“...You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you'll lose it someday. We lose everything. If you're trying to avoid loss, there's no point in taking another breath, or letting your heart beat one more time. It all ends." His fingers curl around mine. "That's all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“There are moments, when you’re getting to know someone, when you realize something deep and buried in you is deep and buried in them, too. It feels like meeting a stranger you’ve known your whole life.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“I see the lights every night. It seems like the whole world has figured out how to be happy, but no one's letting me in on the secret.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“I respect people who get nerdy as fuck about something they love”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Part of falling in love with someone is actually falling in love with yourself. Realizing that you're gorgeous, you're fearless and unpredictable, you're a firecracker spitting light, entrancing a hundred faces that stare up at you with starry eyes.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“I can't hold on to you. You're like a shooting star. Just a trail of fire in my hands.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“That's another thing about lies: if you convince yourself they're true, they become true. A lie is a discrepancy of belief, not fact.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing. Your body knows precisely how to shape itself around the ache, the hollowness that wants to be filled”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“That is all life is. Breathing in, breathing out. The space between two breaths.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“People know their feelings much sooner than they consciously accept them.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“The only way to cure an obsession is to become obsessed with something else.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“...The thought of how much happiness lay scattered across the universe, unrealized, in fragments, waiting for the right twist of fate to bring it together.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Grow up. This is real. The world is ugly and nasty and fucked up, and so are we.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul and all that jazz.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Why did everything beautiful come from pain?”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“You should love something while you have it, love it fully and without reservation, even if you know you’ll lose it someday.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Are you in love with him?”
I rolled my head on the plank to look at Wesley.
“I don’t think I know what being in love is yet. But this is different than anything I’ve ever felt.”
“What’s it feel like?”
“Remember when you thought I was jumping off to kill myself?”
He winced.
“It’s like that,” I said.
“But no one catches you. You’re just hanging over infinity.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“This is ridiculous," I said, trying to laugh it off. "I never cry at movies."
"Because you've never been in love," he said.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Don’t come here to fuck with my head and play games. You don’t test someone’s love by leaving them.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Thanks, Dad, for leaving a huge void in my life that Freud says has to be filled with dick.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“The brain is an incredible multitasker. At the same time that it’s piercing itself with superheated needles of anguish, it’s ruthlessly making plans, contingencies, plotting out a future, giving zero fucks whether it’ll ever see it. On the day I die, it’ll be calculating what to have for dinner as it bombards itself with pain signals from my amputated legs or my clocked-out heart.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“I'm not over you. I dream about you every night. I watch that fucking video over and over just to hear your voice. Does that make you happy? Is that proof I cared?”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“I can’t be your manic pixie dream girl. I can’t be the girl who teaches you how to open your heart and embrace life and all that bullshit, because I’m trying to figure out how to do that myself. I need a manic pixie dream boy of my own.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Nobody knows how to be a grown-up. We're all just pretending for each other.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“That’s how you know someone loves you. When they want you to be happy even in the part of your life they’ll never see. But right then I was too stuck in the moment, in the visceral pleasure of it all.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“You're so alive, Maise. You're so here, so present in the moment. You've taught me that happiness is possible now, not in some distant future. You'll scale a mountain without a second thought, face your fears, throw yourself into danger, and you're not reckless but bold, proud. You have a lion's heart. You're not afraid to live.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“Our gazes struck like flint and steel. And I realized that gunsmoke smell wasn’t ozone. It was us. We burned.”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
“That was what we'd finally been forced to confront: if our relationship was based on forbiddenness, what would happen when it was no longer forbidden?”
― Leah Raeder, quote from Unteachable
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“All the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottle-neck of the most recent decade of years.”
― William Faulkner, quote from A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
“Live life by the abc's...adventure, bravery and creativity.”
― James Thurber, quote from The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
“To be a warrior a man has to be, first of all, and rightfully so, keenly aware of his own death. But to be concerned with death would force any one of us to focus on the self and that would be debilitating. So the next thing one needs to be a warrior is detachment. The idea of imminent death, instead of becoming an obsession, becomes an indifference.
Now you must detach yourself; detach yourself from everything. Only the idea of death makes a man sufficiently detached so he is incapable of abandoning himself to anything. Only the idea of death makes a man sufficiently detached so he can't deny himself anything. A man of that sort, however, does not crave, for he has acquired a silent lust for life and for all things of life. He knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything, so he tries, without craving, all of everything.”
― Carlos Castaneda, quote from A Separate Reality
“You’re a vampire?”
Shanna’s eyes widened. “No. I’m the same as I ever was.”
“Oh, thank God.” Caitlyn pressed a hand to her chest and collapsed onto the chair. “You scared me to death.”
Shanna smiled. “Relax, sweetie. I’m not a vampire.” She patted her arm. “My husband is.”
― Kerrelyn Sparks, quote from Eat Prey Love
“The second we put a bullet in the head of one of those undead monsters -- the moment one of us drove a hammer into one of their faces -- or cut a head off. We became what we are! And that's just it. THAT's what it comes down to. You people don't know what we are.
We're surrounded by the DEAD. We're among them -- and when we finally give up we become them! We're living on borrowed time here. Every minute of our life is a minute we steal from them! You see them out there. You KNOW that when we die -- we become them. You think we hide behind walls to protect us from the walking dead?
Don't you get it? We ARE the walking dead! WE are the walking dead.”
― Robert Kirkman, quote from The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense
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