Words

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

[rosefoundation]

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

John Krakauer

[rosefoundation]

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Llyod Alexander

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There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.

Stephen Chbosky

[rosefoundation]

I do not say 'good-bye.' I believe that's one of the bullshittiest words ever invented. It's not like you're given the choice to say 'bad-bye' or 'awful-bye' or 'couldn't-care-less-about-you-bye.' Every time you leave, it's supposed to be a good one. Well, I don't believe in that. I believe against that.

John Green, David Levithan

[rosefoundation]

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: "THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC”

Kurt Vonnegut

[rosefoundation]

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Carl Sagan

[rosefoundation]

Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.

Lemony Snicket

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If we don't end war, war will end us.

H.G. Wells

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

George Orwell

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“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.”

Chuck Palahniuk

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“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

Stephen King

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“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”

Woody Allen

[rosefoundation]

The sensation was scissors and too much to scream, so instead I just started to laugh

The Antlers, Shiva

[rosefoundation]

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.

Jon Stewart

[rosefoundation]

You know we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock "My God, my God—" I said to myself. "It's the Children's Crusade."

Kurt Vonnegut

[rosefoundation]

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person

John Green

[rosefoundation]

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson