"I want out of the labels. I don’t want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that’s not on the map. A real adventure. A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined."
-Chuck Palahniuk
-Chuck Palahniuk
(Source: corpseclub)
"The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."
-Stephen King
-Stephen King
"Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit it openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within."
-Sigmund Freud (via cordisre)
-Sigmund Freud (via cordisre)
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-Sandra Cisneros | House on Mango Street | excerpt from “My Name” (via evoketheforms)
In English my name means hope. In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting. It is like the number nine. A muddy color. It is the Mexican records my father plays on Sunday mornings when he is shaving, songs like sobbing.
It was my great-grandmother’s name and now it is mine. She was a horse woman too, born like me in the Chinese year of the horse—which is supposed to be bad luck if you’re born female-but I think this is a Chinese lie because the Chinese, like the Mexicans, don’t like their women strong.
-Sandra Cisneros | House on Mango Street | excerpt from “My Name” (via evoketheforms)
"You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too."
-James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
-James Joyce (A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
(Source: talkativolive)
"I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything."
-Virginia Woolf, Night And Day (via acoustic-funeral)
-Virginia Woolf, Night And Day (via acoustic-funeral)
(Source: divine-despair)
"There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else."
-Chuck Klosterman ……
-Chuck Klosterman ……
(Source: slekes)
"‘Don’t ask me anything about the future,’ he said miserably. ‘I don’t know anything. Be with me now, will you, no matter what it is?’"
-D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (via littleampersand)…Tee
-D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (via littleampersand)…Tee
"Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out."
-Zadie Smith, from the novel, On Beauty. (via chrysalises)
-Zadie Smith, from the novel, On Beauty. (via chrysalises)
(Source: askios)
