“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
“How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.”
― John Grisham, quote from A Painted House
“Her eyebrows were so blonde they were almost invisible, making it difficult for her to look angry, apologetic or quizzical.”
― Joe Dunthorne, quote from Submarine
“I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, comprenez-vous? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well.”
― Nikki Sex, quote from Abuse
“...And yet a knowledge
is here that tenses the throat
as for song: the inheritance
of the ones, alive or once
alive, who stand behind
the ones I have imagined,
who took into their minds
the troubles of this place,
blights of love and race,
but saw a good fate here
and willingly paid its cost,
kept it the best they could,
thought of its good,
and mourned the good they lost.
(From the ending of Where in Clearing, p179)”
― Wendell Berry, quote from The Collected Poems, 1957-1982
“A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, quote from At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
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