- "Don't let yourself feel like there's nothing remaining; even if it's true" Unknown
- “They said, ‘Well, that’s foolish. You’ll never work, you’re not pretty enough, you’re not good enough,’ and I said, ‘You’re fired.’ Then my business manager said the same thing and I said, ‘You’re fired.’ I just fired everybody. Then I left my husband. You know, I was like, ‘Out, all of you.’ I couldn’t afford to have those voices near me that said, ‘You can’t do this, you’re not good enough,’ because I have too many voices inside of me that say that.” Sally Field
- “I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won't tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn't change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have.” Stephen Chbosky, in The Perks Of Being a Wallflower
- "The first step towards confidence is not being afraid to be ugly. Once you get over the fear of being unattractive and stop equating beauty with other good things in life (friends, love, happiness) it’s a lot easier to love yourself unconditionally. Your job is not to sit around and be pretty and easy on everyone else’s eyes, your job is to do whatever the fuck you want and look however the fuck you want while doing it" Unknown
- "I thought I understood it, that I could grasp it, but I didn’t, not really. Only the smudgeness of it; the pink-slippered, all-containered, semi-precious eagerness of it. I didn’t realize it would sometimes be more than whole, that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea. Because it’s the halves that halve you in half. I didn’t know, don’t know, about the in-between bits; the gory bits of you, and the gory bits of me." Like Crazy
- “One thing I’ve learnt is that you should never look back. The past is dead and buried. You get nothing from living there. It’s all about today.
But I’ve been having these dreams. In them nothing’s real. Nothing’s solid, everything is fantasy. Fucked. An illusion. In these dreams, I’m a life that’s already gone by. Today means nothing. Today is just a ghost that’s haunting me. I’m at the end of the world, on the edge of things, and I think about letting go. I think about falling.
My name is James Cook. I did something once. My ghosts wont let me forget it.
Once you run, you get used to being scared. I don’t even notice it any more. A background hum. But sometimes it gets loud, like someone’s turned up the volume right up. You gotta feel it, really feel it. Accept it. And then it’s just noise again, but you will never stop hearing it. Not ever” James Cook, in Skins
- “Learn how to be lonely. Learn what it’s like to know That you are coming home to yourself night after night— that empty is just another word for open.” Kristina Haynes, in The Love Not Poem
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