Pages & Quotes

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Some people come to your life when you were never looking for them.

[debbie-sketch]

Cozy Room Commission 

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[the-bookshop]

Source.

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You do not know how fast you have been running, how hard you have been working, how truly exhausted you are, until somewhat stands behind you and says, “It’s OK, you can fall down now. I’ll catch you.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo.

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We always think there's enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like 'if'.

- Fredrik Backman, A Man called Ove

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She just smiled, said that she loved books more than anything, and started telling him excitedly what each of the ones in her lap was about. And Ove realised that he wanted to hear her talking about the things she loved for the rest of his life.

- Fredrik Backman, A man called Ove.

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Passion is…it’s fire. And fire is great, man. But we’re made of water. Water is how we keep living. Water is what we need to survive.

- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six

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I want to walk on these streets forever, barefoot. 😊

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There were a lot of teenage girls that wanted to grow up and be me in the late seventies. I was keenly aware of that. But the only reason people thought I had everything is because I had all the things you can see. I had none of the things you can’t see.

- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six.

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“A hope like You.” It was such a sad love song. About wanting somebody you can’t have and knowing you are going to want them anyway.

- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six.

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Confidence is being okay being bad, not being okay being good.

- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six.

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[wedarkacademia]

“You’re not a monster,” I said. But I lied. What I really wanted to say was that a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.”

— Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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I don’t believe in soul mates anymore and I’m not looking for anything. But if I did believe in them, I’d believe your soul mate was somebody who had all the things you didn’t, that needed all the things you had. Not somebody who’s suffering from the same stuff you are.

- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six.

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No crowd cheering, no magazine cover ever made me feel even remotely as important as Camila. And I think the same goes for her. I really do. She liked having a man who wrote songs about her and carried her to bed.

- Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six.

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