“Your courage is in your tears. Every time you cry, you lose a little bit more of it. That’s why you’re so breakable. Not because you’re human, because you’re always shedding courage from your eyes.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“You have to fight for the people that you love.
You. Have. To. Fight.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“Where to?” he inquires. “A place called ‘none of your business’ and then I’ll stop at the ‘stay out of my life’ shop and get you a t-shirt.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; It is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside, without her….” —Mark Twain”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“Oh, for a second I thought Donald Trump was a Runner,” I say, laughing at my own stupidity. Miku raises her eyebrows but refuses to say anything. Could it be? Is Trump a Runner?”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“He’s not mine. The only thing that’s truly mine is this bottomless despair.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“So long as I get to hold you, none of it matters.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“Hey, I know you don’t know me but I’m falling for you and I want you to leave your drop-dead gorgeous model slash angel girlfriend and be with me. Oh and by the way, I’m the product of the most evil and horrendous crime a man can ever commit. So… you wanna grab a bite?”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“wash my hands and head out the door. The urge to ditch doesn’t last long. Besides, even if I had ditched class, where would I go? Everyone who cut class today had something fun and exciting to do. Their life had urgency and meaning. My life, on the other hand, is routine and ordinary.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“I am under the influence of some tremendous attraction which I have resisted in vain, and which overmasters me. You could draw me to fire, you could draw me to water, you could draw me to anything I have most avoided…” —Charles Dickens”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“Such a heavy burden, isn’t it?” “It’s”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
“Okay note to self: news of the end of the world is best taken on an empty stomach.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Girl
Lola St. Vil
Born date April 21, 2018
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“Love at first sight is a hypnosis: I am fascinated by an image: at first shaken, electrified, stunned, "paralysed" as Menon was by Socrates, the model of loved objects, of captivating images, or again converted by an apparition, nothing distinguishing the path of enamoration from the Road to Damascus; subsequently ensnared, held fast, immobilised, nose stuck to the image (the mirror). In that moment when the other's image comes to ravish me for the first time, I am nothing more than the Jesuit Athanasius Kirchner's wonderful Hen: feet tied, the hen went to sleep with her eyes fixed on the chalk line, which was traced not far from her beak; when she was untied, she remained motionless, fascinated, "submitting to her vanquisher," as the Jesuit says (1646); yet, to waken her from her enchantment, to break off the violence of her Image-repertoire (vehemens animalis imaginatio), it was enough to tap her on the wing; she shook herself and began pecking in the dust again.”
― Roland Barthes, quote from A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“He needs the Lord, but I think right now God scares him.” Jim exhaled hard. “As if he knows God’s chasing him, and he’s determined to run until he hits a brick wall.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from Reunion
“...and it occurred to me, with the forcefulness of a thought experienced in 360 degrees, that that's really what history mostly is: masses of people doing ordinary things.”
― Bill Bryson, quote from At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“You ain’t the boss of me, sir, you surely ain’t. The only thing you could do right now is kill me, and you still wouldn’t be the boss of me.’ There”
― Terry Pratchett, quote from The Long Earth
“You don't want to fight the enemy anymore?"
"I don't want to fight anyone. I have no enemies. I want to go home.”
― Ágota Kristóf, quote from The Notebook, The Proof, The Third Lie: Three Novels
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A Beautiful Dark
The Black Book
The Iron Butterfly
Beautiful Malice
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