“But doesn't love cause too much pain?" she said. "To be worth it?" "It causes pain, indeed," Grumpy said. "But it's worth it. It's a good pain.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes life is just messy no matter what you do," she [Emma] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Believe in yourself. That's real magic.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Sometimes things weren’t all that complicated. We just make them complicated in order to hide from them. “I’m”
― quote from Reawakened
“Evidence doesn't always lead us to the truth," he [August] said.”
― quote from Reawakened
“Don't try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you,”
― August Wilson, quote from Fences
“Freedom isn’t just about getting to make your own choices. It’s about getting to enjoy the life you’re given, to live life to the fullest. That’s the beauty of mortality, of what makes someone human. Time is treasured. The eternal…all they have is time.”
― Courtney Allison Moulton, quote from Shadows in the Silence
“There’s no such thing as an emergency unless I’m losing every penny I have. That’s my only red line, OK? Nothing else fucking qualifies. Not. One. Goddamn. Thing.”
― C.C. Gibbs, quote from All He Needs
“Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it.”
― Mandy Hale, quote from The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
“The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows with long, quivering antennae and fiery, malignant eyes. They were grating their teeth like tobacco worms, and appeared to be dissatisfied about something. I had often heard that these reptiles were in the habit of eating off sleeping sailors' toe nails down to the quick, and I would not get in the bunk any more. I lay down on the floor. But a rat came and bothered me, and shortly afterward a procession of cockroaches arrived and camped in my hair. In a few moments the rooster was crowing with uncommon spirit and a party of fleas were throwing double somersaults about my person in the wildest disorder, and taking a bite every time they stuck. I was beginning to feel really annoyed. I got up and put my clothes on and went on deck.
The above is not overdrawn; it is a truthful sketch of inter-island schooner life.”
― Mark Twain, quote from Roughing It
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