“I see beauty and pain. Joy and sorrow. I see the good and I see the bad . . . and I love it all.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“And it killed me because I could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many years I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him...”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I don’t get to have this. I already told you… you deserve someone who can love you, someone who will be good for you, and you know that’s not me.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“And it killed me because i could never forget him. Couldn't because he'd permanently etched himself to me, left a part of himself forever within me. For so many year I'd loved him, but when he'd gone this time, he'd taken a part of me captive too, a piece that could never be retrieved because it would always belong to him.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Hearts have a way of finding their way home.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Mom once told me Aly had me wrapped around her little finger. She’d been wrong. Aly had held me in the palm of her hand.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“You’re going to forget about me and find happiness. You’re going to find someone who can love you exactly the way you deserve to be loved.” I lowered myself so I could directly meet her face. “Do you hear me?”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I never wanted you to see me like I was tonight,” he said, “but it was inevitable… all of this is… inevitable. And still I stay because I don’t fucking know how to walk away from you. Last night… ” He wrenched a trembling hand through his hair. “Fuck, Aly… last night was the closest I’ve come to feeling something real in so long.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“If I believed in soul mates or any of that shit, I knew she was mine. I could feel it, this connection with her I couldn’t possibly share with anyone else. Like we fit, this fucked -up puzzle that made no sense until we aligned the pieces.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“It was always you, Jared. Always. I can’t remember a day in my life when I didn’t love you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“You were my first crush.” She sobered, her voice strained as sincere green eyes slanted up to me . “And my only love.” Her throat bobbed as she swallowed, almost painfully. “I’ve been waiting for you my whole life.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Never in my life had I felt as exposed as I did right then. Her fingertips softened as they traced along the outline of my sins, as she caressed the markings of every mistake I’d ever made as if this girl somehow found some kind of beauty in them.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I’m going to walk away and I’m going to forget about you, Aly. And you’re going to do the same.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“And God, it kills me to think of hurting you.”
I grasped his face between urgent hands. “Then don’t.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Don’t, Aly.” He ran his thumb over my cheek. “You think I can’t feel this? How badly you want the things I can’t give you? That’s why it makes me sick that I’m doing this, because I already warned you… you can’t fix me, and you can’t say or do something that will change my mind or fill up the void in my soul”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“It made me fucking crazy, and I fucking ruined it. I’m sorry I ruined it, Aly, but I warned you that I would.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“How could I not?” My hand fluttered in her direction, wishing I could make every fucking inch of space separating us disappear. “I lied to you, Aly. That night… ” I swallowed hard as my attention shot to the place where I’d left her behind before I angled it back on her. “I left knowing I could never forget you, but praying somehow you could forget me. And I know I shouldn’t be here. I know I should give you a chance to forget, but, Aly… I miss you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“This—this was our deception, where I wanted to live until the day I died. Where nothing was real but the secrets we whispered in the night.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I ruin every fucking thing I touch, Aly, and I refuse to ruin you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I don’t get you, Jared. Did you think you could stay here and I’d just ignore you? I care about you.”
“Don’t say that,” he whispered”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“The boy was painted in his pain”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“It isn’t worth it if it doesn’t hurt a little.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Jared, no. Please don’t do this. Don’t leave me. I love you.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“A still heart quickens as beauty graces the foul.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“I bet whatever you keep hidden in the pages of those books is absolutely beautiful, Aly .” He swallowed, diverting his gaze to the far wall before he dropped it to meet mine. A tender palm came to rest on the side of my face. He caressed his thumb over the apple of my cheek. “How could it not be? Look at you . . . you have to be the most beautiful creature I’ve ever seen.”
Pain reverberated in his words. Still they wrapped around me like the warmest embrace.
My fingers ventured to his chest, twisting in his shirt. The strong throb of his pulse thundered under them. “Everything I love is in the pages of those books, Jared.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“Could either of us ever forget the connection we’d shaped, one carved out in those perfect hours spent alone in my room?
No. Not me.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
“You grew up on me, Aly,” he murmured, the words rough, almost in awe.”
― A.L. Jackson, quote from Come to Me Quietly
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“It's the same with spirit guises; show me a sweet little choirboy or a smiling mother and I'll show you the hideous fanged strigoi it really is. (Not always. Just sometimes. *Your* mother is absolutely fine, for instance. Probably.)”
― Jonathan Stroud, quote from The Ring of Solomon
“He looked so pained that I dreamed of taking his hands and making him dance”
― Andrea Levy, quote from Small Island
“Don't make the extremely foolish mistake of thinking that winning is everything. If there is one person that I would really like to smack, it is the person who said, "Winning is not the main thing. It's the only thing." That's awful. Taking part is the main thing. Doing your best is the main thing. There is no shame in not winning. The shame is in not trying to win, which is of course another matter altogether. Above all, be gracious in defeat. Believe me, you'll get plenty of chances to put this into practice, so you might as well
start working on it now.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away
“The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in haecceity, Sax had said, in thisness, in here-and-nowness, in the particular individuality of every moment. That's why I want to know what is this? what is this? what is this? Now, remembering Sax's odd word and his odd religion, John finally understood him; because he was feeling the thisness of the moment like a rock in his hand, and it felt as if his entire life had been lived only to get him to this moment.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, quote from Red Mars
“الصعوبة الخاصة في ادراك الى اي مدى لا تكون فيه رغباتنا -وافكارنا ومشاعرنا بالمثل- حقا رغباتنا بل وُضعت فينا من الخارج مرتبطة ارتباطا وثيقا بمشكلة السلطة و الحرية. في سيرورة التاريخ الحديث حلت محل سلطة الكنيسة سلطة الدولة وحلت محل سلطة الدولة سلطة الضمير وفي حقبتنا الراهنة حلت محل سلطة الضمير السلطة المجهولة للحس المشترك العام والرأي العام كأدوات للتطابق. ولاننا قد حررنا انفسنا من الاشكال الصريحة القديمة للسلطة فاننا لا نتبين اننا اصبحنا فريسة نوع جديد للسلطة. لقد اصبحنا آلات آلية نعيش في ظل وهم الافراد ذوي الارادة الذاتية. هذا الوهم يساعد الفرد على ان يظل غير مدرك لعدم زعزعته, ولكن هذا هو كل العون الذي يستطبع وهم ان يمنحه. ونفس الفرد ضعيفة اساسا, حتى انه يشعر بالعجز والزعزعة الشديدية. انه يعيش في عالم فقد فيه التعلق الاصيل به والذي فيه قد اصبح كل شيء وكل شيء مصطبغا بصبغة الاداة التي تؤدي عملها بلا تفكير حيث اصبح جزءا من آلة بنتها يداه. انه يفكر ويشعر ويريد ما يعتقد انه مفروض فيه ان يفكر فيه ويشعر به ويريده, وفي هذه العملية ذاتها يفقد نفسه التي عليها يجب ان ينبني كل أمان أصيل لفرد حر.”
― Erich Fromm, quote from Escape from Freedom
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