"Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling nothing. It's very easy to have conversations when you're sitting there feeling nothing, to talk about the weather or what you had for lunch, to Instagram what you had for lunch. We're all suffering from trauma. This world is so crazy. How do we feel safe here? I think that's the question everybody's asking, "What do I need to do to feel safe? Like I'm okay?" I don't think there's anything wrong with that."

-- Ottessa Moshfegh

#Running Quotes #Crazy Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.”

Source : John G. Miller (2004). “QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life”, p.55, Penguin
“You see in the photograph what you are.”
“The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.”
“Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.”
“Beer ... a high and mighty liquor.”
“While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.”
“Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1784). “Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes”, p.1206
“Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.”

Source : George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.32, Booklassic

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