“You have only one job as a human: Hold on. That’s it. When life gets terrifying, cruel and unbearable, hold on. Death will come soon enough.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Triplex
“taught us at an early age that love is pain. I”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Triplex
“You have only one job as a human: Hold on. That’s it. When life gets terrifying, cruel and unbearable, hold on. Death will come soon enough.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Triplex
“So long as there is breath in your body, nothing is that bad. Nothing. You must remember that.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Triplex
“I did it because I love you. That doesn’t mean I’m good, it just means I’m weak.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Triplex
“what no one tells you when you’re human is this: So long as there is breath in your body, nothing is that bad. Nothing. You must remember that.” “Okay.”
― Lola St. Vil, quote from The Triplex
“Now is life very solid or very shifting? I am haunted by the two contradictions. This has gone on forever; goes down to the bottom of the world -- this moment I stand on. Also it is transitory, flying, diaphanous. I shall pass like a cloud on the waves. Perhaps it may be that though we change, one flying after another, so quick, so quick, yet we are somehow successive and continuous we human beings, and show the light through. But what is the light?”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from A Writer's Diary
“If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fountain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury")”
― Audre Lorde, quote from Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love...”
― Christa Wolf, quote from The Quest for Christa T.
“To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”
― William Joyce, quote from Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King
“There is no enough.’ Tarin flicked her indicator on, the clicking noise filling the car as she merged on to the motorway. ‘You seem to be forgetting that she’s in a clinical facility getting professional help. Which is great, obviously. Let them worry about how to deal with depression. You’re going to visit your friend, remember? Yes, she’s a patient, but she’s not your patient. So for God’s sake, don’t treat her like one.”
― Sara Barnard, quote from Beautiful Broken Things
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