“... We're just different."
"Yeah," I say. "I'm mute and you have verbal diarrhea.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“You don't have to say yes to everything, you know. It's okay to say no.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I love you. I don't always understand you, but I love you.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I don't think there's a good reason to run unless someone's chasing me. Seriously.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I just wanted a chance. You know. Like everyone else.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“The heart can function with the wound but it never entirely heals.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“There's not always time to say everything.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“It feels like you stole from me, like you used me. In more ways than one.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I know what it's like to look for someone to fill up the whole inside you.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“Things aren't always as bad as they seem.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“I don't want to know their secrets. There's only so far I can go.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“When I was in the hospital, Jeremy made a bet. That you would go to the Winter Ball with Clark." "Really?" I smile. "We're just friends." I tell her. She nods. "They're the best kind.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
“The heart can function but it never entirely heals.”
― Janet Gurtler, quote from I'm Not Her
Janet Gurtler
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“Where, Bredon asked himself, did the money come from that was to be spent so variously and so lavishly? If this hell’s-dance of spending and saving were to stop for a moment, what would happen? If all the advertising in the world were to shut down tomorrow, would people still go on buying more soap, eating more apples, giving their children more vitamins, roughage, milk, olive oil, scooters and laxatives, learning more languages by gramophone, hearing more virtuosos by radio, re-decorating their houses, refreshing themselves with more non-alcoholic thirst-quenchers, cooking more new, appetizing dishes, affording themselves that little extra touch which means so much? Or would the whole desperate whirligig slow down, and the exhausted public relapse upon plain grub and elbow-grease? He did not know. Like all rich men, he had never before paid any attention to advertisements. He had never realized the enormous commercial importance of the comparatively poor. Not on the wealthy, who buy only what they want when they want it, was the vast superstructure of industry founded and built up, but on those who, aching for a luxury beyond their reach and for a leisure for ever denied them, could be bullied or wheedled into spending their few hardly won shillings on whatever might give them, if only for a moment, a leisured and luxurious illusion. Phantasmagoria”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, quote from Murder Must Advertise
“It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.”
― David D. Burns, quote from Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
“My existence is colorless when I’m not imagining you. You haunt me, Annabelle. ”
― April Brookshire, quote from Young Love Murder
“-وماذا في الكلمات من سوء؟
-ليس هناك مخدرًا أسوأ من الكلام”
― Antonio Skármeta, quote from The Postman
“I was like Robinson Crusoe on the island of Tobago. For hours at a stretch I would lie in the sun doing nothing, thinking of nothing. To keep the mind empty is a feat, a very healthful feat too. To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely indifferent to the fate of the world is the finest medicine a man can give himself. The book-learning gradually dribbles away; problems melt and dissolve; ties are gently severed; thinking, when you deign to indulge in it, becomes very primitive; the body becomes a new and wonderful instrument; you look at plants or stones or fish with different eyes; you wonder what people are struggling to accomplish with their frenzied activities; you know there is a war on but you haven't the faintest idea what it's about or why people should enjoy killing one another; you look at a place like Albania—it was constantly staring me in the eyes—and you say to yourself, yesterday it was Greek, to-day it's Italian, to-morrow it may be German or Japanese, and you let it be anything it chooses to be. When you're right with yourself it doesn't matter which flag is flying over your head or who owns what or whether you speak English or Monongahela. The absence of newspapers, the absence of news about what men are doing in different parts of the world to make life more livable or unlivable is the greatest single boon. If we could just eliminate newspapers a great advance would be made, I am sure of it. Newspapers engender lies, hatred, greed, envy, suspicion, fear, malice. We don't need the truth as it is dished up to us in the daily papers. We need peace and solitude and idleness. If we could all go on strike and honestly disavow all interest in what our neighbor is doing we might get a new lease on life. We might learn to do without telephones and radios and newspapers, without machines of any kind, without factories, without mills, without mines, without explosives, without battleships, without politicians, without lawyers, without canned goods, without gadgets, without razor blades even or cellophane or cigarettes or money. This is a pipe dream, I know.”
― Henry Miller, quote from The Colossus of Maroussi
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