I forgive not because I became a saint, but because I’m tired of hating.

Paulo Coelho (via life-after-survival)

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We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.

Carl Sagan (via nothing-places)

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90% of the time when I go on dates, I find myself thinking ‘I could be reading my book instead.’

Zosia Mamet

And in the beginning, my lungs had too much air in them, whenever you were near, like I could never breathe out enough. And in the end, my throat closed, whenever you were far, like I could never breathe in again.

Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via 4mbivalent)

You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else.

Daniel Franzese (via creatingaquietmind)

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Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.

Tyrion Lannister, A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C. S. Lewis

I’d be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via jusellietokitoinkee)

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To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Anne Rice (via pavorst)

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I’m serious. Husband runs off with a politician — make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor — make good art. IRS on your trail — make good art. Cat exploded — make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you’re doing is stupid or evil or it’s all been done before — make good art.

Neil Gaiman