February 2012
12 posts
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There is anger so powerful that the fist must go through the wall. It is not...
– A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
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I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to...
– A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
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School, meals, and sleep were interruptions to what became our private, untamed...
– A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
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But terror was dulling my vision in a way the darkness couldn’t.
– A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
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Gone was the kind, open expression; now his face was a mirror again. His...
– A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
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‘Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes...
– John Stuart Mill
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Tina’s mother baked a red velvet cake and although I declined a slice,...
– A Wolf at the Table - Augusten Burroughs
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The only way to shut out the hell around her was to bury her head between her...
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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I felt like someone — me? — had fast-forwarded the film of my life, and there I...
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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I endured it. Sex was something I now did because I felt I had to. It was...
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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She put her hands all over me, I didn’t know what she was doing, I touched...
– Extremely Loud and Incredible Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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I wanted to cry but I didn’t cry, I probably should have cried, I should...
– Extremely Loud and Incredible Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
January 2012
13 posts
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Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire. …Pain...
– Women - Charles Bukowski
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When I turned the computer off, I felt overwhelmingly tired. My eyes ached. My...
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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It was like a secret. Something buried in the past. Something no one mentioned....
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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She could not cry. Her fear was so great it seemed to engulf everything else, it...
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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She glanced down at her feet, her cheeks crimson. Maybe she had it all wrong....
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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The mother said nothing, numb with terror. The girl glared at the man, hating...
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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There was something adult about her solemn, hazel gaze, the reflective way she...
– Sarah’s Key - Tatiana de Rosnay
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There was so much sadness in everything, even when things worked.
– Women, Charles Bukowski
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There are people like that — immediately upon meeting them you despise them.
– Women, Charles Bukowski
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I bruise easily.
– Extremely Loud and Incredible Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...
– Extremely Loud and Incredible Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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They seemed to know the same people. I didn’t know any of them. It took a...
– Women, Charles Bukowski
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Monday was my favorite day. Everybody was back on the job and out of sight.
– Women, Charles Bukowski
December 2011
6 posts
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This Internet is your middle finger to the universe, don’t let them break...
– Marilyn Manson
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It is time for their world to be destroyed. It is time for a new age, the Age of...
– Marilyn Manson
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The bus ride to her new school felt all too short for the nervous teenager....
– Trading Pain for Pain — Laura Snow
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Her mom once told her that eyes were the windows into one’s soul and that...
– Trading Pain for Pain — Laura Snow
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Kya wiped the tears from her eyes; she didn’t like to show emotion in...
– Trading Pain for Pain — Laura Snow
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‘Whenever you feel like criticising anyone’, he told me, ‘just...
– The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
November 2011
9 posts
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Taking that pain inside and hiding it behind pain on the outside was all she...
– Trading Pain for Pain - Laura Snow
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She had seen shows on television talking about how people that hurt themselves...
– Trading Pain for Pain - Laura Snow
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The small blade fell from her hand as she finished sliding it down her arm. She...
– Trading Pain for Pain - Laura Snow
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O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
– Livro do Desassossego — Bernardo Soares
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If I’d been someone else in a different world I’d’ve done...
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Extremely Loud and Incredible Close — Jonathan Safran Foer
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t want to invent a thing.
–
Extremely Loud and Incredible Close — Jonathan Safran Foer
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But I still couldn’t figure out what it all meant. The more I found, the...
–
Extremely Loud and Incredible Close — Jonathan Safran Foer
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There was nothing, which could have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue....
–
Extremely Loud and Incredible Close — Jonathan Safran Foer
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Even though it was an incredible sad day, she looked so, so beautiful. I kept...
– Extremely Loud and Incredible Close — Jonathan Safran Foer
October 2011
50 posts
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Deixa-me dormir — só tenho de me levantar às onze. Só se me deres um beijinho. O...
– O Amor é Fodido, Miguel Esteves Cardoso
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As pessoas não são felizes mas sofrem duma doença muito boa, que é a ideia da...
– O Amor é Fodido, Miguel Esteves Cardoso
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As coisas acontecem ao mesmo tempo — é quando telefona o melhor amigo que o...
– O Amor é Fodido, Miguel Esteves Cardoso
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Teresa. São nove da noite. Mais um dia. Tudo correu mal, menos o amor. A vida é...
– O Amor é Fodido, Miguel Esteves Cardoso
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Qualquer rosto é mais bonito que o meu. Quando estou sozinho, o que é raro, faço...
– O Amor é Fodido, Miguel Esteves Cardoso
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A morte mata mais do que se pensa. Os mortos levam quase tudo com eles. Diz-se...
– O Amor é Fodido, Miguel Esteves Cardoso
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(…) suplico-te que acabes com os teus galanteios e me deixes entregue à...
– Romeu e Julieta, Shakespeare
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Romeu, a estima que eu tenho por ti não me dá outro termo melhor do que este: és...
– Romeu e Julieta, Shakespeare
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A dor que absorve na solidão poderá dissipar-se na companhia de alguém. Agora...
– Romeu e Julieta, Shakespeare
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Espera que eu já te vou aplicar no toutiço a adaga do reles criado. Não estou...
– Romeu e Julieta, Shakespeare