Latest Quotes

“Sanders can theoretically clinch the nomination ahead of the Democratic convention, just as you can theoretically drive from L.A. to San Francisco in two hours. But don't try it.”

— Mark Z. Barabak, Hillary Clinton keeps losing. So how come she's winning?

“We treat anything published in a journal as if it's from Moses coming down the mountaintop with a set of stone tablets. Journals were never meant to be sources for the 24-hour news cycle: they are meant to be a forum for discussion among scientists.”

— Gary Schwitzer, Scientific journals aren’t meant to be “sources for the 24-hour news cycle”

“Be the girl who travels and reawaken your sense of hope in the world. Let it change you, transform you, and give you a sort of longing that few other things ever will.”

— Jerrica Peterson, Be The Girl That Travels

“Both of them were uncertain; both of them were trying as much as they could; both of them would doubt themselves, would progress and recede. But they would both keep trying, because they trusted the other, and because the other person was the only other person who ever be worth such hardships, such…”

— Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“My summer fairy, laying in the tall grass, and chewing on dandelion stems; staring at the big sky and contemplating existence. My wild child, tail dancing like a child’s song, fur as white and soft as morning. And I’m sorry that cuddling isn’t your favorite yet, but you can’t blame a mom for trying…”

— Schuyler Peck, Puppy Hiccups

“You suck at moving on because you aren’t willing to change your own life. You keep waiting for someone, something to change it for you. And when that doesn’t happen you just sit, still waiting and still transfixed on the thing you claimed to be letting go of in the first place.”

— Kendra Syrdal, The Bitter Truth About Why You Suck At Moving On

“COUPLES ARE MORE LIKELY TO STAY TOGETHER, AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS ARE MORE LIKELY TO SUCCEED, WHEN THEY TURN TOWARD EACH OTHER INSTEAD OF AWAY.”

— Julia Dellitt, Lessons Learned from Couples Therapy

“It doesn’t matter if one of us is desperately, desperately in love. So much in love that equally desperate measures must be taken.”

— E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.”

— Thomas Love Peacock, Gryll Grange

“For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again.”

— Eric Roth, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been given to us, the ultimate, the final problem and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters To a Young Poet

“You are as you are until you’re not.”

— Jamie Varon, To Anyone Who Thinks They're Falling Behind In Life

“Splashing water on her face, she glanced up into the mirror and regarded her reflection with dismay. The thing they never tell you about sin, she thought, is how it returns you, over and over, to the same terrible place, a precursor of eternity in hell.”

— David Corbett, Babylon Sister | Narrative Magazine

“Sorry doesn’t take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It’s an offering. A gift.”

— Craig Silvey, Jasper Jones

“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, for she considered love a serious disability.”

— Toni Morrison, Beloved

“I wonder if I’ll keep trying to fix all the people who are already unfixable. I wonder if I’ll keep cutting myself trying to put their shattered pieces together. I wonder if I’ll ever learn that they won’t stop me from bleeding when they are the ones who keep slashing my veins.”

— Rania Naim, I Wonder If I’ll Ever Stop Loving The Wrong People

“Remember that you were art long before he came to admire you, and you'll continue to be art even when he's gone.”

— Charlotte Geier, via Tumblr

“Dear Woman, Sometimes You'll just be too much woman. Too smart, Too beautiful, Too strong. Too much of something. That makes a man feel like less of a man, Which will start making you feel like you have to be less of a woman. The biggest mistake you can make Is removing jewels from your crown To mak…”

— Michael E. Reid, "Dear Woman" in Dear Woman

“The media is TOTALLY dishonest!”

— Donald Trump, Donald Trump Strikes Back After NYT Piece: ‘Media Is TOTALLY Dishonest!’

“Introverts have very small social circles, and it takes a lot for us to let people in. We may not always talk about our feelings, because words are too simple to express our deep emotions, but if we have made you a part of our life, know that we care for you.”

— Bianca Sparacino, You Have To Love An Introvert Differently