#lost

She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#love

Smartass Disciple: Master, do you really believe in the second chance? Master of Stupidity: That supports the basis of lost-then-found concept. ↗

— Toba Beta

#humor #lost-then-found #philosophy #second-chance #humor

What's love if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get back once lost? What's hate if not the thing you'll do anything and everything to get rid of once found? ↗

— Brian Celio

#back #everything #found #get #hate

From now on when a boy starts telling me about his lost loves I am going to run in the opposite direction screaming loudly... Somehow I bring out such confidences, and I'm pretty sick of hearing about Bobbe or Dorothy or P.K. or Liota. God damn them all. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#lost-loves #humor

I pause in my movements and feel extremely sad, I am heading to Sara’s because I no longer have a home, because home is where the heart is and I am not sure where my heart is any more. ↗

— Lindsey Shipley from What I thought was the End

#lost-love #love

We lose our soul, to find our life. ↗

— Joanne Crisner

#inspirational #loss #lost #inspirational

...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words... ↗

— John Geddes

#love-lost #poetry-quote #understanding #wisdom #words

What could go wrong...Doing some stupid impulsive thing that cause the death of drowthers was practically a family tradition. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#orson-scott-card #the-lost-gate #death

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into that man, the boy whose gentle hand had comforted her childhood hurts, the boy whose frightened voice had cried out to her at the end of his life, as if he wondered why he had gotten lost inside himself, as if he realized that it was too, too late to get out again. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#death #greed #grief #growing-up #lost

Shut up, me,” Leo said aloud. “What?” Piper asked. “Nothing,” he said. “Long night. I think I’m hallucinating. It’s cool.” Sitting in front, Leo couldn’t see their faces, but he assumed from their silence that his friends were not pleased to have a sleepless, hallucinating dragon driver. “Just joking.” Leo decided it might be good to change the subject. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#leo #lost-hero #piper #change