I told my mother he looked like a deflated balloon. Greta said he looked like a small gray moth wrapped in a spider's web. That's because everything about Greta is more beautiful, even the way she says things.
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am...
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Audre Lorde
I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.
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John Green
Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in process.
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Sue Grafton
The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
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Sebastian Faulks
More Quotes By Carol Rifka Brunt
Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.
Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.
I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away.
You know, Junie, you're fourteen now. I think you can certainly manage to put together a sandwich..The thing is, if my mother had any idea what I had in my backpack, she would have made me that sandwich. If she knew that I'd searched and...
That's the difference between you and Greta. She has better things to do. She gets involved in clubs, activities. She has friends. But you? You slump around in that room of yours--
