“Relationships are about sacrifice and compromise. Sometimes, to have the person you want, you have to give up ideals that are important only because society tells us they are.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“You look at me, not him. As someone who loves him, it’s my responsibility to protect him from people who hurt him when he can’t bring himself to do it. As long as I’m in Randy’s life, this version of you isn’t welcome.” Randy”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“You’re a beautiful man with a beautiful heart.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“I guess it’s her prerogative if she only wants it doggy-style this weekend.” The kid behind the counter coughs. I”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“I’m Lily’s boyfriend. She lives with me. In my house.”
I need to get a handle on this jealousy.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“She clasps her hands behind my neck.
“It’s your turn to take what you need, baby.”
So I do. Because she lets me. Because I love her. Because she loves me back.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“For the love of broken beavers, do you two ever take a break?”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“Loving you is the best choice I ever made.”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“I’m Lily’s boyfriend. She lives with me. In my house.” Lily”
― Helena Hunting, quote from Pucked Under
“GOOD GERMANS
You took me to your family
You warned me well before
That your father is a fascist
And your mother is a whore
I was kind of disappointed
I was bored to elll the truth:
Your folks they're just Good Germans
but you, you're Hitler Youth
So I'm going to live in China
Where you get a better deal
Where your killer is a poet
And your comrade is a girl
-1973”
― Leonard Cohen, quote from Book of Longing
“All the men send you orchids because they're expensive and they know that you know they are. But I always kind of think they're cheap, don't you, just because they're expensive. Like telling someone how much you paid for something to show off.”
― Winifred Watson, quote from Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love. —Mother Teresa EVERYONE”
― Aleatha Romig, quote from The Consequences Series Box Set
“That night I slept badly, thrashing about in my bed, not quite asleep and not quite awake. At times I had the feeling there was someone else in my bedroom who was talking to me, but of course I could not deal with this perception in any realistic way, since I was half-asleep and half-awake, and thus, for all practical purposes, I was out of my mind.”
― Thomas Ligotti, quote from Teatro Grottesco
“When every link to the outside world is severed, time has no meaning. It ceases to exist other than as a dull memory, a vague recollection of what a minute used to be, an hour, a day. Sealed up tight so far beneath the ground, every single second was stretched out almost to infinity—each one a vast and empty abyss where time used to reign, an ageless aeon barren of significance and consequence.
When every scrap of light and sound has been taken away, reality has no meaning. It too ceases to exist, for what is reality other than the cumulation of senses—images witnessed by our own eyes and the noises that enter through our ears? But when all those senses are starved, then the real world fades away like the last frantic gasp of a television program when the set is switched off.
And when reality goes, sanity has no reason. How can your ability to behave in a normal and rational way still exist when nothing normal or rational remains? As soon as reality breaks, as soon as we are separated from the physical world, the cracks begin to appear in our minds. And through them seeps the madness that has always been there, flowing into your skull like a liquid nightmare.”
― Alexander Gordon Smith, quote from Solitary
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