Jasmine Warga · 302 pages
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“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“You're like a grey sky. You're beautiful, even though you don't want to be.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I will be stronger than my sadness.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Anyone who has actually been that sad can tell you that there's nothing beautiful or literary or mysterious about depression.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I once read in my physics book that the universe begs to be observed, that energy travels and transfers when people pay attention. Maybe that's what love really boils down to--having someone who cares enough to pay attention so that you're encouraged to travel and transfer, to make your potential energy spark into kinetic energy.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“It’s funny how once you like someone, even the unattractive things they do somehow become endearing.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“It's like your sadness is so deep and overwhelming that you're worried it will drown everyone else in your life if you let them too close to it.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I wish I could draw you how I see you. I'd draw a boy with the most magnetic smile, and the kindest hands, and eyes that are gloomy, but can sometimes be bright. I'd draw a boy who deserves to see the ocean.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Life can seem awful and unfixable until the universe shifts a little and the observation point is altered, and then suddenly, everything seems more bearable.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“You know, Zellie, there are enough broken things in the world. You shouldn't go around breaking things just for the fun of it.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Maybe the sadness comes just before the insanity”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I like other people's words. They fill me up.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Something inside me clicks. It's like I've spent my whole life fiddling with a complicated combination only to discover I was toying with the wrong lock.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“And this time, I can feel my hand. I can feel everything. And I want to keep feeling everything. Even the painful, awful, terrible things. Because feeling things is what lets us know that we’re alive.
And I want to be alive.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“He’s no longer the person I want to die with; he’s the person I want to be alive with.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I don't like songs about wanting things. I like songs about letting go, saying goodbye.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I’m not asking you to live for me. Even though that would be nice because I’m in love with you. And yeah, yeah, you can tell me I’m misusing that word, but I don’t care. That’s how I feel. But this isn’t even about me, or how I feel about you. I want you to live for you because I know there’s so much more waiting for you. There’s so much more for you to discover and experience. And you deserve it, you might not think you do, but you do. I’m here to tell you that you deserve it. And I know I sound cheesy as hell. Believe me, six weeks ago, I would’ve slapped myself for saying shit like this, but knowing you... Knowing you has helped me see things differently. See myself differently. And all I want is for you to see yourself the way that I do.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I bet if you cut open my stomach, the black slug of depression would slide out.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I wish gravity would go away and just let us all be a big mess.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I’ll turn into a shadowy static that’s barely there, if you just listen hard enough.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I think he's looking for comfort, but I don't have any to give.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“He knows what he'll find if he digs deeper. there's no rush to unpack my insides. he understands there is nothing special about emptiness, nothing interesting about depression.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Depression is like a heaviness that you can’t ever escape. It crushes down on you, making even the smallest things like tying your shoes or chewing on toast seem like a twenty-mile hike uphill. Depression is a part of you; it’s in your bones and your blood. If I know anything about it, this is what I know: It’s impossible to escape.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“I don't know how to describe it, but the more I stare at him, the more I see his grief wrapped around him like shackles he can never take off.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
“Everything used to seem so final, inevitable, predestined. But now I'm starting to believe that life may have more surprises in store than I ever realized. Maybe it's all relative, not just light and time like Einstein theorized, but everything. Like life can seem awful and unfixable until the universe shifts a little and the observation point is altered, and then suddenly, everything seems more bearable.”
― Jasmine Warga, quote from My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga
Born place: in Cincinnati, Ohio , The United States
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“Aren't the clouds beautiful? They look like big balls of cotton... I could just lie here all day, and watch them drift by... If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations... What do you think you see, Linus?"
"Well, those clouds up there look like the map of the British Honduras on the Caribbean... That cloud up there looks a little like the profile of Thomas Eakins, the famous painter and sculptor... And that group of clouds over there gives me the impression of the stoning of Stephen... I can see the apostle Paul standing there to one side..."
"Uh huh... That's very good... What do you see in the clouds, Charlie Brown?"
"Well, I was going to say I saw a ducky and a horsie, but I changed my mind!”
― Charles M. Schulz, quote from The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 5: 1959-1960
“What is in that word "honor"? What is that "honor"? Air. A trim reckoning. Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible, then? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Therefore, I'll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from King Henry IV, Part 1
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I wasn't holding my breath.”
― Megan Crane, quote from Frenemies
“For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”
― Alan Sillitoe, quote from Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
“And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you’re from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that you’re trying to get to the city of gold, and that’s enough. Come on board, they say. We’ll adjust.”
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