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literature, film, music, proverbs, & more. beaquote on tumblr. welcome to my apartment.

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Her life was hers to create. She could make any choice she wanted to, as long as she was willing to accept the consequences. Everything was a trade-off. She just had to decide what she wanted. She wasn’t trapped. She was free.

— The Fine Art of Lying, Alexandra Andrews (2026)

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I wouldn’t describe Michael as my favourite, but he’s Michael Caine. An institution. And being an institution will always beat having range.

– Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, a memoir by Brian Cox (2021)

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I feel like life happens to other people, and I drift in and out of their lives without ever making any kind of impact. I want to matter to someone.

– Unsticky, by Sarra Manning (2009)

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Girls like the boys When they act like the girls All they ever wanted was the whole damn world Walking in the wild, wearing bad black leather Singing in the rain in a bad sweater The preacher's son, he taught me how to come Right down to the beach where we can have fun.

– Beaches, Black Honey (2020)

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Depression makes you lousy company. When you meet old mates you’re reminded of previous times when you were together. You avoid happily married couples — you can’t stand the togetherness. And you can feel yourself projecting your bitterness and indifference on to everyone else. However sympathetic people are, there’s something humiliating about disaster. You always feel yourself being pitied or patronized.

— Prudence, by Jilly Cooper (1978)

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I handled you like broken porcelain But really I'm the one that's delicate I handled you like broken porcelain But maybe I'm the one that's breaking.

– Baby Lay Your Head Down, Aly & AJ (2023)

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He liked me because I was tall and pretty. I liked him because he was rich. He just seemed so different from me. Stepping into his world was like visiting some exotic country. I wasn't a gold digger. I was a tourist.

– It's a Mall World After All, Janette Rallison (2006)

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I feel only respect for my husband that he finally left and relief that I can go back to being alone. Finally, he saw the actress that I am. I am not built for intimacy or love. Or friendship.

– The Wildelings, by Lisa Harding (2025)

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You are able-bodied. Earn money to finance your first films. But don't earn it with clerical works in an office. Go out and work as a bouncer in a sex club. Work as a warden in a lunatic asylum. Go out to a cattle ranch and learn how to milk a cow. Earn your money that way, in real life. You do not become a poet by being in a college.

— Werner Herzog

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Oh, things ain't what they used to be, no, no Where did all the blue skies go? Poison is the wind that blows From the north, and south, and east.

— Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), by Marvin Gaye (1971)

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I'll sing for you If you want me to I'll give to you And it's a chance I'll have to take And it's a chance I'll have to break.

– Luna, by The Smashing Pumpkins (1993)

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In our twenties, when there is still so much time ahead of us, time that seems ample for a hundred indecisions, for a hundred visions and revisions—we draw a card, and we must decide right then and there whether to keep that card and discard the next, or discard the first card and keep the second. And before we know it, the deck has been played out and the decisions we have just made will shape our lives for decades to come.

– Rules of Civility, by Amor Towles (2011)

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“I don’t have awkward moments. I have an awkward life, occasionally interrupted by normalcy.”

— Robert Pattinson

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I want you any time or place It turns me on when you make me wait I like when you show up this late.

– Get Over Here, by Aly & AJ (2022)

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There would never be another antagonist more insidious than her own mind.

– The Last Housewife, Ashley Winstead (2022)

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You can't outwit fate by trying to stand on the sidelines and place little side bets about the outcome of life. Either you wade in and risk everything to play the game, or you don't play at all. And if you don't play, you can't win.

– Paradise, by Judith McNaught (1991)