quotes
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“There are things I believe in to a certain extent, as much as a scientist would. And I like, through the means of entertainment, to explore those ideas.”
“There are things I can confess only after swallowing a bottle of ink. How i crushed a moth between my palms before it rushed to the fireplace. These hands that are used to killing things midflight. Like my mother tongue. Before I can roll out my rounded R and O. Because women like me are believed to practise witchcraft and blackmagic. We swallow men and spit out their bones. These hands that danced with your ghosts on the bluest 4 AMs. These hands that raised a knife to its throat. How deep was the longing to be nothing more than an empty bed, an empty room. If someone asks you tell them writing was the closest I came to witchcraft. Poetry was the closest I came to being possessed. I wanted to leave behind more than emptiness so I wrote.
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They say it takes 7 seconds for the eyes to become accustomed to the darkness. I glide across the dark room like the light was never here. Your body imprint on the mattress lost to the frenzied waltz of sunray and dust. How easy was it to just grab a handful of you before you dissolved. If someone asks tell them loving you was the closest I came to seeing god.
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On some nights I open the curtains and you are the moon. I am the darkness surrounding it. Which is to say I don't know how to love without being consumed. If they ask you tell them remembrance was the closest I came to being sick.
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Once I met a homeless man who spoke in madness because he had forgotten his mother tongue. How long do you hide yourself from the world before you forget your beginning. Like him - I too am full of silence. My beloved - a handful of you, your body. There are things I could only tell the moths but they no longer visit. I have put off the fireplace. Which is to say they too don't know how to love something that won't kill them.
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My phone always autocorrects I love you to I live you and what is love if not living the other person. One summer afternoon our bodies turned into each other's. Your breath played lye strings on my neck. If they ask you tell them that was the closest I came to being alive.”
Source: 4 AM Conversations
“There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.”
“There are things I cannot say.”
“There are things I could say. But I don't.”
“There are things I don't like, like sitting at the head of the class. It makes me uncomfortable. I'll do it in a seminar if I have to, but with a workshop, I try to put myself in the circle somewhere. Because that hopefully frees up some people by making somebody else sit at the nominal head of the table.”
“There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.”
“There are things I like, there are things I strongly dislike. In my DJ sets and in my production I just gravitate towards what I like.”
“There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel
“There are things I photograph because I'm interested in those things.”
“There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment and the moment you get into particular cases there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.”
“There are things I want to do to be a better human being and a better father.”
“There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.”
“There are things I want which you know nothing of. I do have my own dreams.”
Source: Daughter of the Moon Goddess
“There are things I will not say. Things that are buried away. I've excavated some for those who have been stung by these frightful pains. So they too will know there is sunshine after the rain.”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“There are things I've always wanted to do. Things I may not be able to do, but I never really ruled them out - like running a marathon. It's all a matter of timing for me. I suppose I could probably do it if I planned it out right with medication. I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.”
“There are things I've done in the past I'm not proud of - and I could talk about them if I wanted to - but I don't reveal my secrets... I prefer certain things to remain personal; there have to be boundaries. And I don't think you need a scandal to have an interesting story.”
“There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".”
“There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.”
“There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.”
“There are things in life that I enjoyed before music, so I'm just taking advantage of those things now that I can.”
“There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.”
Source: Any human heart: a novel
“There are things in my life that are hard to reconcile, like divorce. Sometimes it is very difficult to make sense of how it could possibly happen. Laying blame is so easy. I don’t have time for hate or negativity in my life. There’s no room for it.”
“There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.”
Source: Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina
“There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And that comes out of a variety of reasons, but fundamentally comes out of how that particular experience connects with your effective systems of response.”
“There are things in Russia which are not as they seem.”
“There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.”
“There are things in the human mind that are not meant to be seen or touched, things seldom even acknowledged by our conscious selves. Fantasies, impulses, rages, hatreds, primitive instincts. They're buried deep, usually, and that's where they belong.”
Source: Stealing Shadows: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel
“There are things in the Old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible Word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
“There are things in this life that you must face alone. Birth is one of them-death is another.”
Source: The Council
“There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.”
Source: Snow Falling on Cedars
“There are things in this world that have no explanation. When you come across these things, you have two options. Option one is to try to make things make sense. This is what most people do. They experience something and they try to mold the event to their experiences, to understand what happened using the filter of what they already know. This never works. It only leads to confusion and frustration, yes? The second option is to accept that strange things happen, that the impossible sometimes is real. When you accept it, you can move on with your life. Our ancestors invented gods for this reason and they were happier because of it.”
Source: The Devil Takes You Home
“There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch.”
Source: The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
“There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.”
“There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.”
“There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
Source: Letters from Joe
“There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.”
“There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.”
Source: Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's
“There are things more easily done if you get up earlier.”
“There are things moving in the garden now that will find your flesh as tasty as I find it lovely.”
Source: Fall of Ruin and Wrath
“There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.”
Source: Skeleton Crew
“There are things one does not learn simply by being told.”
Source: Descendants of the First
“There are things one does not say for a long time, but, once they are said, one never stops repeating them.”
Source: Adolphe [translated from the French by
“There are things one must do for oneself.”
“There are things one reads that make you aware that you have lived nothing, felt nothing, experienced nothing up to that time.”
“There are things our souls want, and mine wants you.”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
“There are things people actually believe said Andre, and things they only pretend to believe because it's convenient. But over time it don't matter which is which, it all just blurs together.”
Source: Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick
“There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.”
“There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.”
“There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.”
Source: Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez