“We're seriously going to drive to Jersey with a bird wearing a bra in the backseat?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“He's not a pet. He's an accident victim.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“The future is always bright; it isn't until you get there that you realize it isn't.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“I'll never leave if you keep feeding me bacon every day," Peter says to Aunt Beth.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“No, I was just trying to burn a hole in the side of your face with my laser vision. It didn't work.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“I lost you, but you're sitting right next to me!”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“When you said you were giving her a ring, I wanted to make sure she didn't eat it by accident. Who puts a ring in a muffin?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“What kind of married couple uses a pole on their wedding night?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“What are you thinking in that beautiful head of yours?”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“When you find the right person, yeah—this is what it feels like." He takes a deep breath, trying to steady himself before taking my hand and placing it over his heart. It's beating fast and hard. "Do you feel that? We haven't done anything yet and that's how I react to you.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“Our eyes meet and the rest of the world melts away.”
― H.M. Ward, quote from Damaged 2
“in humans gossip is a critical mechanism for social control—that is, for enforcing cooperation. Indeed,”
― Joshua D. Greene, quote from Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
“Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it’s learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don’t worry if your focus isn’t perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.”
― Kelly McGonigal, quote from The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It
“It’s hard to feel supported when you can’t tell people everything. People haven’t really got a clue what it’s like. It’s hard to trust anyone. It’s hard to believe people won’t let you down. I’m feeling like I want to cry. My body feels hollow. Empty. I don’t feel like I’m 17. I feel young. I’m not sure how old, maybe about 10 yrs. It’s hard to accept that I can’t get all the support I need from one person. From any person. It’s hard that no one can fully understand. It’s hard for me to admit that inside I feel a really lonely person. What do I need to do to take care of myself right now? Well I need to cuddle my teddies — it sounds silly, but I need some comfort...
I was still cuddling teddies when I should have been cuddling boys. The sick imagery in my mind, rather than making me sexually active, had closed that door completely.”
― quote from Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“I have often been charged with falsehood and hypocrisy, yet there lives not the man who would more gladly than I speak truthfully and lay bare his heart; but as I have not one idea, one feeling in common with the people who surround me, as the very first word I should speak truthfully would cause a general hue and cry, I have preferred to keep silent, or, if I do speak, to utter only stupid commonplaces which everyone has agreed to believe in.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Mademoiselle de Maupin
“You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz
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