"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?"
Chuck Palahniuk
"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
Chuck Palahniuk
I'm Not Lonely, Nikki Giovanni
i’m not lonely
sleeping all aloneyou think i’m scared
but i’m a big girl
i don’t cry
or anythingi have a great
big bed
to roll around
in and lots of space
and i don’t dream
bad dreams
like i used
to have you
were leaving me
anymorenow that you’re gone
i don’t dream
and no matter
what you think
i’m not lonely
sleeping
all alone
"No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they’re doing, even if one of them complains later on that they were used."
Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello
"If you’ve got a hunchback, sprinkle some glitter on it, honey, and make a feature out of it."
James St. James
"The last three decades of this century have witnessed the ignition of the most significant internal conflict ever to engage the human species. It is not the struggle between capitalism and communism or between any other set of ‘isms’. It is the conflict between those who possess the means and will to exploit the living world to destruction, and those who are banding together in a desperate and last-ditch attempt to prevent the New Juggernaut from trashing our small planet."
Farley Mowat
"Happiness is a hound dog in the sun. We are not here to be happy but to experience great and wonderful things."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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M. F. K. Fisher
"Eat breakfast as a king, lunch as a citizen, and dinner as the beggar on the corner."
Hungarian proverb
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
William Dement