#lon

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage. ↗

— Julie Metz

#marriage #marriage

There’s little back roads and little towns sometimes I never heard of them. I start to expect the gas station attendants to know me when I arrive. I get excited that I’ve been there before. I want them to welcome me. I’m disappointed when they don’t. Something that I don’t want to be true starts lookin’ like it’s al that’s true only I don’t know what it is. No. No. I need my marriage. I come here to tell you. I got to stay married. I’m lost without her. ↗

— David Rabe

#loneliness #phil #marriage

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving

This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death? ↗

— Roman Payne

#barcelona #beauty #beauty-is-truth #feminity #girls

You can’t be the best all the time. But that’s what clones are for—to be you while you sleep. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#sleep #change

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America? ↗

— John Updike

#angstrom #inspirational #isolation #loneliness #outside

يمكنك أن تصبح وحيدًا وتمضي قدمًا في حياتك غاضبًا على العالم أجمع ؛ يمكنك أن تسنشيط غضبًا إلى أن يأتي اليوم الذي تقتل فيه زملاءك . أو يمكنك إيجاد مخرجًا لحبك حيث سيُقدر حبك وتكون محبوبًا بالمقابل ↗

— Jodee Blanco

#love #inspirational

(Angelus) "Now that's everything, huh? No weapons... No friends...No hope. Take all that away... and what's left?" Buffy: "Me. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#buffy-the-vampire-slayer #confidence #independence #inspirational #spirit

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#man-s-heart #men #sad #violence #women

Hindi para sa tamad ang pagsusulat dahil pag binisita ka ng idea, gana o inspirasyon, kailangan mong itigil LAHAT ng ginagawa mo para lang di masayang ang pagkakataon. Walang “sandali lang” o “teka muna”. Dahil pag lumagpas ang maikling panahong yon, kahit mag-umpog ka ng ulo sa pader mahihirapan ka nang maghabol. ↗

— Bob Ong Stainless Longganisa

#stainless-longganisa #writing-advice #inspirational