do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you ― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey Public Domain Image via Pixabay
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Quote for Today: Chuck Palahniuk
It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the … Continue reading Quote for Today: Chuck Palahniuk
Quote for Today: A. A. Milne
“Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called. ―A. A. … Continue reading Quote for Today: A. A. Milne
Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
At the bottom of her heart, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar off some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this chance would be, what wind would bring it her, towards … Continue reading Quote for Today: Gustave Flaubert
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. ―Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Image: Open the Door: Hernán Piñera with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Nick Kroll
I think, in storytelling, people want to see triumph, and so it's usually nice to start with failure and see someone somehow rise above it. People like to see people try. And they like to see people fail for comedy, and they like to see people succeed for the drama and emotion. --Nick Kroll Image … Continue reading Quote for Today: Nick Kroll
Quote for Today: Arthur Golden
I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world. ―Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha … Continue reading Quote for Today: Arthur Golden
