“People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“If there's one thing I learned from the playlist, it's how important listening to people can be. I”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“You okay?” he asked.
“Doing great,” I said. Guess I was a liar after all.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“We both learn way more on our own than we do at school, and we're more interested in things we find for ourselves.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“..., and I went back to my old habit of walking the halls looking down most of the time. It was different now, though—before I’d done it without thinking, because I didn’t know another way. Now I was actively avoiding a life I knew might be out there. But it was my choice.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“Look, it’s true that I think there are a lot of people to blame for all of this, but I’m one of them.” For a second, my mind flashed back to the party, to the last words I’d ever said to him. Fuck you, Hayden. Some kind of best friend I was. “And it’s not my job to decide who should pay.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“But loneliness is a thing that has weight, and it gets heavier over time.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“But I couldn’t block out the sound of his voice. “Hayden wasn’t the son I expected to have,” he said. “I’d imagined playing catch in the yard, watching football on the weekends, going fishing. The things I’d done with my dad; the things I do with Ryan. It was the only kind of relationship I knew how to have with a son.” His voice cracked. “But my second son didn’t enjoy any of those things. He loved music and video games and computers. I didn’t know how to talk to him. And now I’ll spend the rest of my life wishing I’d learned how.” He lowered his head, as if he were trying to hide the fact that he was crying.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“If there's one thing I learned from the playlist, it's how important listening is to people can be.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“I would never understand how hurt and confused and hopeless he must have felt, to decide it wasn't worth trying, and I wasn't mad at him anymore for doing it...”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“People are going to say a lot of things. And some of it will be helpful, and some of it will be annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. But they're saying it because people said those things to them, or because they found it helpful when they lost someone. They mean well." -Mr. Beaumont-”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“Lots of people want to be invisible. Maybe they even think they can pretend to be. But someone always sees." -Archmage_Ged-”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
“People are going to say a lot of things. and some of it will be helpful and some of it will be
annoying, and lots of it will get on your nerves. but they're saying it because people said those things to them, or because they found it helpful when they lost someone they mean well.”
― Michelle Falkoff, quote from Playlist for the Dead
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“She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.”
― Raymond Chandler, quote from The Big Sleep
“Once upon a time, powerful wizard, who wanted to destroy an entire kingdom, placed a magic potion in the well from which the inhabitants drank. Whoever drank that water would go mad.
The following morning, the whole population drank from the well and they all went mad, apart from the king and his family, who had a well set aside for them alone, which the magician had not managed to poison. The king was worried and tried to control the population by issuing a series of edicts governing security and public health. The policemen and the inspectors, however, had also drunk the poisoned water, and they thought the king’s decisions were absurd and resolved to take notice of them.
When the inhabitants of the kingdom heard these decrees, they became convinced that the king had gone mad and was now giving nonsensical orders. The marched on the castle and called for his abdication.
In despair the king prepared to step down from the throne, but the queen stopped him, saying: ‘Let us go and drink from the communal well. Then we will be the same as them.’
And that was what they did: The king and queen drank the water of madness and immediately began talking nonsense. Their subjects repented at once; now that the king was displaying such ‘wisdom’, why not allow him to rule the country?
The country continued to live in peace, although its inhabitants behaved very differently from those of its neighbors. And the king was able to govern until the end of his days.”
― Paulo Coelho, quote from Veronika Decides to Die
“She had rooms in her mind that she would not look into.”
― Wallace Stegner, quote from Angle of Repose
“Beth wrapped her arms around Wrath's waist and leaned into her hellren's body. Their black hair mixed together, his straight, hers wavy. God, Wrath's was so damn long now. But word was that Beth liked the stuff so he'd grown it out for her.
V wiped his mouth again. Weird, how males do shit like that.”
― J.R. Ward, quote from Lover Revealed
“You can hold on to me for as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie".
- Eric, Club dead.”
― Charlaine Harris, quote from Club Dead
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