“I don't want to die, but I wish waking up every morning didn't feel like such a fuck-you every single time.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“Just wanted to let you know I got in all right. And also that my chest hurts as if I MAY BE DYING, because I accidentally left my heart on your kitchen counter. I hate when that happens.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“I hate when people do this. I hate when people hide their cards to feel secret and strong. That's no way of dealing with anything.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“What’s love when you’re too fucked up to feel it right?
I think it’s a weapon.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“I am tough for a reason and it is to fucking destroy the music. I dance hard.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“I'm happy for the kid and everything, but how the fuck does Lio get a friend before me? I live here.
'I told you I could do it :)' Lio IMs me. I want to rip out that smiley's eyes.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“Sometimes I hate the things I am allowed to do.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“Craig,” he says, in that tone that’s like, I’m one step away from middle-naming you.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“His tragic flaw is that he is a walking tragedy, and his smile makes me feel alive.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“It is so much more beautiful than any polar bears in Alaska. Becaues I am here and he is mine and forever is as long as we want it to be.
The rest, as they say, is history.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“Am I four years old? All I do is cry and say things are stupid.
I'm stupid.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“A few innocent people!" my father says. "A few people were shot for absolutely no reason except for where they happened to be."
But... but, no, I'm calling bullshit, because entire lives are determined by where we happen to be. It's the only reason we care about the cities we care about. God, it's the only reason we fall in love. It's where you happen to be.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“I think once you start going to therapy three times a week, you've made some sort of terrible transition. I think that's the difference between "a little fucked up," in a concerned endearing tone and "fucked up" with raised eyebrows and a slow head nod.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“It is so much more beautiful than any polar bears in Alaska. Because I am here and he is mine and forever is as long as we want it to be.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“Be confident because the odds are in your favor.' He clears his throat, like talking this much hurts him. 'Not because you're a special snowflake.”
― Hannah Moskowitz, quote from Gone, Gone, Gone
“...there being a god, that god must be worshiped. Worship means raising the god above the individual, and liturgies often make the point that the individual is less than nothing compared to the deity. If this be done, then, when the god is invoked, the individual has so little worth that he or she may be sacrificed for the needs of the god....
And who speaks for the god? If all people do, then no one does, and there is no god. If the people accept a priesthood, or the equivalent, then those priests exercise whatever power that god's believers grant that god over them, and that elite may cause an individual to be worth less, to be exiled, or even to die or to be killed. Yet such powers do not come from a deity.
In modern history and science, never has there been a verified occasion of a god appearing or demonstrating the powers ascribed throughout history to deities. Always, there is a prophet who speaks for the god. Why cannot the god speak? If a god is omnipotent, then the god can speak. If he cannot, then that god is not omnipotent. Often the prophets say that a god will only speak to the chosen, the worthy.
Should a people accept a god who is either too powerless to speak, or too devious and skeptical to appear? Or a god who will only accept those who swallow a faith laid out by a prophet who merely claims that deity exists—without proof? Yet people have done so, and have granted enormous powers to those who speak for god.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., quote from The Parafaith War
“Spider’s Web * The Unexpected Guest”
― Agatha Christie, quote from Towards Zero
“You know how the story ends. He escaped and went on to become the greatest chief Suntown ever had. He never built a shrine or a temple or even a shack in the name of Tia. In the Great Book, her name is never mentioned again. He never mused about her or even asked where she was buried. Tia was a virgin. She was beautiful. She was poor. And she was a girl. It was her duty to sacrifice her life for his.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, quote from Who Fears Death
“The easiest way to hide a relationship is not to attempt to hide it.”
― Howard Fast, quote from The Immigrants
“No hay casualidades sino destinos. No se encuentra sino lo que se busca, y se busca lo que en cierto modo está escondido en lo más profundo y oscuro de nuestro corazón. Porque si no, ¿cómo el encuentro con una misma persona no produce en dos seres los mismos resultados? ¿Por qué a uno el encuentro con un revolucionario lo lleva a la revolución y al otro lo deja indiferente? Razón por la cual parece como que uno termina por encontrarse al final con las personas que debe encontrar, quedando así la casualidad reducida a límites muy modestos. De modo que esos encuentros que en la vida de cada uno nos parecen asombrosos, no son otra cosa que la consecuencia de esas fuerzas desconocidas que nos aproximan a través de la multitud indiferente, como las limaduras de hierro se orientan a distancia hasta los polos de un poderoso imán; movimientos; movimientos que constituirían motivo de asombro para las limaduras si tuviesen alguna conciencia de sus actos sin alcanzar a tener, empero, un conocimiento pleno y total de la realidad. Así, marchamos un poco sonámbulos, hacia los seres que de algún modo son desde el comienzo nuestros destinatarios.”
― Ernesto Sabato, quote from On Heroes and Tombs
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