“We do not choose what happens to us. We can only choose what we do after. What we do now. We can only choose to keep going.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Maybe that's why we used to get along so well - we both enjoyed lounging around in our own chaos.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“And we clung to each other like we were drowning because, in a way, we were.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Sea, give me a break. It's always been you.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“They do not disappear when they die. They leave us their strength.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“He looked at me like I just told him the earth was flat and I had definitive proof.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Yeah, I do. Sometimes I worry my memories will fade without them.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Reflecting your current reality. Dreams are fasinating, aren't they? Portholes into the subconscious.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Of course,' Spider said. 'I'd bring you Popsicles and cheesy celebrity magazines.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
“Spider had that easy way about him that people who have never had anything bad happen to them seem to possess.”
― Heidi R. Kling, quote from Sea
Heidi R. Kling
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“We're in this together, right?" he whispers. "You and me? You want to be here, yeah?" There's guilt in his questions. "Yes," I reply. "I chose this." Day pulls me close enough for our noses to touch. "I love you.”
― Marie Lu, quote from Prodigy
“The old men say the earth only endures. You spoke truly. You are right.”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“I have read so many books. And yet, like most Autodidacts, I am never quite sure of what I have gained from them. There are days when I feel I have been able to grasp all there is to know in one single gaze, as if invisible branches suddenly spring out of no where, weaving together all the disparate strands of my reading. And then suddenly the meaning escapes, the essence evaporates and no matter how often I reread the same lines they seem to flee ever further with each subsequent reading and I see myself as some mad old fool who thinks her stomach is full because she's been reading the menu.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from 1Q84
“--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from Jude the Obscure
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