” I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe,
The Raven
” I think you're a dangerous, corrupt, lying piece of nine-day-old mosquito shit.
Hugh Laurie,
The Gun Seller
” We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another woman. And then another. Then they want to eat cornflakes and sleep for a while, and then they want to have sex with another woman, and another, until they die. Women,’ and I thought I’d better pick my words carefully when describing a gender I didn’t belong to, ‘want a relationship. They may not get it, or they may sleep with a lot of men before they do get it, but ultimately that’s what they want. That’s the goal. Men do not have goals. Natural ones. So they invent them, and put them at either end of a football pitch. And then they invent football. Or they pick fights, or try and get rich, or start wars, or come up with any number of daft bloody things to make up for the fact that they have no real goals.’
‘Bollocks,’ said Ronnie.
‘That, of course, is the other main difference.’
Hugh Laurie,
The Gun Seller
” Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.
Haruki Murakami,
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
” The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.
Haruki Murakami,
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
” Dobby shouted, 'You shall not harm Harry Potter!'
J.K. Rowling,
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
” "It's okay," he tells me. "If you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more that I've ever wanted anything in my life." His voice cracks with emotion. He stops, clears his troat, takes a breath, and continues. "But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting."
Gayle Forman,
If I Stay
” Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.
Gayle Forman,
If I Stay
” "If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too, I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay."
Gayle Forman,
If I Stay
” I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.
Gayle Forman,
If I Stay
” We aren't born for ourselves alone.
Kass Mrogan,
Day 21
” All I ever wanted was reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
Tahereh Mafi,
Shatter Me
” The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
” We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
” You are all the colours in one, at full brightness.
Jennifer Niven,
All the Bright Places
” The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, its what you leave.
Jennifer Niven,
All the Bright Places
” The problem with people is they forget that most of the time it's the small things that count.
Jennifer Niven,
All the Bright Places
” We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.
Jennifer Niven,
All the Bright Places
