“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”
“Love is never convenient-and rarely painless”
“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
“We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.”
“We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside”
“I don't want to go to Peru."
How do you know? You've never been there."
I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.”
“such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour”
“Днес чух една американска тийнейджърка да казва, че е също толкова ощетена, колкото и нашите деца, защото родителите й можели да й купят само стара кола. Няма по бедни от онези, които не осъзнават изобилието на своя живот.”
“The surest way to minimize your own burdens is to carry someone else's.”
“As much as I have schemed and planned to the contrary, the most central experinces of my life have all been accidents.”
“I'd love to be a writer one day”
“I was just…low maintenance. That was okay with me. I didn’t need attention, didn’t want it. People, especially people my age and especially other girls, made very little sense to me. I didn’t see the value in spending hours in front of a mirror when I could be playing video games, or playing the guitar, or reading a book instead.”
“But I do not wish to fight," declared Ozma, firmly. "No one has the right to destroy any living creatures, however evil they may be, or to hurt them or make them unhappy.”
“I would do anything for him, even if it meant sacrificing something of myself.”
“I will learn your anger. I will lick your sadness.
I will feast on your hunger.”
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