“That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape--the world or the end of it?”Tagged: humanity, Being human, Understanding Life, Trying To Understand, Trying To Understand Death
“We can’t love our neighbors till we know how crooked their hearts are.”Tagged: Love, Loving Each Other, Love & Relationships, Crooked Hearts, humanity
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they’re gonna do. I’m just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”Tagged: Taking Chances, Do It, Going For It, Adventurous
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”Tagged: Life, Living life, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures, Living
“Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.”Tagged: Death, Dying Young, Asking Questions, Seeking Answers, Great Perhaps
“I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.”Tagged: Death, Smart, Being Smart, Talking About Death, Dying Young
“When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.”Tagged: Reading, Book Worm, Reader, Book Lover, My Favorites
“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.”Tagged: What It Feels Like To Die, Death, Instant, In An Instant, Fleeting Moments
“In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.”Tagged: Smells, Smell Of A Woman, Love, Love & Relationships, Smell Of Love
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”Tagged: Death, Pain, Losing Life, Circle Of Life
“It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.”Tagged: Thoughts, Human Connection, Not Alone, Feelings
“We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken.”Tagged: surviving, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength, broken
“Those awful things are survivable because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”Tagged: surviving, Moving On, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming, strength
“Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war.”Tagged: Battle, Winning The War, Being A Child, Mischief