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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Testaments

“Love has to end. That's all. And even though everyone knows it, they still fall in love. I guess it's the same with life. We all know it has to end someday, but even so we act as if we're going to live forever. Like love, life is beautiful because it has to to end.”
― Genki Kawamara

“We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

There were stories in the newspapers, of course, corpses in ditches or the woods, bludgeoned to death or mutilated, interfered with, as they used to say, but they were about other women, and the men who did such things were other men. None of them were the men we knew.

The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.”
― Margaret Atwood

“It was heart-shaking. Glorious. Torches, dizziness, singing. Wolves howling around us and a bull bellowing in the dark. The river ran white. It was like a film in fast motion, the moon waxing and waning, clouds rushing across the sky. Vines grew from the ground so fast they twined up the trees like snakes; seasons passing in the wink of an eye, entire years for all I know. . . . Mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time is something which defies spring and water, birth and decay, the good and the bad, indifferently. Something changeless and joyous and absolutely indestructible. Duality ceases to exist; there is no ego, no 'I,' and yet it's not at all like those horrid comparisons one sometimes hears in Eastern religions, the self being a drop of water swallowed by the ocean of the universe. It's more as if the universe expands to fill the boundaries of the self. You have no idea how pallid the workday boundaries of ordinary existence seem, after such an ecstasy.”
― Donna Tartt

“Are you always up this early?' I asked him.
'Almost always,' he said without looking up. 'It's beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs, is what he says. We thought we could do better.

Better? I say, in a small voice. How can he think this is better?

Better never means better for everyone, he says. It always means worse, for some.”
― Margaret Atwood

“To live means: to cry and shout, to love, to do silly things, to feel sadness and joy, to even experience horrible, frightening things...and to laugh.”
― Genki Kawamara

“Possible, impossible. What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
― Margaret Atwood

“That's the truth. I didn't kill Gabriel. He killed me.

All I did was pull the trigger.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“How were we to know we were happy?”
― Margaret Atwood

“I want anything that breaks the monotony, subverts the perceived respectable order of things.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Make them pay you what they would pay a white man”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You know, Theo, one of the hardest things to admit is that we weren't loved when we needed it most. It's a terrible feeling, the pain of not being loved.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Name one hero who was happy."
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be famous AND happy." He lifted an eyebrow. "I'll tell you a secret."
"Tell me." I loved it when he was like this.
"I'm going to be the first." He took my palm and held it to his. "Swear it."
"Why me?"
"Because you're the reason. Swear it."
"I swear it”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf.

I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times.

And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I don't know whether I'm happy or unhappy. But there's one thing I do know. you can convince yourself to be happy or unhappy. It just depends on how you choose to see things.”
― Genki Kawamara

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
― Kurt Cobain

“whatever people say I am, that's what i'm not”
― Arctic Monkeys

“Assuming that all things are equal,
Who'd want to be men of the people,
When there's people like you?”
― Arctic Monkeys

“The nights were mainly made for saying things you can't say tomorrow day.”
― Arctic Monkeys

“Don't believe the hype.”
― Alex Turner

“Find someone who has a life that you want and figure out how they got it. Read books, pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.”
― Lana Del Rey

“I've got a war in my mind”
― Lana Del Rey, Lana Del Rey - Born to Die Paradise Edition | Piano Vocal Guitar Sheet Music & Songbook for Singers and Musicians | 23 Iconic Pop Ballads Transcribed for Piano Players and Vocalists |Artist Collection

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche