“We are made of all those who have built and broken us.”
“I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk. ”
“I think it’s beautiful
the way you sparkle
when you talk about
the things you love.”
“She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. ”
“There is nothing
prettier in the
whole wide world
than a girl
in love
with every breath she takes.”
“Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.”
“She had just enough madness to make her interesting”
“Love her but leave her wild ”
“A sky
full
of stars
and he
was staring
at her.
—ATTICUS”
“She was afraid of heights
but she was
much more afraid
of never flying.”
“It was her chaos that made her beautiful. ”
“I worry there is something broken in our generation,
there are too many sad eyes on happy faces.”
“I WANT TO BE WITH SOMEONE WHO DREAMS OF DOING EVERYTHING IN LIFE
AND NOTHING ON RAINY SUNDAY AFTERNOONS.”
“What good are wings without the courage to fly?”
“From
the moment
I saw her
I knew
this one
was worth
the
broken
heart.”
“Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is.”
“Chase your stars fool, life is short. ”
“I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth.”
“Brushing a girl’s hair
behind her ear
once a day
will solve more problems
than all those
therapists
and drugs.”
“She wore the moonlight like lingerie. ”
“Time is all we have and don’t. ”
“There’s too much risk in loving,’
the young boy said,
‘no,’
said the old man,
‘there’s too much risk in not.”
“We are all born free
and spend a lifetime
becoming slaves
to our own
false truths.”
“She was everything real in a world of make-believe. ”
“That was her magic—
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days.”
“Sometimes
I want a quiet life
other times
I want to go
a little bit
fucking Gatsby.”
“It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart”
“We humans
are so tortured
by not properly guessing
what will make us happy.”
“I will follow you,
my love,
to the edge of all our days,
to our very last
tomorrows.”
“I let her go
because I knew she could do better
and now she's gone
I wonder
if I should've
just been better.”
“We consider the underlying fallacy of the plaintiff’s argument to consist in the assumption that the enforced separation of the two races stamps the colored race with a badge of inferiority. If this be so, it is not by reason of anything found in the act, but solely because the colored race chooses to put that construction upon it.”
“We are alive, the wolves said. And the world is beautiful.”
“Most people live their lives as if the end were always years away. They measure their days in love, laughter, accomplishment, and loss. There are moments of sunshine and storm. Yet life can end in less time than it takes to draw one breath.”
“In that time while he was still aware, which was the worse, I wonder: the agony of his physical torture or the horror of their utter hatred, of their moral certainty that he was so beyond the bounds of what they could accept that he deserved not just a death but one of such brutality, such inhumanity, as would make the seraphs who burned Sodom bow their heads in cold respect? What is it like, I wonder, to learn the full capacity of hatred in a lesson hammered home with bone broken on wood and skin ripped on barbed wire?”
“When I look in the fridge, I see groceries, but I don't see food. My stomach growls; but there is no appetite.
Appetite and hunger are different. Appetite is the mental prompting that kicks the auto-response into drive so you actually reach out, take the food, put it in your mouth, chew, and swallow. I learned this in my first psychology course. Eating isn't just a physical need; it starts in the mind, generating hunger, which then should trigger the body to ingest food. I have no sparks between these plugs.”
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