“You will never again be the person who had never tried tacos, because after you try one that person no longer exists. In a way he'll die, and someone new and more experienced will take his place." And”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“So I squeeze his hand, and it's really warm and hand-shaped, and we walk around the beach, and explore a little”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“If I open up, it gets me, Dad. It gets me, and I don't know if I'm strong enough to stand it.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“Life just gets better. Which is not to say that it's always easy.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“I am worthy. I am enough. Safe. Secure. Worthy. Enough.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“I am a whole, complete person, worthy just as I am.
And I am enough.”
― quote from That One Kid Who Freaked Out, Or Whatever
“- ¿Pero tú de qué lado estás? ¿Me apoyas o no?
- Hasta la muerte y más allá”
― Laura Gallego García, quote from The Valley of the Wolves
“The ball I threw while playing in the park has not yet reached the ground.”
― Dylan Thomas, quote from Collected Poems
“And, before long, he'd got fat and his stall was decked out with chrome and plate glass, and glittering automats had been installed. Getting hog-fat on pfennigs, getting bossy though only a few months before he'd been forced to obsequiously lower the price of a lemonade by two pfennigs, meanwhile whispering anxiously, 'But don't tell anyone else.'
No feelings would come to him as he went rocking on in No. 11 through the old town, the new town, past allotment gardens and gravel pits to Blessenfeld. He had heard the names of the stops four thousand times: Boisserée Street, North Park, Bleisscher Station, Inner Ring. They sounded strange, the names, as if out of dreams which others had dreamed and vainly tried to let him share; they sounded like calls for help in a heavy fog, while the almost empty streetcar went on toward the end of the line in the afternoon summer sun.”
― Heinrich Böll, quote from Billiards at Half-Past Nine
“Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.”
― Guy Debord, quote from The Society of the Spectacle
“Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong”
― Frank W. Abagnale, quote from Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
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