- “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” ― Albert Camus
- “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
- “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer
- “You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?” ― Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
- “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- “Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.” ― Clare Boothe Luce
- “You say you're 'depressed' - all I see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- “(...) when if you are anybody, which you are no doubt not, you should not be bored, but should be able to think, accept, affirm - and not retreat into a masochistic mental hell where jealousy and fear make you want to stop eating - don't ignore all the people you could know, shutting yourself up & don't spend years gaping in horror at the one time in your life you'll have a chance to prove your own discipline.” pg 403 ― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- “Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.” ― Ray Bradbury
- “But what’s crazy and what’s sane when everything is possible and yet nothing ever happens?” ― A.S. King, Reality Boy
- “It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.” ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
- “And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
- “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
- “How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.” ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
- “It's not too bad when the sun's out, but the sun only comes out when it feels like coming out.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
- “Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone's thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone's claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was.” ― Ian McEwan, Atonement
- “I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
- “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
- “Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” ― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone
- “Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?” ― Janice Lee, Daughter
- É esta a vantagem da ambição: podes não chegar à lua, mas tiraste os pés do chão.
sep 24 2013 ∞
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