August 2010
100 posts
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Anyone who has watched an execution will tell you that it’s an anticlimax....
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
… love is a great beautifier.
– Louisa May Alcott , Little Women (via misswallflower)
July 2010
119 posts
Maybe the only thing that kept them alive was hope, the only thing that kept the...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
Is it any wonder we all crave the happy endings to the dark things in our lives?...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
Ecstasy is hard to describe. It’s like falling softly into a pool of crystal...
– Ellen Hopkins, Crank (via megannjanel) (via happythings)
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‘Life’s not fair,’ I said. But those weren’t my words....
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
But holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn’t make...
– Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby (via fearlessfight) (via simpleserendipities)
When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books.
– Looking for Alaska, John Green (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via ladychristinadesouza)
You are a unique and magnificent human being. Of all the billions of people on...
– Rhonda Byrne, The Secret (via sketchesandmixtapes)
I realized poverty was not an abstract concept, that sometimes people just...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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I’ll tell you something about myself. I can get my head turned by a...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
In New York City, you can never be alone, there’s always someone around....
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
You know that feeling you get when you step into someone’s aura and you...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say...
– Emil Cioran: The New Gods (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
We are changed by the things we experience. The big things, the small things...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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Freedom, I’d have to say, is probably the most important thing to me, more...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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Everyone,
I want to know what you guys want me to post, what books that you would recommend reading, etc.
Some classical literature.
Something thought-provoking.
Something everyone should read before they die.
Something worthwhile.
Something you love.
Please leave me a title/list in my ask, I would appreciate it very much.
Have a lovely day/evening! :)
Think about it. Think about the sudden events that have affected your life. With...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
It’s a little-known fact, but parents are like superheroes. With just a...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
When someone has invested in your well-being, like your parents, for example,...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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You’re driving on the highway and an eighteen-wheeler in front of you...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
The truth is always held up as this Holy Grail, the thing for which all must be...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
How you were raised is part of the big picture. It’s one important factor...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
I wasn’t certain of anything. I felt like a kite with it’s line cut;...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
Through the compromised windshield of my memory, I saw things that I...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
Choices. We were back to that, the things that determine the course of your...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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Don’t we reveal ourselves slowly, in parts, to the people we are starting...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
You know how it goes. I guess I do; I guess most of us have been there at one...
– Lida Unger, Beautiful Lies
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For what other reason might we cling to objects, old photographs, tarnished...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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When you start to really know someone, all their physical characteristics start...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
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You feel the chemistry, you know. It’s that little jolt that lets you know...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
It’s funny when you meet someone who you think is so different from you...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
We don’t have control, we have choices. The little ones, the big ones,...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
I had that nightmare feeling again, that moment where you look at things around...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
It is not the strongest among us who survive. Nor is it the most intelligent. It...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
There was no hiding beneath this light. Every flaw, every imperfection would be...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies
After all, beneath the surface of it, isn’t that what we’re all...
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies