You’ll Understand Why Storms Are Named After People.

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“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”

— David Foster Wallace

But never have I been a calm blue sea. I have always been a storm.

Stevie Nicks, Storms (via music-and-quotes)

“There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Marie Howe, from “Watching Television”, What the Living Do

“First we feel. Then we fall.” - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

At the end of a relationship, it is the one who is not in love that makes the tender speeches.

Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (via the-book-diaries)

And, finally, [Vetinari] kept Leonard around because the man was easy to talk to. He never understood what Lord Vetinari was talking about, he had a world view about as complex as that of a concussed duckling and, above all, never really paid attention. This made him an excellent confidant. After all, when you seek advice from someone it’s certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

- Terry Pratchett, Jingo

“Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bitter-sweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.”

— Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (via the-book-diaries)