There's nothing I can say that wouldn't be better said in, like, a book.
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Quotes tagged ‘OITNB’
I don’t need to talk about how I need a drink, I need a reason not to drink.
You know who made up that ‘never snitch’ bullshit? People who probably deserved to be snitched on.
The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things. The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe…And what a wonderful relief every so often to know who your enemy is–because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time. A…
Has it occurred to you that it's racist to assume that black people are gonna beat you up for being racist?
My name is Poussey. Accent à droite, bitch.
Look, maybe... this challenges what you thought you were. And... maybe I'm gonna get my heart broken in a thousand different pieces. But those are maybes. You can't live your life according to maybes.
There's no such thing as love. Love is just sex without the money shot.
Did ever occur to you that we don't wanna get in touch with our feelings? That actually feeling our feelings might make it impossible to survive in here?
We are all just in here because we took the wrong turn going to church.
Love. It’s just chilling, you know? Kicking it with somebody, talking, making mad stupid jokes. And, like, not even wanting to go to sleep, ‘cause then you might be without ‘em for a minute. And you don’t want that.
Everyone wants to go back in time sometimes; to go back to the moment when everything was still possible. Before they made a wrong turn so that they can go on the right path. But it’s not possible. All we can do is make the most of right now.
Hope is a dangerous thing.
Sometimes the kindest thing to do is to let people go.
The thing about reality is it’s still there waiting for you the next morning.
Sometimes you’ve got to rage in order to move on.
Why do you always feel so inevitable to me?
I was there for Alex. She was what I paid attention to. Who I paid attention to. Everything else was just background.
It’s like you become more you, which normally is like ‘Blaaaaagh! Pow!’ But now it’s okay because the person, like, whoever—they chose to take all that on. All that weird stuff, whatever’s wrong, or bad, or hiding in you. Suddenly it’s alright. You don’t feel like such a freak anymore.
Life gets messy sometimes. You gotta learn you can’t always fix it.