Furious, have completely snapped
That one’s a warrior
They say
A fucking warrior princess
Look at that blood run down her face
Her knuckles are white
And her eyes a hell-spent blue
Everything screams to me
Pulling out my hair
Roaring at this world
Challenging the very sun
To come out and face me
Everything pushes me
To seek vengeance
For the pain of a lifetime
I know, I know, I know
The red dress distressed
Poison that kills me slowly
And does no harm to those who
We wish to affect
So my stubborn, extreme ways
Shall push me to realize
All he has really lost
Which is that I’ll be so determined
To succeed
I’ll learn to love
Everything me
And find someone
Who does the same
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"Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something, said Kadife. Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything."
--Snow by Orhan Pamuk
"It feels like he's taken your heart, doesn't it"
Della Lee finally said. "Like he's reached in and pulled it from you. And I bet he smiles like he doesn't know, like he doesn't know he's holding your heart in his hand, and you're dying from him."
- Sarah Addison Allen, 'The Sugar Queen'
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-Harold Lokes
"It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round or scamble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen"
— D.H. Lawrence (Lady Chatterley's Lover)
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
— Khalil Gibran
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.
Joanna Field
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The heart bleed longest, and but heal to wear that which disfigures it.
Lord Byron
"He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar."
"You fight your superficiality, your shallowness, so as to try to come at people without unreal expectations, without an overload of bias or hope or arrogance, as untanklike as you can be, sans cannon and machine guns and steel plating half a foot thick; you come at them unmenacingly on your own ten toes You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion. ... The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you. "
— Philip Roth
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