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"I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine."
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"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."
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Personal Development

"Anguish heart attack is tightly packed on to people with actions full of emotions and personal tragedies yet they can overcome it with personal self esteem and nice thinking."
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Personal Development

"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."
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Personal Development

"There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present."
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"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."
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Personal Development

"I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop."
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Personal Development

"Strong thoughts are accompanied by great emotions."
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Personal Development

"It's not because I don't want to hurt Delia's feelings. It's because when she is bruised, I'm the one who aches."
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"I was tired of her getting away with being so young."
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"I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him."
Love

"Do the other kids make fun of you? For how you talk?''Sometimes.''So why don't you do something about it? You could learn to talk differently, you know.'But this is my voice. How would you be able to tell when I was talking?"
Identity

"Of course. That's what people do in a disordered world, a world of freedom and choice: they leave when they want. They disappear, they come back, they leave again. And you are left to pick up the pieces on your own."
Freedom

"In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever."
Dream

"Could it be? Samantha Kingston? Home? On a Friday? I roll my eyes. "I don't know. Did you do a lot of acid in the sixties? Could be a flashback. "I was two years old in 1960. I came too late for the party. He leans down and pecks me on the head. I pull away out of habit. "And I'm not even going to ask how you know about acid flashbacks. "What's an acid flashback? Izzy crows. "Nothing, my dad and I say at the same time, and he smiles at me."
Family

"No guest rooms. I shake my head resolutely. "I want to be in a room room. A lived-in room."
Home

"You can't cheat if there are no rules."
Morality

"Look, I'm not going to have sex with him just so he'll say that he loves me, you know?"...That isn't why I was planning to have sex with Rob - to hear the words, I mean. I just wanted to get it over with. I think. Actually, I'm not sure why it seemed so important."
Desire

"How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?"
Philosophy

"If they really want us to be happy, they'd let us pick ourselves."
Happiness
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