Outstanding Quotes

Cece she/her 24 Discoveries of my literary adventures

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Living 4000 miles from my parents: 🎉🥳🎊😀

Living 4000 miles from my partner, sister, and nephew: 😔💔😭😕

[littlemissihaveaquestion]

Reminder that spring will always come back, music will never stop being created, and there are still so many books left to read! You’re alive! You’re alive! You’re alive!

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Maybe all these things are beautiful and worth having. Listen to the music and you’ll see what I mean. It surged, it was music with wings. Bird Who Soars Music and what it said was nothing bad would ever happen again.

Patrick McCabe, The Butcher Boy

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They say there is good in everyone. If you just give them a chance. And a good boot in the arse.

JP Donleavy, The Ginger Man

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I think I’m weary of my terrifying heart.

JP Donleavy, The Ginger Man

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When you’re a Yank, Mary, only other Yanks are friends.

JP Donleavy, The Ginger Man

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What is your need to come down on yourself? The answer is probably simple. Misery is familiar, and you have learned how to deal with distress. Life going really well is unfamiliar to you, and you don’t know how to manage it. It is not unusual for clients to find a kind of comfort in their poor self image.

Janet Geringer Woititz, Adult Children of Alcoholics

[gyrovagi]

(smugly) actually all narration is unreliable because language can only ever communicate through approximation

[soundcarvings]

I think we should all fuck off. I think we should all go to the library and just fuck off.

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He’d always wanted better words for what it felt like to live, and to suffer, and to love it all so recklessly as to hate how it couldn’t love you back the same.

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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It is a sad thing to let go of. That everything leaves. But life has too many seasons to get caught up about one of them. And other seasons return…

I’m being asked to understand that with some people you love, they just won’t end up being a part of your life. I’m being asked a question that it seems I can answer only by living.

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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The years come no matter what you do to them.

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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I’d taken an idea about second wind for myself. That if you could last through what seemed hardest, you got more, and that there lived somewhere in the body the ability to keep going even though it felt like you no longer could, some reserve of strength and power, to endure, that took its share but not all of you; that you could save some part of you, hidden away in a true place, even from yourself, for when you needed it most— to believe in that felt powerful enough to make it true.

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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I’d started to think of books as beings. As things unto themselves, whether they were written by people countless years ago, or written just recently by strange old white men, the books themselves felt to me as if they were their own lives, separate from the bodies and minds that created them.

Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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A heart is a wonderful thing. It’s big and has the capacity to love many people and many cats… the heart is a miracle and it’s big enough for all it needs to be big enough for. It allows you to miss those you’ve lost and still love those who are with you.

Rachel Wells, Alfie The Christmas Cat

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There aren’t many people who, after taking a long hard look at their life, can simply conclude that all is well and carry on as they were.

Kiyoshi Shigematsu, Blanket Cats