Lick My Lit

Quotes I like from books I read. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Since it was no great thing either way, I finally decided to forget it, and, as you see, I didn't.

Norman Maclean, “A River Runs Through It” from A River Runs Through it and Other Stories

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One man's faith is another man's delusion.

Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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In the absence of conviction, I've come to terms with the fact that uncertainty is simply part of the bargain - which doesn't strike me as something to lament. Accepting the essential inscrutability of existence, in any case, is preferable to its opposite: capitulating to the tyranny of intransigent belief.

Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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I don't know what God is, or what God had in mind when the universe was set in motion. In fact, I don't know if God even exists, although I confess that I sometimes find myself praying in times of great fear, or despair, os astonishment at a display of unexpected beauty.

Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane-as a means of inciting evil, to borrow the vocabulary of the devout-there may be no more potent force than religion.

Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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There is a dark side to religious devotion that is too often ignored or denied. As a means of motivating people to be cruel or inhumane, there may be no more potent force than religion. When the subject of religiously inspired bloodshed comes up, many Americans immediately think of Islamic fundamentalism, which is to be expected in the wake of 911. But men have been committing heinous acts in the name of God ever since mankind began believing in deities, and extremists exist within all religions. Muhammad is not the only prophet whose words have been used to sanction barbarism; history has not lacked for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, and even Buddhists who have been motivated by scripture to butcher innocents. Plenty of these religious extremist have been homegrown, corn-fed Americans.

Jon Krakauer, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith

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there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you

Rupi Kaur, “the healing” from milk and honey

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do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you

Rupi Kaur, “the healing” from milk and honey

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you will stand there naked with half of them still hidden somewhere inside you and sob. asking them why they did it. why they forced you to love them when they had no intention of loving you back and they'll say something along the lines of i just had to try. i had to give it a chance. it was you after all. but that isn't romantic. it isn't sweet. the idea that they were so engulfed by your existence they had to risk breaking it for the sake of knowing they weren't the one missing out. your existence meant that little next to their curiosity of you.

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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you cannot leave and have me too i cannot exist in two places at once -when you ask if we can still be friends

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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even after the hurt the loss the pain the breaking your body is still the only one i want to be undressed under

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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i will not have you build me into your life when what i want is to build a life with you - the difference

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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the abused and the abuser - have been both

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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you were the most beautiful thing i'd ever felt till now. and i was convinced you'd remain the most beautiful thing i'd ever feel. do you know limiting that is. to think at such a ripe age i'd experienced the most exhilarating person i'd ever meet. how i'd spend the rest of my life just settling. to think i'd tasted the rawest form of honey and everything else would be refined and synthetic. that nothing beyond this point would add up. that all the years beyond me could not combine themselves to be sweeter than you. -falsehood

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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i had to leave i was tired of allowing you to make me feel anything less than whole

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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you don't see the person they are you see the person they have the potential to be you give and give till they pull everything out of you and leave you empty

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey

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when you are broken and he has left you do not question whether you were enough the problem was you were so enough he was not able to carry it

Rupi Kaur, “the breaking” from milk and honey