Not every sorry deserves an “it’s okay” in return
“I keep waiting to be treated badly. Does anyone else do this? Literally every day I think, Today is the day when things will change, when I will overstay my emotional welcome, when this person will decide that treating me well is beyond what I deserve. Every nicety, every act of kindness feels like something I need to lock in a vault. It all makes me realize that my threshold for being treated decently was desperately low for like, all of my adult life. I am full of great advice and lofty standards for my friends. Do this, don’t put up with that. When it comes to myself, it’s like, well, you’re garbage so the rules aren’t the same for you. I get mad at myself when I realize this, when I realize how passive I can be, how I try to be invisible in my own life, how I try to not take up space or require anyone else’s attention or energy.”
— Roxane Gay, “The Kale Was Talking Shit to Me”
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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
— Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (via books-n-quotes)
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“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
— Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise: A Play (via books-n-quotes)
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“As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.”
— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (via books-n-quotes)
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extramadness
“It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.”
— Ann Patchett (via quotemadness)
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“…And if we won’t burn together, I’ll burn alone.”
— Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction (via books-n-quotes)
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“I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again —”
— Georgia O’Keeffe, in a letter to Russel Vernon Hunter, from Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via wordsnquotes)
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“Everyone thinks I’m showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I’m silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I’m tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should…”
— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (via books-n-quotes)
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“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via books-n-quotes)
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“But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.”
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (via books-n-quotes)
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