"…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything.
If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present
and plan properly for the future." — Chaim Potok

i just don't know if i want to do it anymore-
get close to someone so they can leave again
-one tree hill

what do i wear in bed?
why, chanel No.5, of course
-marilyn monroe

you're not just a phase.

if you want something, don't wish for it.
life is too short to wait -stephen hines

“Which is the most universal human characteristic,
fear or laziness?”-Waking Life

Girls do not dress for boys.  They dress for themselves,
and of course, eachother.  If girls dressed for boys,
they'd just walk around naked at all times- BETSEY JOHNSON

Now I do as I please and lie through my teeth
Someone might get hurt, but it won’t be me

Don't feel stupid if you do not like
what everyone else pretends to love
-patrick mimran

“Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way
that they could never go back to the innocence
that they had before.” — Zooey Deschanel

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
That's the single most important thing you can do.
It's staggering when you think about it.
Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot:
ecology, famine, cruelty- Paul McCarthy

I swear, by my life and my love of it,
that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine. [Ayn Rand]

"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing
is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
— Barbara Kingsolver

don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you
figure out what you have to say. it's the one and only thing
you have to offer-Barbara Kingslver

I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous,
borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me
that you're okay with that, because it's who I am,
and you're what I need.— Jeaniene Frost

 
"I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people
who aren't good for you." — Augusten Burroughs (Dry: A Memoir)

you deserve to need me, not to have me.-running with scissors

sometimes the right thing feels all wrong
until it's over and done with-alice hoffman

"What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy
will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it.
And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever."
— Emily Giffin

"Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party
you wouldn’t be seen dead at."~ William E Bill Vaughan

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe,
shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
-John Jakes

Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try
to block them out, and a lie is always a lie,
no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they’re opened, 
can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it’s been lost,
can never be won back. -Alice Hoffman, Blue Diary

Life is hard enough as it is without choosing someone
difficult to share it with.
-He’s Just Not That Into You

"I think there is something beautiful in revelling in sadness.
The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be.
So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided.
It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid.
But feeling anything is good, I think.
Maybe that’s sadistic of me." -Joseph Gordon-Levitt

i learned too late that to leave it not the same as
being left but for some reason it feels the same
-playground; jennifer saginor

This is my report on the importance of knowing how to read.
If you can’t read and you get a love letter, you won’t know what it says.
That would be very sad. Although in the long run,
it also could save you a lot of trouble.-Charles Schultz

People used what they called a telephone because
they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.
-Chuck Palahniuk

you've got me all wrong, but you've got me.

I want to know what you see when you look at me.”
His fingers dug into my shoulders.
“I want to know your favorite Stooge and the hour you were born
and the thing that scares you more than anything else in the world.
I want to be there when you wake up.-Jodi Picoult

I'll smile and you'll wave. We'll pretend it's ok.

don't ask what the world needs. ask what  makes you come alive
and go do it. because what the world needs
is people who have come alive-howard thurman

the best conversations you will ever have will happen
on a front porch just before dawn.
You will be wearing your socks cut off shorts
and wondering if you should hold out for breakfast
-Dallas Clayton

Now that I can see you, I don't think you're worth a second glance.

I had always been in love with him.
I counted the lashes of each closed eye.
He had been my almost, my might have been,
and I did not want to leave him.
-Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones