“Please follow these instructions:
1. Stack the pages of this letter neatly.
2. Roll the pages up into a cylinder.
3. Smack yourself over the head with it.
4. Repeat. You complete ass.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Maybe the reason people avoid you is because the emotions your brain sends out when you click are kind of... negative emotions?
Maybe you're clicking unhappiness at people, and they're sending it back in echoes.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Let me tell you a wondrous story. For once, let me be the shining one. It is springtime. Birds are noisiest now. I can almost see the shape of the sky.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Maybe we're on the wrong side of some metaphorical bridge where the grass is crusty and not grass at all, but sharp little spines of glass. I dunno, Moritz.
But the one little speck of green that I get is your letters, so please never stop writing me.
You got that?
Never stop.
Because you'll never meet me and it's the closest we can get.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Wait, how do most people make friends? I've only done it once. There has to be an easier way of going abouit it than getting thrown around and bleeding all over the place. But both of us went through that. So maybe...
Nosebleeds = Friendship Maybe friends are drawn to bloodsheed. You know. Like sharks.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Auburn-Stache. Am I selfish?"
"I've never met a soul that wasn't. I've met a lot of people who don't bother wondering.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Let me put it more artistically, with greater sophistication:
They left us in the toilet. In the deepest pile of shit. And we're coated in the crappy residue of their desicions. But that does not mean we are the one who pooped, Moritz. And neither are we the poop.
Never think that. We're not the poop.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“I know that there's a customary cliche about librarians being what crass people might call "hard-asses".”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“The eyes are windows to the soul”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Sana süper kahramanlığı hedef almamız gerektiğini söylediğimi biliyorum ama belki de haklısındır. Belki de önce normalliği hedeflemeliyiz.Normalliğin imkansız bir şey olması çok yazık .”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“Even if you are powerless, your words are not”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“I want to read all the books that made you, Ollie Ollie UpandFree.”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
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“For my life, I confess to you, feels to me today somewhat narrow and circumscribed.”
― Kenneth Grahame, quote from The Wind in the Willows
“Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?"
I sniffed a few times, considering this.
"Why, just before we get on the train."
"Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.”
― Corrie ten Boom, quote from The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
“If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore”
― Shel Silverstein, quote from A Light in the Attic
“Vulcan?" Leo demanded. "I don't even LIKE Star Trek!”
― Rick Riordan, quote from The Lost Hero
“Before he dies, all his experiences in these long years gather themselves in his head to one point, a ques-tion he has not yet asked the doorkeeper. He waves him nearer, since he can no longer raise his stiffening body. The doorkeeper has to bend low towards him, for the difference in height between them has altered much to the man's disadvantage. "What do you want to know now?" asks the doorkeeper; "you are insati-able." "Everyone strives to reach the Law," says the man, "so how does it happen that for all these many years no one but myself has ever begged for admit-tance?" The doorkeeper recognizes that the man has reached his end, and to let his failing senses catch the words roars in his ear: "No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it.”
― Franz Kafka, quote from The Trial
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