“I Am Running Away But I Prefer To Call It A Strategic Retreat.”

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“I do not know how long regret lived in our house before it finally evicted us.”

— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink 

“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”

— Doc Luben, “14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes”

“I most always smile out of spite. I sometimes stay alive out of spite.”

— Dave Harris, "To The Extent X Body Including Its Fists Constitute ‘Weapons’“

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.

F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)

“The sad truth is that the truth is sad.”

— Lemony Snicket // The Carnivorous Carnival

There’s no way I would let her die, but I wonder how far I would go to force her to live.

John Ratz, “Love in a Time of Desperation”

Congratulations to John Ratz on topping 100,000 views on this remarkable poem!

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…Anything worth dying for … is certainly worth living for.

Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (via the-book-diaries)

You think you are the greatest sufferer in the world?

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (via the-book-diaries)

— Charles Bukowski