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[breathestatic]

All time, favourite quotes. Anything at all, poetry, lyrics, etc.

I'm making a book of awesome quotes because I always forget the best words, so if you have any, it would be great to share :]

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[ddddisaster]

"all our days are marked with
unexpected
affronts -- some
disastrous, others
less so
but the process is
wearing and
continuous.
attrition rules.
most give
way
leaving
empty spaces
where people should
be."

- Bukowski

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly." -Rilke

"I treat men more like anthropological specimens than love interests. I don't give out my phone number or make movie dates. I don't want their kisses or their false compliments. I just want their stories. In bars, I let men brush my hand because I want them to tell me about their hometowns and high-school teachers, their punk-pop revival bands and dead-end jobs, their abusive fathers, drug-addicted mother, and sisters in bacterial comas. I am only interested in men as voyeuristic opportunities. In public, I pay attention to the watches they wear, the books they read, the food they pitch into their grocery carts."

- Koren Zailcka, Smashed

"I will never stop trusting extremes. I will always believe that anything worth having is worth having in excess. The good things are worth hoarding until you have a cookie-fat ass, sex-aching loins, joy that fires through you like popping popcorn, or love, the weakness at the sight of some boy that makes your chest ache like indigestion. If it's good for you, it ought to be good for you in any amount, and you should track down every bit of it." - Koren Zailcka, Smashed

"Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself." - Smashed : Story of a Drunken Girlhood - Koren Zailcka

"The anoretic operates under the astounding illusion that she can escape the flesh, and, by association, the realm of emotions." -"Wasted," Marya Hornbacher

"All we are is what we try to get rid of: fat and newspaper and loneliness and cat food cans. And there are going-away people and there are left-behind people, but everyone's secrets are the same."
- CSI

We stand still in bad weather.
We rely on things we know are unreliable,
it feels so good just to rely.
We are relied on.
- Sarah Manguso, "Reverence"

"Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better" - Sydney J. Harris

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to. - Marilyn Ferguson