Book Babe

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[thejournalsblog]

“Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

[alwaysthewindneverthebird]

i think a lot about when joan didion said “to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect” and i dont know but i think its going to change my life someday

[burnt-bitch]

“I, myself, have always found that if I examine something, it’s less scary. We always had this theory that if you kept a snake in your eye line… the snake wasn’t going to bite you. That’s kind of the way… I feel about confronting pain. I want to know where it is.”

-Joan Didion

[books-n-quotes]

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence…”

— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince

[quotespile]

“Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

— Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

[shisasan]

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own [originally published 1929]

[bookcatbabe]

"There are mysteries that may never be solved no matter how hard we try. And if we try too hard trying to solve them, we may miss what's right in front of us."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"Regardless of what else he is, he is still a child, as they all are. And don't all children deserve to be protected? To be loved and nurtured so that they may grow and shape the world to make it a better place? In that way, they are no different than any other child in the village, or beyond. But they are told that they are, by people such as yourselves, and people who govern them and our world. People who put rules and restrictions in place to keep them separate and isolated. I don't know what it will take to change that if anything. But it won't start at the top. It'll start with us."

[bookcatbabe]

"We get trapped in our own little bubbles, and even though the world is a wide and mysterious place, our bubbles keep us safe from that. To our detriment." She sighed. "But it's so easy because there is something soothing about routine. Day in and day out, it's always the same. When we're shaken from that, when that bubble bursts, it can hard to understand all that we've missed."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"The world likes to see things in black and white, in moral and immoral. But there is gray in between. And just because a person is capable of wickedness, doesn't mean they will act upon it."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"It's the little things, I expect. Little treasures we find without knowing their origin. And they come when we least expect them. It's beautiful, when you think about it."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"Your voice is a weapon. Never forget that."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"Sometimes our prejudices color our thoughts when we least expect them to. If we can recognize that, and learn from it, we can become better people."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"When something is broken, you can put it back together. It may not fit quite the same, or work like it did once before, but that doesn't mean it's no longer useful."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"Humanity is so weird. If we're not laughing, we're crying or running for our lives because monsters are trying to eat us. And they don't even have to be real monsters. They could be the ones we make up in our heads. Don't you think that's weird?"

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

[bookcatbabe]

"Hate is loud, but I think you'll learn it's because it's only a few people shouting, desperate to be heard. You might not ever be able to change their minds, but so long as you remember you're not alone, you will overcome."

-The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune