eat.books

(metaphorically)

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I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

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Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there. Like Sam said. Because its okay to feel things. Be who you are about them.

~Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of being a Wallflower

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“If we are not sad when we part, we must have done something lovely.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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Gosh ❤️

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“A man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.”

— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns

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From Looking for Alaska by John Green

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“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

— Kurt Vonnegut (via quotemadness)

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You can kill a man with those words.

No gun.

No bullets.

Just words and a girl.

***

My arms are killing me.

I didn't know words could be so heavy.

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Sometimes people are beautiful.

Not in looks.

Not in what they say.

Just in what they are.

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And that's when I realise.

In a sweet, cruel, beautiful moment of clarity, I smile, watch a crack in the cement, and speak to Audrey and the sleeping Doorman. I tell them what I’m telling you:

I’m not the messenger at all.

I’m the message.

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~Markus Zuzak, I am the Messenger.

PS, he writes like a poem but not quite, simple words but they sit heavy on your heart so that you carry them around even when you aren't carrying the book. ♥️♥️

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"All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind."

There was a long silence.

"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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♥️♥️ I remember being scared that something must, surely, go wrong, if we were this happy, her and me, in the early days, when our love was settling into the shape of our lives like cake mixture reaching the corners of the tin as it swells and bakes. ♥️♥️

~ Max Porter, Grief is a Thing with Feathers

(Please give it a read, it flowssssss with such raw emotion, you'll cry.)

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Human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to.

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Our minds have been invaded by a war. A war that we have won and lost. The very worst sort of war. A war that captures dreams and re-dreams them. A war that has made us both adore our conquerers and despise ourselves.

***

And once again, the Small Things were said. The Big Things lurked unsaid inside.

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It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain.

~Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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An aunt teaches me how to tell

an edible flower

from a poisonous one.

just in case, I hear her say, just in case.

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I was so much of a lie

I rewrote my family for anyone who listened

~Fatimah Asghar, If They Come for Us

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I am Ubik. Before the Universe was, I am. I made the suns. I made the worlds. I created the lives and the places they inhabit. I move them here, I put them there. They go as I say, they do as I tell them. I am the word and my name is never spoken, the name which no one knows. I am called Ubik, but that is not my name. I am. I shall always be.

~Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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None of this is mine. My father is not mine - not in that way. His death and what he's done are not mine. Nor are my upbringing nor my town nor it's tragedies.

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"We are all feeding from each other, all the time, everyday."

~Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.

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It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.

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Of course it is exhausting having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.

~Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions