“The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“How can you still love me after everything I’ve done to you?” “How can I not? You’re the fucking love of my life. You don’t stop loving someone just because they’ve hurt you. Yes, what you did hurt me, but I gain nothing if I stay angry with you. But I might gain everything by forgiving you. You’re my everything. I just want you back.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You’re my mess, and that makes you a beautiful mess,”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You’re mine, and a piece of you will always belong to me the same way a piece of me will always belong to you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Why? Why do you have to leave?” “Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Are you okay?” he whispers as he kisses my neck and I nod hastily. “Good ‘cause I’m about to wreck you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Most people think that they want spacious homes, but they don’t realize how the emptiness of a large room just amplifies the emptiness in a broken heart. And we’re all broken, in one way or another.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“I’m going to take my time and you’re going to like it.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You don't stop loving someone just because they've hurt you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“You may not be mine anymore, but I'm still lucky to have you in my life.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“It's funny that when the one person you live for is ripped out of your life you can still find a way to convince yourself it's for the best and that you will eventually get over it.
What a joke.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“Most people think that they want spacious homes, but they don't realize how the emptiness of a large room just amplifies the emptiness in a broken heart.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“No one knows how to love me like you and no one knows how to hurt me like you.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
“sometimes being alone is more desirable than being in a roomful of people who aren’t there.”
― Cassia Leo, quote from Pieces of You
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“My body was a Pandora’s box of aches and pains. When Grandpa died all the ailments came jumping out. I was forever twitching and shaking. I had a persistent sore throat and had difficulty swallowing except when I was taking nips from my illicit cocktail. I was constantly constipated, holding everything in — a disorder that had started when I was two years old. It burned when I passed urine, and my migraines were so severe it felt on occasions as if I were going blind.”
― quote from Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you; that everybody is impressed in your favor and inclined to be of your opinion; that you have only to pass through a street or to show yourself at a balcony to make friends and to win mistresses from among those who look upon you. What a splendid, what a magnificent gift is that which spares you the need to be amiable in order to be loved, which relieves you of the need of being clever and ready to serve, which you must be if ugly, and enables you to dispense with the innumerable moral qualities which you must possess in order to make up for the lack of personal beauty.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Mademoiselle de Maupin
“All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems... But all these stars are silent. You-You alone will have stars as no one else has them... In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars will be laughing when you look at the sky at night..You, only you, will have stars that can laugh! And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me... You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure... It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz
“Principles of design:
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.”
― Donald A. Norman, quote from Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Revised)
“I check my phone messages and email about forty-five times a day. I don’t even know what I’m expecting to get in these messages. Maybe Visa will call and say, “We just realized that we owe you money!” or I’ll get an email from a high school classmate that says, “We’ve reconsidered and we’ve decided you were cool after all.” Whatever”
― quote from Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
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