Latest Quotes

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.…”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

“You are the comforting weight and familiarity of cover and pages clutched in hands that have always instinctively reached for something to hold. You are the words sprinkled across those pages, simple lines winding their way into formations that create something so breathtakingly wonderful.”

— Mia Ingallina, I Will Never Stop Writing About You

“Our epic story began long ago, From the day that we met, I loved you so, Wish I had the chance to relive the past, To change the day our bitter fate was cast.”

— Annamarie Jayne, Blank Page

“I’ve become so hyper-aware of all the possible signs the universe is handing me that I’m not even thinking about myself. Maybe it’s possible that, no matter what I choose, it will be right because I will make it right. But we can’t look for clues in the present as though they’ve been left here by th…”

— Leah Singerman, We Can’t Keep Looking For Signs To Tell Us Where To Go, We Just Have To Go

“We have to process the things that happen in our lives, and sometimes we do that by justifying them as 'meant to be.' We can map out the moments that led to any significant life event, but when it comes to making decisions about the future, that way of thinking becomes a handicap. We’re so used to p…”

— Leah Singerman, We Can’t Keep Looking For Signs To Tell Us Where To Go, We Just Have To Go

“I don’t believe in goodbyes. I don’t believe that the connections we have to people and things are temporary. That somewhere along the way they cease to exist, cease to carry meaning, cease to be something real. Because no matter the time, the distance, the loss in our life, they will forever carry…”

— Marisa Donnelly, I Don’t Believe In Goodbyes

“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now.You’re probably thinking of words like slut, whore, bitch, cunt (I told you not to hold back!), skank.Okay, now, what are the worst things you can call a guy? Fag, girl, bitch, pussy. I’ve even heard the term “mangina.”Notice…”

— Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism

“You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it?There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over.”

— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.”

— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“I think the average guy thinks they’re pro-woman, just because they think they’re a nice guy and someone has told them that they’re awesome. But the truth is far from it. Unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, c…”

— Junot Dìaz, How Junot Diaz Wrote A Sexist Character, But Not A Sexist Book

“You will still be art even when he stops admiring.”

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

“And without God, the wars seemed crueller life seemed bleaker. Art seemed foolish. Death seemed stranger now than ever. What was mankind for? What terror flooded us to understand there was no point, no grander plan.”

— Kate Tempest, Progress

“And I feel my body fully, vessel of desire, my stomach a pond of want and warmth, utterly human, divine and awake. And I can hear each bird's separate song, the chirt and scree, the sip, sip, sip, the dwindle and uplift yearning, the soup's on, soup's on, let up, let it go of each individual voice,…”

— Dorianne Laux, "Morning Song," in Facts About The Moon

“Things aren’t the way they were before, you wouldn’t even recognize me anymore, not that you knew me back then but it all comes back to me in the end.”

— Linkin Park, In The End

“We think of forest fires as these devastating events that we need to stop, but they are actually vital to ecological health of an area. There are plants that require the heat of a wildfire for their seeds to burst open and plant themselves in the earth. There are others that are meant to be flammabl…”

— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, 100 Reasons Losing Him Is Not A Loss

“The way other people feel about you is not your responsibility.”

— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, 100 Reasons Losing Him Is Not A Loss

“When monetization is handled by the platform, brand is quantified as the incremental reach (and thus revenue) that a piece of content can get by being published under that brand. Then it becomes about the math: If brand reach = 130 percent, and journalist cut = 45 percent, then publish under brand.…”

— Tony Haile, The Facebook Papers, Part 3: Facebook pulls a page from the Amazon playbook

“[Their] scariness makes ambitious ideas doubly valuable. In addition to their intrinsic value, they're like undervalued stocks in the sense that there's less demand for them among founders. If you pick an ambitious idea, you'll have less competition, because everyone else will have been frightened o…”

— Paul Graham, Schlep Blindness

“But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips.”

— Emily Palermo, I Don't Want To Be Quiet Anymore

“I’ve put off immortalizing you in saying what I have to say because once I do, you’re no longer mine. It’s putting you out into the world to be poetry for someone else. And as long as I keep you in my head, no one else can touch us. Even when there is nothing to touch. Even when there is no us.”

— Kendra Syrdal, Someday I’ll Write About You, But Not Today