Latest Quotes

“Any fool can love somebody who’s perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn’t stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they’ve hurt you.”

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Hot Shot

“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”

— Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith

“When it feels scary to jump, that is exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life and that I can’t do.”

— J. C. Chandor, A Most Violent Year

“But if, as in this election, a man who spews hate and vulgarity, with no comprehension of how government works, can become presidentially plausible because he is magnetic while a capable, workaholic woman who knows policy inside and out struggles because she is not magnetic, perhaps we should reeval…”

— Brigitte Lacombe, Hillary Clinton vs. Herself

“How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Why did people ask "What is it about?" as if a novel had to be about only one thing.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)

“She wanted to tell him, “There is no week that passed that I did not think of you.” But was that true? Of course there were weeks during which he was folded under layers of her life, but it felt true.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)

“She found it so attractive, his shortness, his solid firm shortness. She saw, in his shortness, a groundedness; he could weather anything, he would not easily be swayed.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)

“She found this foolishly exciting, that it was raining where she was and it was not raining where he was, only minutes from her, and so she waited, with impatience, with a charged delight, until they could both see the rain together.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Ala Notable Books for Adults)

“the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.”

— Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”

— Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire

“did she love you? only as an extension of herself. what else can love be?”

— Charles Bukowski, Notes Of A Dirty Old Man

“To be young is the only religion.”

— Charles Bukowski, Notes Of A Dirty Old Man

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mocke…”

— Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”

— Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.”

— Charles Bukowski, Pulp

“Is it better to out – monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”

— Freidrich Nietzsche, via Tumblr

“We were never good mornings because to have a good morning you have to stay the night. We were never just between us smiles because there was never really an us to begin with. We were never holding hands because one of us was always pulling away.”

— Kendra Syrdal, Maybe In Another Lifetime We Decided To Stop Running Away

“She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.”

— Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alice

“Having nothing to struggle against, they have nothing to struggle for.”

— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense