Latest Quotes

“All I wanted was to crush him with my words. As if my words had the power to remove my pain and make us even. I was wrong. My words bounced back and cut my wound deeper. Pain is not healed with anger. The wound only closes when forgiveness shows its face.”

— Mirtha Michelle Castro, Letters, To The Men I Have Loved

“If your friend was standing next to you and their hair was on fire, that fire would be the only thing they really cared about in this world. It wouldn’t matter if they were hungry, just suffered a bad breakup, or were running late to a meeting—they’d prioritize putting the fire out. If you handed th…”

— Michael Seibel, The Real Product Market Fit

“That was the morning I committed the first sin of love, which was to confuse beauty and a good sound track with knowledge.”

— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter

“We all walk in a cloud of mourning for the New York that just disappeared.”

— Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter: A novel

“Forfeiting solitude, independence, is a much greater sacrifice than most of us realize.”

— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“Sadness is a normal human condition, no different from happiness. You wouldn’t think of happiness as an illness. Sadness and happiness need each other.”

— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“It’s not you, it’s me. It’s my issue. I’m the one with the problem. I’m putting you in an unfair position. You’re a good person. I need to work through some things. You need to move on. We tried, we did. And you never know what’ll happen in the future.”

— Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“The only thing scarier than telling someone you love them is telling them that you still love them.”

— Ella Dawson, Romantic Gesturing

“We broke up but love doesn't go anywhere.”

— Ella Dawson, Romantic Gesturing

“We now live in a post-factual democracy. When the facts met the myths, they were as useless as bullets bouncing off the bodies of aliens in a HG Wells novel. When Michael Grove said 'the British people are sick of experts' he was right. But can anybody tell me the last time a prevailing culture of a…”

— Anonymous, via Facebook

“It was the working classes who voted for us to leave because they were economically disregarded and it is they who will suffer most in the short term from the dearth of jobs and investment. They have merely swapped one distant and unreachable elite for another.”

— Anonymous, via Facebook

“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”

— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”

— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up

“Brexiteers like the cheating man shocked he can't stay in the spare room for 2 years while he sorts himself out.”

— J.K. RowlingVerified account, J.K. Rowling

“Never forget: self-awareness is a sacred duty, one that rises above everything else. It would be selfish to think that you are no use to anyone and to waste your talents and energy following around people who don’t know what they want to do with their lives.”

— Martin Laird, Why Successful People Leave Their Loser Friends Behind

“The numbing news that Britain has voted to leave the European Union is the worst step backward for Europe -- and for Western civilization -- since the end of World War II.”

— Charles Kaiser, Brexit is the biggest step backward since World War II

“I hope I’m wrong to think that Britain has made a choice that will have very bad consequences, because I don’t wish disaster on my country. But among the things to fear is what happens when the millions of poorer Britons who were seduced by the Brexiters discover that it is not the miracle solution…”

— Andrew Rawnsley, Brexit: a journey into the unknown for a country never before so divided

“It will be a formidable challenge for Britain’s next prime minister to make an economic, diplomatic and political success out of Brexit. Or, to set the bar at a more realistic level, to contain the damage.”

— Andrew Rawnsley, Brexit: a journey into the unknown for a country never before so divided

“David Cameron... The man who arrived as leader of his party pledging to purge its obsession with ‘banging on about Europe’ has blown himself up over Europe.”

— Andrew Rawnsley, Brexit: a journey into the unknown for a country never before so divided