If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
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Nayyirah Waheed
Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you...
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Paula Hawkins
They know that tragedy is not glamorous. They know it doesn't play out in life as it does on a stage or between the pages of a book. It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. Its horrors are not attributable to...
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E. Lockhart
In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons.
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Vic Johnson
Parla come magni, ' It means, 'Speak the way you eat, ' or in my personal translation: 'Say it like you eat it.' It's a reminder - when you're making a big deal out of explaining something, when you're searching for the right words -...
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Elizabeth Gilbert
More Quotes By Gail Carriger
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.
The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.
I think we seldom regret the risks we take as much as the times we did not try at all.
I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?" Floote raised a tentative hand." Ah, yes, thank you, Floote.""There is also Mrs Tunstell, madam, " he offered hopefully, is...
