#complicate

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#complicated #courage #life #master-harold #master-harold-and-the-boys

You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#loved #relationships #love

The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269). ↗

— Marvin Gaye

#david-ritz #divided-soul #hate #janis-hunter #love

And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#complicated #deed #evil #good #labels

You’re a teenager. It’s all complicated. ↗

— Jenny B. Jones

#growing-up #teenager #teenagers

The most complicated skill is to be simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated. ↗

— James Brown

#going #i #joining #know #play

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#bureaucrats #city #city government #complicated #condition

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#complicated things #saying #simple #simple way #style

Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face. ↗

— Bill Condon

#complicated #complicated thing #face #fit #how