The Fragile Truth

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Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.

Jon Acuff (via wordsnquotes)

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It’s funny how when you were a kid, a day could last forever. Then you grow up, and all these years just seemed like a blink.

Stephen King, Hearts in Atlantis (via wordsnquotes)

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It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Jorge Luis Borges, A New Refutation of Time (via wordsnquotes)

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You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?

Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes (via wordsnquotes)

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I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster (via wordsnquotes)

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Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

Herman Koch, The Dinner (via wordsnquotes)

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Why do people need to understand everything?

Virginia Woolf, Selected Diaries (via wordsnquotes)

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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything.

Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via wordsnquotes)

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the thing you are most afraid to write. write that.

Nayyirah Waheed (via wordsnquotes)

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I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation.

Stanisław Lem (via wordsnquotes)

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It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness.

Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart (via wordsnquotes)

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It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

Charles Bukowski (via wordsnquotes)

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You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

Alan Moore, V for Vendetta (via wordsnquotes)

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I’m a very private person. You don’t ask, I don’t tell.

Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

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Who made you this way? And do they still matter?

Isaac Writes (via wordsnquotes)

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I always wanted to be somewhere else, I don’t know why.

Hanif Kureishi (via wordsnquotes)

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Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Epictetus (via wordsnquotes)