"I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them."

-- Richard Russo

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Then I break a glass and I slit my very innermost thigh so that I can pretend that I'm menstru--- well, unavailable.”
“Is she going to, or has she done it? Has it happened? What is the story here?”
“I wasn't sure what I was getting into when I signed on to work with a wrestler.”
“I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.”
“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”

Source : Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Boy on Cinnamon Street”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.
“I have learned things in the dark that I could never have learned in the light, things that have saved my life over and over again, so that there is really only one logical conclusion. I need darkness as much as I need light.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Apr 13, 2016
“A Libyan rebel has admitted to killing Moammar Gadhafi. He said he shot Gadhafi twice in the temple, to which Michele Bachmann said, "I didn't even know the guy was Jewish.”
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