A listing of quotes, and sometimes .gifs, ranging from TV shows and movies we’ve watched, books we’ve read, and more.
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Best Of To me, tolerance just says, ‘I’m going to stomach your right to be different but if you disappear I’m no worse off or better off.’ Cory Booker (Real Time with Bill Maher – 3/25/2016) I wanted to make sure that people […] knew that I was there to be a workhorse and not…
Best Of They want you to have an Instagram and not a twitter. They want to see you, not hear you. “Amerie (5/19/2016) – Spoke by Charlamagne tha God.” The Breakfast Club Here is the interesting thing […] no matter what, when you have a male and a female in a relationship, it’s either that…
Best of It’s easy to recognize your truth in retrospect. What’s hard is being true in the moment. — Imperial Dreams An old lifer once told you, ‘All men suffer loss.’ But you know now that not all losses are the same. Only the ones that stop you from ever fighting again make you…
Best Of Belief is half of all healing. — A Monster Calls What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. It feels shameful and alarming, and over time these feelings radiate outwards, making the lonely person increasingly isolated,…
Best of [In response to those who say slavery was a long time ago, you need to get over it, etc] This is what I say to those people, ‘To argue that is to say effects don’t matter. To say that effects don’t compound. Everything that happens in the world has an effect. […] So…
In this post, you’ll find quotes from the ABC show Forever.
Best of Most people are good with their bodies or their minds but not both. — “First Contact, Part Three.” Everything, Everything Our bodies are having their own conversation separate and apart from us. Is this the difference between friendship and something else? This awareness that I have of him? — “Forecast.” Everything, Everything I…
Best Of […] the natural inclination of adults is to devalue the dreams of kids who express an interest in pursuing the arts. Let a kid show any kind of special aptitude for math or science, and the world will move mountains to put him in programs that stimulate his gift. The same goes for…
Best Of […] what I look for in a friend: Loyalty and trust. The challenge to be a better me. The space to be unapologetically rough, rugged, and raw. I’m not biting my tongue around them, and while I know they won’t judge, I can trust them not to tell me what they think I…
In this post, you’ll find quotes collected during the month of October 2016.
Best of […] a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient’s distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. — Hurry Down Sunshine | Page – 104 […] the same words that her eyes could not decipher on the page, her tongue, freed from the fixed symbols of language, mastered…
Best Of (On Kurt Cobain) […] I think there’s no getting around that twenty-something roadblock. That point in your life […] when [you] have to take a massive reality check. You finally have to face the fact that things are never going to be the way you thought they would be. It’s at this point…
Best Of Truth is, among low-wage earners busting their tails to make the rent, one’s feelings are seldom discussed or acknowledged. Emotional wellness is a First World luxury. “Chapter 3: Underground.” In The Country We Love (My Family Divided) – Page 37 In immigrant communities all over the globe, celebrating is part of the culture….
People don’t mix races; they abandon them or pick them.” — “Tar Baby.” Toni Morrison “It was a silly age, twenty-five; too old for teenaged dreaming, too young for settling down. Every corner was a possibility and a dead end. Work? At what? Marriage? Work and marriage? Where? Who? What can I do with this…
“[…] my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else’s. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain’t that something? A secondhand lonely.” — Sula Peace – Sula: Page 143 “The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over.” — Toni Morrison – Sula –…
“She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her strength life demanded of her and the humor which to live it.” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon, p.307 “Slave names don’t bother me; but slave status…
“[…] sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.” — Mr. Bill – Page 24 – Perks of Being a Wallflower “Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it’s no excuse.” — Dad – Page 28 – Perks of Being a Wallflower “[…] I think it’s bad when the…
Year of Yes Chapter by Chapter Review Best of In public, I smiled. A lot. I did a HUGE amount of smiling. And I did what I called “Athlete Talk.” […] Athlete Talk is when the athlete goes before the press and keeps a smile on her face, voice bland and pleasant as she deftly…
Best of I realized that leaving wouldn’t be like I had imagined, like casting off a weight. Their memory was something tangible and heavy, and I would carry it with me. — “Chapter 11.” Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Best Of “Nothing before you counts, and I can’t even imagine an after.” — “Chapter 40.“ Eleanor & Park – Page 184 “I love your name. I don’t want to cheat myself out of a single syllable.” — Park – “Chapter 19.” Eleanor & Park – Page 89
Quotes from Maya Angelou’s books: A Song Flung Up to Heaven, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, Heart of a Woman and more.
Best of […] it is a sad truth in life that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed. — Bad Beginning (Page 34)
In this post, you will find a collection of quotes from the Thirteen Reasons Why (Th1rteen R3asons Why or 13 Reasons Why) franchise. I hope you’ll enjoy what you find.
“Living by other people’s definitions and perceptions shrinks us to shells of ourselves, rather than complex people embodying multiple identities.” — Redefining Realness: Chapter 18 “New York, 2009” – Page 249 “I could no longer maintain the shiny, untarnished, unattainable facade of that dream girl. […] In mere moments, through the intimate act of storytelling,…
“[…] lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. Lives fall apart when the foundation upon which they were built needs to be relaid. Lives fall apart, not because God is punishing us for what we have or have not done. Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they…
Best Of “It was right then […] that I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls’ bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to should to the…
Best Of “Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen: these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel starts to crack open in places. And I mean, yeah, once…
““You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, […] but you do have some say in who hurts you.” — Augustus Waters – The Fault in Our Stars – Page 313 “My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.” — Augustus Waters – The Fault in Our Stars – Page…
Chapter 14 “Seventeen is an inconvenient time to be in love.” — “Chapter 14.” If I Stay (Page 99) “I had broken through some invisible barrier and could finally play the pieces like I heard them being played in my head, and the result had been something transcendent: the mental and physical, the technical and…
Collected quotes from the Gayle Forman book, “Where She Went.”
Best of My love for science doesn’t preclude my faith. For me, science is another language we use to talk about the same miracles that faith talks about. — “WWN Double-D?” Sense8 In this country, sometimes the only place you can find a brave and honest woman is in prison. — “WWN Double-D?” Sense8 Our…
Best Of “I have prayed to God over and over and where there once was his voice, the warmth of how love, there is now only cold silence. […] Without him, without the sign of his love, I am worse than dead.” — “No Sun on the Horizon.” Scandal “You’re running like you are being…
“Real, and uncensored, aren’t exactly the same thing.” — Hunter – “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car.” Red Band Society “I can handle harsh, what I can’t handle is condescending and rude.” — “There’s No Place Like Homecoming.” Red Band Society “Luck isn’t getting what you want, it’s surviving what you don’t want.”…
Season 4 Treatments do not mean a cure. — “The Redesign of Natural Objects.” Orphan Black Season 1 “Whenever somebody talks about the future I always say ‘show, don’t tell.’” — “Variations Under Domestication.” Orphan Black “Count your blessings, then move on to your worries.” — “Unconscious Selection.” Orphan Black“
Best Of “Do you know what it means when there ain’t nobody out there punishing the evil doers? It means there ain’t nobody giving out prizes for the good ones, neither.” — “Fool Me Once.“ Orange is the New Black “You gotta hit rock bottom before you know which direction to go in.” — “WAC…
Best of Is any of it real? […] Synthetic emotions in the form of pills, psychological warfare in the form of advertising, mind-altering chemicals in the form of food, brainwashing seminars in the form of media, controlled isolated bubbles in the form of social networks. Real? You want to talk about reality? We haven’t lived…
Collected quotes from the Monogatari series.
Best Of “I never got to be that. Dumb, maybe, but never a kid. They called me ‘The Little Grown-Up.’ I was so proud of that, being good and following the rules. Anything to be the teacher’s pet. But then you grow up and there’s no teacher to please, just some idea of what people…
Best Of “The pain you feel isn’t because of what you are, it’s the life you’ve had. But life can change, you can become better.” — “Episode 7.” Humans
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