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My name is Jessie & this is my blog. I live just outside of Kansas City. I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
My name is Jessie & this is my blog.
I live just outside of Kansas City.
I rant about all kinds of things, like design, books, art, poetry, music, true crime & much more.
Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.
— Vincent van Gogh
Also, he often went back to places he had been at earlier times in his life, just to see if the places would seem the same. In most cases, because he himself had changed, the places did not seem exactly as he remembered them, but there were exceptions.
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon
I've seen the nations rise and fall
I've heard their stories, heard them all
But love's the only engine of survival
Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold:
It's over, it ain't going
Any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future:
It is murder
She did not know she was drunk, drunk with fatigue and whisky. She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and no weariness and her brain saw things with an inhuman clarity.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
— Winston Churchill
Whoever said that loss gets easier with time was a liar. Here's what really happens: The spaces between the times you miss them grow longer. Then, when you do remember to miss them again, it's still with a stabbing pain to the heart. And you have guilt. Guilt because it's been too long since you missed them last.
— Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, The 13th Sign
It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
For a moment, her heart stood still and then a queer fear, stronger than anxiety, stronger than grief, began to beat in her breast. It can’t be true, she thought vehemently, trying to push back the fear. Doctors make mistakes. I won’t think it’s true. I can’t let myself think it’s true. I’ll scream if I do. I must think of something else.
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.
— Joan Jett
nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.
— Charles Bukowski
“And when did he die?”
“Just after the impropriety was revealed. He was murdered, you see.”
“He was?” “
Yes.”
“Who murdered him?”
“I did.”
The only thing harder than seeing yourself grow old is seeing the people you’ve loved grow old.
— Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
He thought of himself as a single current in a deep river. He was separate and he was whole, all at the same time. It was a wonderful feeling.
— Michael Blake, Dances With Wolves
And ain’t that the point of life, after all? To feel yourself living it?
I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
— Robin Williams
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
— Lao Tzu
“Well,” she said fretfully, “if I said I was madly in love with you, I’d be lying and what’s more, you’d know it.”
Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language.
To Scarlett, he was still an enigma but an enigma about which she no longer bothered her head. She was convinced that nothing ever pleased him or ever would please him; that he either wanted something very badly and didn’t have it, or never had wanted anything and so didn’t care about anything.
This saddest time that has also been one of the happiest times in my life will pass. And I’ll be alone.
— Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
Lord have mercy on my rough & rowdy ways.
— The Head & The Heart, Down in the Valley
Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
— Leo Tolstoy
He was like a storm that hadn’t happened yet, a thought you weren’t quite thinking. A memory you didn’t have.
I would recognize you in total darkness, were you mute and I deaf. I would recognize you in another lifetime entirely, in different bodies, different times. And I would love you in all of this, until the very last star in the sky burnt out into oblivion.
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
But I'll see you in the sky above,
in the tall grass, in the ones I love,
you're gonna make me lonesome when you go.
— Bob Dylan, You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
— Ernest Hemingway
Life was not such a trial after all, he mused. It wasn’t easy, but then, how dull an experience it would be if it were so.
Several times in his life he had felt an intense desire to start over, to somehow turn back the clock of his life to a point where he might, if he were careful, avoid the many mistakes he had made the first time around.
— Larry McMurtry, Comanche Moon
I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
— Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
"But, Scarlett, you need kissing badly. That’s what’s wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
She took her pattern of life from men but she was not a masculine woman. She demanded the freedom to change, to evolve, to grow. She was not a feminist at all but struggling against the feminine side of herself in order to maintain her integrity as an individual.
— Anaïs Nin
All had suffered crushing misfortunes and had not been crushed. They had not been broken by the crash of empires, the machetes of revolting slaves, war, rebellion, proscription, confiscation. Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched. All of those shadowy folks whose blood flowed in her veins seemed to move quietly in the moonlit room.
'Of course I’m a fraud. The fact that I’m able to carry myself through life without being crushed beneath the psychological weight of being alive proves that I’m a con artist. Aren’t we all con artists?'
— Emily R. Austin, Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
i love dogs better than anything else on earth, next to cigarettes & a couple of people.
— Jo Ann Beards, The Boys of My Youth
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
— Anne Sexton
Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.
I imagined my hate as a flame racing along the dirt road until it licked at their door.
— Anna North, Outlawed
Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience and creation.