book quotes & thoughts

[thebooksoflife]

But I really understand why my dad had to leave this house. When he knew my grandma would never find another man because she was through trusting and would never look for anything else because she didn't know how. And when he saw his sister start bringing home younger versions of their stepfather to date. He just couldn't stay. I laid down on his old bed, and I looked through the window at this tree that was probably a lot shorter when my dad looked at it. And I could feel what he felt on the night when he realized that if he didn't leave, it would never be his life. It would be theirs.

The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

I stay because I love you. But I can feel my life slipping through my fingers and I can’t stop it if I stay here. 

[thebooksoflife]

Forgiveness is giving up the idea of a better past.

William Faulkner

[thebooksoflife]

It is truly frightening to realize how little one is conscious in the formation of intimate relationship, how powerful is our programmed desire for what we have known.

What is known is what is sought, even if what is known is wounding.

from my textbook

[thebooksoflife]

cowards, the both of us

[thebooksoflife]

“They say you can’t go home again, bruh, but they’re wrong. It’s not that you can’t, only that you shouldn’t. Sometimes leaving homes the best thing to do, and you shouldn’t stay away like you had sense.”

“Too many memories?”

“Too many ghosts.”

Wet Pain, Taylor MS

[thebooksoflife]

One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star

Friedrich Nietzsche

[thebooksoflife]

“I didn’t want the bastards to see me bleed,” she whispers to her mother.

“Sometimes I’m afraid that they’re going to have to. To understand that you’re a real person,” her mother sobs, clutching her daughter so very, very tightly in her arms.

Beartown, Fredrik Backman

[thebooksoflife]

All those years he suffered. Those were the best years of his life, cause they made him who he was.

Little Miss Sunshine

[thebooksoflife]

I was so carefree. I thought it would go on like that forever. But gradually there was less and less. I ought to come to terms with it. But I can’t.

The End of Loneliness, Benedict Wells

[thebooksoflife]

I made sure nothing was ever calm again, that my mind never had a chance to be still. I threw myself into life the way I did because whenever I sat alone in my room and thought about things, all I wanted to do was cry my eyes out.

The End of Loneliness, Benedict Wells

[thebooksoflife]

I don't think I've hated something so much as me wanting you.

Jasmine Gibson

[thebooksoflife]

I wish I could be as subtle and beautiful. All I know how to do is scream.

Radio Silence, Alice Oseman

or say nothing at all

[thebooksoflife]

I wonder – if nobody is listening to my voice, am I making any sound at all?

Radio Silence, Alice Oseman

[thebooksoflife]

Over and over, I kept thinking I've got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can't.

unknown

[thebooksoflife]

That pull we have, the undertow of the universe always dragging us back towards each other, it has to mean something, don’t you think?

Magnolia Parks The Long Way Home, Jessa Hastings

[thebooksoflife]

“…I had so much fire in me and so many plans...”

Claude Monet

[thebooksoflife]

It’ll pass was the only thing I could tell myself to alleviate the yearning in my gut.

Don’t Be In Love, Liana Cincotti