“Where does thin become fat? Where does success become failure? Where does a great future become a horrible past full of heartache and regret?”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“Stress used to gnaw and saw away inside me like a tiny black hole. I learned that in spite of the stress, I could do everything I needed to do: study, make top grades, shop for the right clothes, and put on that perfect smile. Some days, I felt like Wonder Woman.
The only thing I couldn't do was eat.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“I know she loves me. As crazy as it sounds, I do know that. As unlikely as it seems that anyone could still love what I've become, I don't doubt that love for a second.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“Life is love. Life, in all its suffering, is love. And death is powerless to change that.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“It's the girl lost in the forest.
A forest that isn't even there.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“Somewhere in my distant memories, I used to be so busy that I longed for a pause button for my life. To freeze the whole world for an hour, or an afternoon: that was my favourite daydream. To stroll across green grass, admire the butterflies stopped in midair, stroke the soft feathers of birds at the feeder. To maybe lie down and take a nap in the sunshine and know that absolutely nothing needed to get done. No deadlines ticking closer. No obligations crowding in.
But deadlines don't worry me anymore. Neither do aches and pains. Minor problems like that can't begin to touch the agony I'm in. I lie as still as I can to keep the thoughts and memories from finding me, but sick misery clings to me anyway, as close as a second skin.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“Life is a combat zone. People who say it isn't have already lost the war.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“I'm playing along. With what strength I have left, I try to reassure them that the rest I'm getting is healing me. But what I really am is finished, and there's no cure for that. I've collapsed like a pile of bones.
Where does think become fat? Where does success become failure? Where does a great future become a horrible past full of heartache and regret?”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“So I lie still and take deep, quiet breaths. Pain doesn't bother me. I'm not afraid. I'm used to living with pain.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“That's my conscience. We all have one. Mine never lets me settle for second best. There's no place in life for losers.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“Anger is honest. Hatred is a backhanded compliment. Envy is the best gift of all. But let them turn you into a victim, and you're labelled for life.
Pity is the sea you drown in.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“My heart hurts -- my damaged heart. My heart is thin, even if I'm not.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“Because sometimes, you have to be where they can't see you. Sometimes you have to get away.”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“A skull. A shell of death between me and my life. For years, that skull has stifled my better intentions. The bad people I know--the abusive guys and self-destructive friends--have been right there with me on the inside. But the good ones, the ones who cared for me--the ones I would have had to learn to care for in return--they haven't had a chance to break through.
A skull. A shell of death.
When does life become death?”
― quote from Elena Vanishing
“Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi.”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from Vita Nuova
“It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.”
― William Gaddis, quote from The Recognitions
“The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.
First of all, there's the name that the family use daily,
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James,
Such as Victor or Jonathan, or George or Bill Bailey -
All of them sensible everyday names.
There are fancier names if you think they sound sweeter,
Some for the gentlemen, some for the dames:
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter -
But all of them sensible everyday names.
But I tell you, a cat needs a name that's particular,
A name that's peculiar, and more dignified,
Else how can he keep up his tail perpendicular,
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?
Of names of this kind, I can give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo, or Coricopat,
Such as Bombalurina, or else Jellylorum -
Names that never belong to more than one cat.
But above and beyond there's still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover -
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.”
― T.S. Eliot, quote from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
“Yes or no?' said Murphy. The eternal tautology.”
― Samuel Beckett, quote from Murphy
“Well, where's the hussy now? Is she in Avalon? Does she live in New York? Is she allergic to strawberries? Because I will send her a gift basket that'll make her wish she'd never laid eyes on Gabriel's deceitful-albeit delicious-body!”
― Chelsea Fine, quote from Anew
Without Merit
Elective Affinities
The Conformist
Angry Housewives Eat...
Angels Flight
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