Isn’t Giving Up Allowed Sometimes? Isn’t It Okay To Say, ‘This Really Hurts, So I’m Going To

SAMUEL BECKETT

To do? I don’t want to do anything. I want to be everything.

Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (via the-book-diaries)

“I can move everything but on.”

— Omar Holmon, “Precious Little Life”

We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)

“It is so hard to leave, until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.”

— John Green, Paper Towns (via the-book-diaries)

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

(Charles Bukowski)

“The most important thing you do everyday you live is deciding not to kill yourself.”

— Albert Camus

“Life just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can’t be hurt ever any more. That’s the last and worst thing it does.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned