November 2010
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“‘Live each day as if it’s your last’, that was the conventional advice, but...”
– One Day by David Nicholls (via littleredrose)(via magicisfree)
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“People aren’t built to switch on and off like water faucets.”
– Stephen Schwartz, Working (the musical)
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“When you start to know someone, all their physical characteristics start to...”
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via kwocfam, kari-shma) (via magicisfree)
I’m 100% sure that this was stolen off of ransombookquotes. This book was fairly new when I read it. Nice tumblr users, nice. Don’t give credit.
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October 2010
27 posts
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“We don’t do anything, we’re conditioned by our culture. And...”
– Gabriel, ”The Body”
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“Something is wrong, very wrong, when a single person in good health, a person...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“But this fact sustains me only in the way that, say, the prospect of heaven...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“What you see—-highways, parking lots, stores—-is all there is, or...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“‘The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“I leave. I don’t walk out, I just leave. I don’t finish my side work...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“Picture a fat person’s hell, and I don’t mean a place with no food....”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“Customers are in fact the major obstacle to the smooth transformation of...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“It is our job as servers to assemble the salads and desserts, pour the...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“They don’t cut you no slack. You give and you give and they take.”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“Someone ought to do the old-fashioned kind of journalism—-you know, go out...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed
“Yes, I do think there is evil. But it is very rare. It is as rare as true...”
– Clay, David Almond (via consideritclassy)
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“If you can’t ride, can you fall?”
“I suppose anyone can fall,” said Shasta.
“I...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Horse And His Boy (via bntg)(via booksniffer)
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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in...”
– Joseph Conrad
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“Now you see, why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows....”
– Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club | Submitted by: Andy (via quote-book)
“too stupid to live. that’s what frida said they called the heroines of her books who made choices that put their own lives at risk. and those heroines aren’t just in books, either. they’re in horror movies, too. like when the heroine of the movie hears a noise in the basement and thinks to herself that she had just better go check it out. even though all the electricity in the house has...
