Literature Quotes

...anxiety was irrational and listening to it was like listening to a child. It's not that they are never right. It's that the correct info is mixed in with a lot of imaginary things, and, like a child, anxiety can't tell the difference between the two.

I think we have to do forbidden things- otherwise we suffocate. But without feeling guilty and instead as an announcement that we are free.

If we could learn not to be afraid, we could live forever.

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before'

The look was one of solemn compassion, It was a look I did not necessarily trust, believing it had little to do with pity or love or sadness. I recognized it in fact as something else completely. The adolescent female's tenderest form of condescension.

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we need them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in.

She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.

I'll think nice things about my wife, she looks so small there under the blanket, a little lump, that's all (death, you take me first, please) this lady needs a gentle space of peace without me).

perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

what bargains we have made we have kept and as the dogs of the hours close in nothing can be taken from us but our lives.

people are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a trivial matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice...

The human heart is like a night bird. Silently waiting for something, and when the time comes, it flies straight toward it.

You shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them.

Time is never wasted if you remember to bring along something to read.

in hell you're always in love with nothing to love, and someone hates you for all the wrong reasons;

I remember when your eyes said love loudly